Algonquiann.adj.

Brit.

/alˈɡɒŋk(w)ɪən/, U.S.

/ælˈɡɑŋk(w)iən/

Inflections: Plural Algonquians, unchanged;

Forms: 1800s– Algonquian, 1800s– Algonkian.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Algonquin n., -an suffix.

Etymology: < Algonqui- (in Algonquin n.) + -an suffix; compare -ian suffix.In geological use (compare senses A. 2 and B. 2) so called after some well-studied rock beds of this period in the region between Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, and Hudson Bay, an area inhabited by Algonquian peoples.

A. n.

a. A North American Indian language family comprising a number of languages spoken across Canada and the northern United States, including Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Delaware; a language of this family.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian

Algonquin1698

Algonquian1807

Algic1828

1807 in Minnesota Hist. Bull. (1923) 5 39 Agebois is the language spoken here and is the same in origin with the Algonquian from which it differs but little.

1884 Science 26 Sept. 318/1 Thus we should have Eskimoan, Shoshonean, Algonkian, Iroquoian, Pawneean, and the like, as the names of different stocks.

1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Kootenayan, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonkian, are spoken also in the United States.

1965 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin in Anthropol. Linguistics 7 129 The Macro-Algonquian phylum includes two language families (Algonquian and Muskogean) and many language isolates.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways x. iv. 411 Before I crossed the Wabash (Algonquian for ‘white shining’), I filled the gas tank.

2010 L. Klein Cate of Lost Colony xxviii. 207 My halting efforts to speak Algonkian had some success.

b. A member of any of the peoples speaking such languages. Cf. Algonquin n. 1.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > members of principal groups

Algonquin1667

Sioux1703

Athabaskan1846

Algonquian1890

Macro-Algonquian1965

1890 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1888 550 The bow may have been borrowed from more northern tribes, the Algonquians are said to use it.

1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 40/1 The Central Algonquians are tall.

1971 R. M. Underhill Red Man's Amer. (rev. ed.) v. 70 The Algonkian fought in the same way that their enemies fought.

1994 E. S. Rogers in E. S. Rogers & D. B. Smith Aboriginal Ont. vii. 138 The Algonquians travelled frequently in search of country game and furs.

2. In form Algonkian. Geology. With the: the Proterozoic eon or the rocks collectively dating from this time, esp. in North America. Cf. sense B. 2. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > Pre-Cambrian > Proterozoic

Algonquian1890

Proterozoic1893

1890 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1 238 When the whole world is taken into account, it is possible, perhaps probable, that the Algonkian and Archean will be found to be divisible only by a somewhat arbitrary line.

1900 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1899–1900 12 196 Lying unconformably upon the eroded surface of the Algonkian is a series of calcareous sandstones, shales and limestone breccias.

1937 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 45 674 The division between the Archean and the Algonkian (Archeozoic and Proterozoic).

1991 G. B. Dalrymple Age of Earth ii. 65 For the Precambrian, Walcott estimated that the Algonkian was about equivalent to the Paleozoic, and that 10 Ma was a fair..estimate for the Archean.

B. adj.

1. Of or relating to Algonquian (sense A. 1a), or any of the languages within it. Also: designating any or all of the peoples speaking such languages; of or relating to such peoples.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [adjective] > members of principal groups

Sioux1761

Athabaskan1844

Algonquian1883

1883 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 2 128 The several tribes constituting the Algonkian linguistic stock.

1891 J. C. Pilling (title) Bibliography of the Algonquian languages.

1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 43/1 The present number of the Algonquian family is about 90,000.

1919 Dial 23 Aug. 163/1 There is an Algonquian word which an ethnologist would translate accurately as Dawn.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 135 There are some Algonquian Indians still living along the New England coast.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 17/2 Algonquian languages seem to be distantly related to the extinct Wiyot and the dying Yurok of north-western Canada.

2003 Whispering Wind May 17/1 In the Algonquian tradition there is a story about our culture-hero being called back to the sky-world by Kici-Manitou.

2. In form Algonkian. Geology. Designating the Proterozoic eon, esp. in North America; of or relating to this period.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > pre-Cambrian > proterozoic

Keweenawan1876

Algonquian1889

1889 C. D. Walcott in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 139 384 At present I draw the basal line of the Cambrian in Utah and Nevada, at the bottom of the band of arenaceous shale carrying the Olenellus fauna. This refers the quartzites and siliceous shales of the Wasatch and similar sections..to the Algonkian Period.

1890 10th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1888–9: Pt. 1 20 At a recent conference of geologists..it was decided to make but one period of the Agnotozoic, and the name ‘Algonkian’ was chosen to designate that period.

1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth v. 80 These are probably of Algonkian age; that is, they are some of the earliest rocks in which life has been recognized.

1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 275 The conclusions above outlined are based primarily on the absence of a marine fauna in Algonkian rocks.

2007 Rangeland Ecol. & Managem. 60 633/2 Soils were shallow (20–40 cm) Entisols from AB belt series Algonkian rocks.

Compounds

Algonquian-speaking adj.

