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单词 ahousaht
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Ahousahtadj.n.

Brit. /əˈhaʊsət/, U.S. /əˈhaʊsət/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Ahousahts.
Forms: 1700s–1800s Ahouset, 1800s Ahosett, 1800s Ahowartz (plural), 1800s Ah-owz-art, 1800s Ah-ow-zert, 1800s– Ahousaht, 1800s– Ahousat.
Origin: A borrowing from Nootka. Etymon: Nootka ʕaaḥuusʔatḥ.
Etymology: < Nootka ʕaaḥuusʔatḥ, self-designation, literally ‘people of Ahous’ (a place on Vargas Island, off Vancouver Island).
A. adj.
Of, belonging to, or designating the Ahousaht, the principal group of Nuu-chah-nulth (see Nuu-chah-nulth n.) living around Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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1791 J. Hoskins Narr. 16 Mar. in F. W. Howay Voy. Columbia to Northwest Coast (1941) 252 We were visited today by some few of the natives from the Ahouset tribe.
1868 G. M. Sproat Scenes & Stud. Savage Life xx. 196 A trading schooner..had been decoyed near the shore by Cap-chah, an Ahousaht chief.
1868 G. M. Sproat Scenes & Stud. Savage Life xx. 202 My Ahousaht informants told these particulars to me.
1902 Ann. Rept. Dept. Indian Affairs (Canada) 266 There are a bright and healthy lot of children in the Ahousaht tribe.
1951 P. Drucker Northern & Central Nootkan Tribes 49 One of the last of the Ahousat whalers.
2009 M. R. Atleo in A. de Oliveira Decolonising Indigenous Rights vii. 136 I was amazed at the different way that Ahousaht people thought and acted and understood the world.
B. n.
A member of this group.
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1789 R. Haswell 1st Log in F. W. Howay Voy. Columbia to Northwest Coast (1941) 67 The natives were onboard as usual one a Chief from the Village A'howset.]
1803 J. Jewitt Jrnl. 28 Nov. (1807) 12 Clear weather. Invited to eat whale's blubber. Natives fishing. Arrived a canoe from Ah-ow-zerts with skins.
1873 Rep. Supt. Indian Affairs Brit. Columbia 1872–3 4 Admiral Denman, proceeded to Klaoquhat Sound to demand the murderers from their tribe, the Ahousahts.
1899 Acts & Proc. Gen. Assembly Presbyterian Church Canada 178 Formerly the Ahousahts were noted far and wide for gambling. They have now decided unanimously to prohibit all gambling.
1951 P. Drucker Northern & Central Nootkan Tribes 50 Before these men began whaling, the art had been neglected for several generations by the Ahousat.
1988 Canad. Encycl. I. 40/1 The Ahousaht..conquers the much larger Otosaht tribe.
2004 A. Struthers in J. Little Way out There (2006) 127 The Ahousahts had fallen upon hard times; their tribe was so small they used the same word for ‘brother’ and ‘cousin’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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