Angamin.adj.
/anˈɡɑːmi/, U.S. /ænˈɡɑmi/ More fully Angami Naga.
A. n.
1. A member of a Naga people inhabiting the state of Nagaland in north-eastern India.
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1840 E. R. Grange in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 9 ii. 963 Beyond the Doyang, other large tribes of Nagas exist; Lotah, Nemsang, &c. &c. these tribes..are under their respective chiefs, whose authority they acknowledge, which is contrary to the system of the Thuggeemah (Dewan) and Angamees.
1858 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 2 378 Augury is a general practice of the Himalaic tribes. The Goras and the Miri consult the entrails..of the sacrificial animals. The Angami have recourse to eggs.
2013 Telegraph (India) (Nexis) 22 Feb. Chief minister Neiphiu Rio is an Angami.
2. The Tibeto-Burman language of the Angami.
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1855 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 9 17 In Angami ma appears to be combined with the liquid plural.
1874 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 3 481 A village is Arame in Angami Naga.
1913 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Apr. 322 The substitution of a for i can be traced in other words in Angami.
2012 V. Joshi Matter of Belief i. 44 Although there is some village-wise variation, three main dialects of Angami are recognized.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Angami or their language.
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1840 E. R. Grange in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 9 ii. 962 The villages at the northern base of the great range are an admixture of the Angamee and Dewan tribes.
1926 Illustr. London News 24 Apr. 262/2 The district is administered by a Deputy Commissioner stationed at Kohima, in Angami territory.
1986 Man in India 66 251 His [sc. Razhukhrie Sekhose's] work on Angami grammar and Angami folklore are praiseworthy.
2011 Indian Anthropologist 41 63 The strongest argument for not giving inheritance rights to Angami women came in the name of the customary law.
Compounds
Angami Naga n. and adj. [see Naga n.3; compare Angami àŋgāmī nâgā] (a) n. a member of a Naga people inhabiting the state of Nagaland in north-eastern India; the Tibeto-Burman language of the Angami Nagas; = Angami n.; (b) adj. of or relating to the Angami Nagas or their language; = Angami adj.
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1841 W. Robinson Descr. Acct. Asam 388 The country of the Angami Nagas had, previous to Mr. Grange's expedition, been visited by Captains Jenkins, Pemberton, and Gordon.
1851 N. Brown in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 2 157 For the first column of Angami Naga, [I am indebted] to a vocabulary prepared by an intelligent native, under the direction of Capt. J. Butler, of Nowgong.
1873 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) IV. 6/1 Poplongmaee being the most southern Angami Naga village within the district.
1951 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 7 75 If the Angami Naga are presumed..to be responsible for the domestication and diffusion of Colocasia, a lower threshold is placed on the date at which this could have taken place.
2011 Bendangjungshi Confessing Christ in Naga Context i. 33 Following the collapse of the Angami Naga resistance, the British gradually installed military outposts in Naga villages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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