单词 | huron |
释义 | Huronn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a confederation of Northern Iroquoian peoples formerly living east of Georgian Bay, Ontario, with descendants now living mainly in Quebec and Oklahoma. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Iroquois peoples Mangoak1589 Iroquois1609 Susquehannock1612 Huron1648 Mingo1648 Meherrin1650 Iroquoian1687 Conestoga1699 Wyandot1748 neutral1854 1648 C. Raue Disc. Orientall Tongues 79 The Hurones..since the comming in of the English, Spaniards and French have learnt the Latine Alphabet. 1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. I. 43 The ancient Country of the Hurons [Fr. Hurons], the Outaouacts, and several other Nations. 1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. Pref. sig. A5 The substance of the Several Conferences I had in that Country with a certain Huron, whom the French called Rat. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints II. 650 The saint wrote earnestly to the general of the Society, desiring to be employed on a mission to the barbarous Hurons and Iroquois in Canada. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. iii. 40 Why did not the grand Frencher [sc. Montcalm]..bury the tomahawks of the Hurons? 1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. ix. 291 The Hurons of North America believe that the souls of the departed turn into turtle-doves. 1959 Listener 9 July 75/2 He [sc. the American writer] can always feel himself to be a noble savage, a Huron, confronted by the degenerate, corrupt, or over-sophisticated stock from which he sprang. 1973 Listener 25 Oct. 549/1 The Jesuits..negotiated with the Hurons and Iroquois, as they treated with the daimyos. 2005 Canad. Geographic Sept. 50/2 Portage-du-Fort was long a stopping place for the Hurons, Algonquins and later the Odawa, from whom the river got its name. 2. The extinct Iroquoian language of the Huron. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages Mohawk1754 Cherokee1761 Huron1776 Nottoway1830 Wyandot1837 Onondaga1887 Cayuga1933 Oneida1933 Tuscarora1933 1776 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies IV. xv. 14 Three original languages were spoken in Canada, the Algonquin, the Sioux, and the Huron [Fr. la huronne]. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 138 The Nattick, like the Huron, in the north-western parts of this continent, must have been the most prevailing one [sc. language] in this region. 1887 Trans. & Proc. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 2 166 The author would seem to intend it [sc. the statement] should be applied, to the Huron; for..the mother-tongue of the Huron-Iroquois branch, the Old Huron, does preserve in part the labials. 1935 F. Talbot Saint among Savages xi. 285 He knew enough of Huron and Iroquois to converse in the dialect of these more southernly peoples. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 123/2 Laurentian..was, however, closely related to Huron, also now extinct, once spoken in central Ontario between lakes Ontario and Huron. 2004 Anthropol. Linguistics 46 367 He purposely selected place names that he knew came from well-documented Northern Iroquoian languages—Huron and Mohawk—for his investigation. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or relating to the Huron or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Iroquois peoples Mingo1661 Iroquois1666 Susquehannock1666 Seneca1684 Iroquoian1697 Meherrin1709 Huron1712 Onondaga1715 Mohawk1751 Oneida1760 Wyandot1780 1712 J. Dummer Let. to Friend in Country 8 They supply'd the Huron Indians with Arms. 1786 in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. (1793) 2 i. 125 The Huron, or Wyandot language having no affinity to the Shawanese, Delawares, and other nations. 1832 ‘M. Doyle’ Hints on Emigration to Upper Canada (ed. 2) 17 The soil in the Huron territory is a rich sandy loam. 1866 J. A. Meigs Observ. Cranial Forms Amer. Aborigines 24 The Huron crania belong partly to the Brachycephali, and partly to the Mesocephali. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Iroquoian family..includes, among others, the Huron (or Wyandot) language. 2003 M. Abley Spoken Here ix. 157 To converse with Huron people today, you need to use French. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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