单词 | arawakan |
释义 | Arawakann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a group of indigenous peoples inhabiting the Caribbean and northern South America. Cf. Arawak n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > Indians of South America Patagona1544 Mochica1581 Arawak1596 Arawakan1596 Tapuia1613 Quechua1688 Galibi1698 Abipon1717 Pehuenche1756 Patagonian1767 Amazonian Indian1769 Warao1769 Tehuelche1774 Abiponian1786 two-finger1796 Guarani1797 Shipibo1805 Araucanian1809 Tupinamba1810 Muisca1814 Pampas Indian1820 Guaycuru1822 Lengua1822 Fuegian1825 Wapishana1836 Wai Wai1840 Yucatec1843 Tupi1845 Tupi-Guarani1850 Amazonian1858 Aymara1860 Jivaro1862 Lokono1868 Quechuan1871 Yucatecan1871 Yunca1871 Mapuche1876 Chibcha1877 Ona1884 Yahgan1884 Terena1891 Xavante1904 urubu1948 Saramaccan1959 Yanomamö1965 Mochican1967 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 39 This Arwacan promised to bring me into the great riuer of Orenoque. 1758 J. Barrow Naval Hist. Great Brit. I. ii. 188 They anchored under the island of Mocha, where they run a great risk of suffering from the Arawcans. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 322/2 The Arawakans were once numerous. 2013 Civilisations 61 22 The Arawakans of the Rio Negro and Guyana regions. 2. The Arawak language spoken by Lokono peoples; (also) a South American language family comprising a number of languages spoken across South America and the Caribbean, including Lokono, Taino, Wapishana, Wayuu, and Yucuna; = Arawak n. 2.The term Arawak is now preferred.The term Arawakan has also been used to refer to a posited macro-grouping of several language families, including Arawak (see e.g. quot. 1966). This macro-grouping is unsubstantiated and now discredited. ΚΠ 1861 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1859–61 7 149 (table) Changes of the word head...Wa. SSijehe. Arawackan, S. A. [= South America]. 1875 Amer. Cycl. X. 152/1 Caribbean languages: Caribbean and Arrawakan. 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 431 Arawakan continued to be used only by the females and Carib by the males. 1966 Amer. Anthropologist 68 1579 The most recent attempt at subgrouping Arawakan. 1993 M. J. Plotkin Tales Shaman's Apprentice i. 11 Several major language groups, including Arawakan, Panoan, Tukanoan, Tupi-Guarani, and Carib. B. adj. Of or relating to Arawak peoples, the Arawak language of the Lokono, or the Arawak language family; = Arawak adj.For quot. 1966 and the discredited macro-grouping to which it refers see the note at sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [adjective] > other peoples of the West Indies Arawakan1596 Akawaio1769 Taino1836 the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > Indians of South America Arawakan1596 Patagonian?1609 Arawak1625 Abiponian1786 Araucanian1809 Quechua1811 Muisca1814 Fuegian1825 Wapishana1836 Wai Wai1840 Pehuenche1843 Quechuan1862 Incarial1863 Mochica1871 Yucatecan1871 Shipibo1875 Yucatec1875 Incaean1880 Incan1885 Guaycuru1891 Jivaroan1902 Tehuelchian1902 Tupian1902 Xavante1904 Incarian1909 Abipon1912 Incaic1926 Lokono1953 Mochican1953 Saramaccan1959 Mapuche1961 Yahgan1961 Yanomamö1967 urubu1983 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 51 This Arwacan Pilot with the rest, fearing that we would haue eaten them..perswaded all the nations, that we were men eaters, and Canibals. 1899 A. H. Keane Man Past & Present xi. 417 The Arawakan groups of Venezuela and surrounding lands. 1966 Amer. Anthropologist 68 1580 Available data from Arawakan languages are mainly confined to unphonemicized word-lists. 1967 Caribbean Q. Sept. 45 Bimitti is the Arawakan term and tukusi its Carib counterpart. 2008 H. Courtz Carib Gram. & Dict. 1 Black Carib, an Arawakan language which shows signs of past contacts with speakers of Carib. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1596 |
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