单词 | guanche |
释义 | Guanchen. One of the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands, who were absorbed by the Spanish on their conquest of the islands in the fifteenth century. Also, the language of the Guanches. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Spain > Canaries > indigenous inhabitant Guanche1583 the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Berber Shilha1713 Amazigh1826 Kabyle1882 Tuareg1882 Tamashek1885 Tunisian1902 Libyan1937 Guanche1939 1583 T. Nicols Pleasant Descr. Ilands of Canaria sig. Cijv These people were called Guanches, by natural name they spake another language cleane contrarie to the Canarians. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 81/1 The inhabitants are chiefly Spaniards; though there are some of the first people remaining, whom they call Guanches, who are somewhat civilized by their intercourse with the Spaniards. 1814 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. I. 117 Santa Cruz, the Annaza of the Guanches, is a neat town, with a population of 8000 souls. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 796/1 Many of the Guanches fell in opposing the Spanish invasion. 1884 tr. de Candolle's Orig. Cultiv. Plants 320 It is not known whether the Guanchos (the Berber people of the Canaries) knew the bean. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. i. 19 In times of drought the Guanches of Teneriffe led their sheep to sacred ground. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 366 To these [dialects] must be added the Guanche of the Canary Islands, which became extinct in the seventeenth century. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1583 |
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