单词 | algonquin |
释义 | Algonquinn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people living in Canada along the Ottawa River and its tributaries; (also) a member of any of several groupings of this and related peoples with varying degrees of inclusiveness. Also more generally: a member of an Algonquian-speaking people (see Algonquian n. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > members of principal groups Algonquin1667 Sioux1703 Athabaskan1846 Algonquian1890 Macro-Algonquian1965 the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Powhatan1608 Mohicanc1614 Massachusett1616 Penobscot1624 Pequot1631 Narragansett1637 Nipmuc1637 Algonquin1667 Wampanoag1676 Minisink1694 Abenaki1698 Lenape1728 Maliseet1749 Munsee1756 Passamaquoddy1759 Micmac1760 Podunk1797 Algic1839 Virginia Algonquian1903 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 1021 Three Nations of Sauages were there assembled, that is to say, the Estechemins, Algonmequins, and Montagnez.] 1667 in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1853) III. 151 By our authority wee haue hindred ye Algonquins from making warre upon them [sc. the Dutch]. 1669 D. Abercromby Scolding No Scholarship 197 Witness the Conversions of the Japonians, Indians, Brasilians, Mexicans, Peruans, Canadas, Algonquins, and many other Savage Nations in America. 1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. II. xxv. 170 It is pretended that all the Algonquins and Abenaquis..practiced a kind of pyromancy. 1766 Hist. Acct. Exped. against Ohio Indians 69 Nipissins, Algonquins, living towards the heads of the Ottawa river. 1851 R. G. Latham Ethnol. Brit. Colonies vi. 257 To separate, not only Caribs from Algonkins, or Peruvians from Athabascans, but Peruvians from Caribs [etc.]. 1865 F. Parkman Champlain xii, in Pioneers of France in New World 347 This neighborhood was the seat of the principal Indian population of the [Ottawa] river, ancestors of the modern Ottawas... Usually called Algoumequins, or Algonquins, by Champlain and other early writers,—a name now always used in a generic sense to designate a large family of cognate tribes. 1982 R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. I. 192 Adam Dollard des Ormeaux.., with sixteen companions and forty-four Hurons and Algonkins, laid an ambush for some Iroquois at an abandoned fort on the Ottawa River. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples vii. 137 The Hurons valued the trade furs and leather that they received from the Algonquin, Nipissing, Ottawa, Ojibwa, and others who made their home in the Shield region. 2004 Women's Rev. Bks. 21 13/4 The Algonquins, including the Powhatans, didn't dress like Plains Indians. 2. The dialect of Ojibwa spoken by this people. Also more widely: = Algonquian n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian Algonquin1698 Algonquian1807 Algic1828 1698 tr. J. Marquette Discov. in Northern-Amer. in tr. L. Hennepin Continuation 333 in New Discov. in Amer. Their Language is also very different. However, it is a Dialect of the Algonquin, and therefore we were able to understand what they said. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. vi. 24 A sort of general Language, like what Lahontan calls the Algonkine. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) VI. xv. 439 Three original languages were spoken in Canada, the Algonquin, the Sioux, and the Huron. 1819 Trans. Hist. & Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 110 They all speak the Algonquin, a language..universally known for a thousand leagues round. 1851 H. R. Schoolcraft Hist. & Statist. Information Indian Tribes U.S. I. 306 Their language is pure Algonquin. 1949 J. Brodrick Procession Saints 199 She composed..a prayer book in Algonquin. 2005 M. Hoessle Under Three Flags iv. 55 The Illinois, who spoke Algonquin, described the people who lived along this unruly river as great hunters and boatmen. B. adj. Of or relating to the Algonquin or their language. Also more widely: = Algonquian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Massachusett1622 Pequot1634 Nipmuc1636 Mohican1637 Natick1677 Minisink1694 Algonquin1698 Passamaquoddy1726 Penobscot1727 Abenaki1746 Micmac1767 Maliseet1770 Munsee1779 Powhatan1785 Mashpee1809 Powhatanic1855 Virginia Algonquian1870 Wampanoag1948 Mashpee Wampanoag1977 1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 103 I saw there a large Dictionary and Grammar of the Algonquin Tongue, one of the Nations of the West-Indies. 1705 J. Harris Navigantium II. 909/2 [We] made towards them, crying out in the Iroquese and Algonquin Languages. 1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 47 Between Quebec and Montreal, there are also towards the Three Rivers, some of the Algonkin nation. 1845 H. R. Schoolcraft Onéota 171 The Algonquin tribes. 1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. Introd. p. xx Tribes speaking various Algonquin languages and dialects. 1884 C. G. Leland (title) The Algonquin legends of New England, or myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes. 1917 L. P. Kellogg Early Narr. Northwest 15 The Nipissing Indians were a tribe of Algonquin stock dwelling north of the lake..to which they gave their name. 1975 N. Frye in K. J. Laidler Preserving Canad. Heritage i. 16 The Algonquin worship of a Great Spirit. 2007 Independent 27 Mar. 26/3 The Europeans learnt the mysteries of the maple from the local Iroquois and Algonquin Indians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1667 |
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