ΚΠ

1891 J. C. Pilling Bibliogr. Algonquian Langs. Pref. p. iii The Algonquian speaking peoples.

2007 J. M. Volo & D. D. Volo Family Life in Native Amer. ii. 30 The Algonquian-speaking Adirondacks of the St. Lawrence Valley.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	algonquian
释义	Algonquiann.adj. Brit. /alˈɡɒŋk(w)ɪən/, U.S. /ælˈɡɑŋk(w)iən/ Inflections: Plural Algonquians, unchanged; Forms: 1800s– Algonquian, 1800s– Algonkian. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Algonquin n., -an suffix. Etymology: < Algonqui- (in Algonquin n.) + -an suffix; compare -ian suffix.In geological use (compare senses A. 2 and B. 2) so called after some well-studied rock beds of this period in the region between Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, and Hudson Bay, an area inhabited by Algonquian peoples. A. n. 1. a. A North American Indian language family comprising a number of languages spoken across Canada and the northern United States, including Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Delaware; a language of this family. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian Algonquin1698 Algonquian1807 Algic1828 1807 in Minnesota Hist. Bull. (1923) 5 39 Agebois is the language spoken here and is the same in origin with the Algonquian from which it differs but little. 1884 Science 26 Sept. 318/1 Thus we should have Eskimoan, Shoshonean, Algonkian, Iroquoian, Pawneean, and the like, as the names of different stocks. 1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Kootenayan, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonkian, are spoken also in the United States. 1965 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin in Anthropol. Linguistics 7 129 The Macro-Algonquian phylum includes two language families (Algonquian and Muskogean) and many language isolates. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways x. iv. 411 Before I crossed the Wabash (Algonquian for ‘white shining’), I filled the gas tank. 2010 L. Klein Cate of Lost Colony xxviii. 207 My halting efforts to speak Algonkian had some success. b. A member of any of the peoples speaking such languages. Cf. Algonquin n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > members of principal groups Algonquin1667 Sioux1703 Athabaskan1846 Algonquian1890 Macro-Algonquian1965 1890 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1888 550 The bow may have been borrowed from more northern tribes, the Algonquians are said to use it. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 40/1 The Central Algonquians are tall. 1971 R. M. Underhill Red Man's Amer. (rev. ed.) v. 70 The Algonkian fought in the same way that their enemies fought. 1994 E. S. Rogers in E. S. Rogers & D. B. Smith Aboriginal Ont. vii. 138 The Algonquians travelled frequently in search of country game and furs. 2. In form Algonkian. Geology. With the: the Proterozoic eon or the rocks collectively dating from this time, esp. in North America. Cf. sense B. 2. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > Pre-Cambrian > Proterozoic Algonquian1890 Proterozoic1893 1890 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1 238 When the whole world is taken into account, it is possible, perhaps probable, that the Algonkian and Archean will be found to be divisible only by a somewhat arbitrary line. 1900 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1899–1900 12 196 Lying unconformably upon the eroded surface of the Algonkian is a series of calcareous sandstones, shales and limestone breccias. 1937 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 45 674 The division between the Archean and the Algonkian (Archeozoic and Proterozoic). 1991 G. B. Dalrymple Age of Earth ii. 65 For the Precambrian, Walcott estimated that the Algonkian was about equivalent to the Paleozoic, and that 10 Ma was a fair..estimate for the Archean. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to Algonquian (sense A. 1a), or any of the languages within it. Also: designating any or all of the peoples speaking such languages; of or relating to such peoples. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [adjective] > members of principal groups Sioux1761 Athabaskan1844 Algonquian1883 1883 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 2 128 The several tribes constituting the Algonkian linguistic stock. 1891 J. C. Pilling (title) Bibliography of the Algonquian languages. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 43/1 The present number of the Algonquian family is about 90,000. 1919 Dial 23 Aug. 163/1 There is an Algonquian word which an ethnologist would translate accurately as Dawn. 1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 135 There are some Algonquian Indians still living along the New England coast. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 17/2 Algonquian languages seem to be distantly related to the extinct Wiyot and the dying Yurok of north-western Canada. 2003 Whispering Wind May 17/1 In the Algonquian tradition there is a story about our culture-hero being called back to the sky-world by Kici-Manitou. 2. In form Algonkian. Geology. Designating the Proterozoic eon, esp. in North America; of or relating to this period. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > pre-Cambrian > proterozoic Keweenawan1876 Algonquian1889 1889 C. D. Walcott in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 139 384 At present I draw the basal line of the Cambrian in Utah and Nevada, at the bottom of the band of arenaceous shale carrying the Olenellus fauna. This refers the quartzites and siliceous shales of the Wasatch and similar sections..to the Algonkian Period. 1890 10th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1888–9: Pt. 1 20 At a recent conference of geologists..it was decided to make but one period of the Agnotozoic, and the name ‘Algonkian’ was chosen to designate that period. 1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth v. 80 These are probably of Algonkian age; that is, they are some of the earliest rocks in which life has been recognized. 1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 275 The conclusions above outlined are based primarily on the absence of a marine fauna in Algonkian rocks. 2007 Rangeland Ecol. & Managem. 60 633/2 Soils were shallow (20–40 cm) Entisols from AB belt series Algonkian rocks. Compounds Algonquian-speaking adj. ΚΠ 1891 J. C. Pilling Bibliogr. Algonquian Langs. Pref. p. iii The Algonquian speaking peoples. 2007 J. M. Volo & D. D. Volo Family Life in Native Amer. ii. 30 The Algonquian-speaking Adirondacks of the St. Lawrence Valley. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1807
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