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Abipon, n. and a.|ˈæbɪpɒn|
Also Abipón, Abipone. Pl. unchanged or with -s.
[ad. Abipón, self-designation.]
a. A member of an extinct native S. American people formerly inhabiting the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay.
b. The extinct Guaycuruan language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1822S. Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer's Acct. Abipones I. 125 The equestrian nations remaining in Chaco, and still formidable to the Spaniards, are the Abipones,..and Oekakalots, Guaycurus, or Leguas. 1898D. G. Brinton in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. XXXVII. 184 (table) Guaycuru Dialects Mocovi,..Toba,..Mbaya,..Abipon,..Caduveo,..Quiniquinas,..Upper Tobas. 1912S. A. Lafone Quevedo Great Chanca Confederacy i. 6 Table II..serves to shew how intimately the Toba, Mocoví, Mbayá and Abipón tongues are related to each other. Ibid. iii. 9 The Abipón nation..claimed nobility for their head men. 1950J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. iii. 280 D'Orbigny (1839) insisted that the Mascoi were Guaicurú, like the Toba, but Lafone-Quevedo (1896–97) compared the vocabulary with Abipon with a negative conclusion. Brinton (1898a) found a few similarities with Chon. 1961W. Brandon Indians 56/1 Eastern neighbors of the Diaguita were the Guaicuruan hunters of the Chaco region, some of whom, notably the Abipon, developed striking parallels to the hunting tribes of the North American plains. 1995E. S. Miller Nurturing Doubt 105 Furlong knew..little about the Toba except that they had killed the Jesuits who sought to ‘pacify’ them. Thus, he loved the Abipon, long deceased, but considered the Toba a belligerent and treacherous people.
So Abiponian |æbɪˈpəʊnɪən| n. and a.
1788Encycl. Brit. I. 19/2 They are a strong and hardy race of people; which our author [sc. Dobrizhoffer] attributes to their marrying so late, an Abiponian seldom or never thinking of marriage till 30 years of age. 1822S. Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer's Acct. Abipones II. xvi. 160, I am going to treat compendiously of the Abiponian language. Ibid. 171 This is the extent of the Abiponian arithmetic. |