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单词 abenaki
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Abenakin.adj.

Brit. /ˌabəˈnaki/, /ˌɑːbəˈnɑːki/, U.S. /ˌæbəˈnæki/, /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Abenakis.
Forms:

α. 1600s Abenati (transmission error), 1700s Abenaquis (as adjective), 1700s Abenaquise (as adjective), 1700s–1800s Abenaqui, 1700s– Abenaquies (plural), 1700s–1800s Abnaquies (plural), 1700s– Abenaki, 1800s Abanaqui, 1700s– Abenakies (plural), 1800s Abenaque, 1800s Abnaqui, 1800s– Abnaki, 1900s– Abénaquise (as adjective).

β. 1700s Abnaquoise, 1700s– Abenaquois (now rare and historical).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French Abenaquioit, Abenaqui, Abenaki, Abnaqui.
Etymology: < French †Abenaquioit (1632), Abenaqui (1691 or earlier; now Abénaqui ), Abenaki (1698 in the passage translated in quot. 1698 at sense A. 1), †Abnaqui (1699 or earlier), etc., also (as adjective) †Abnaquiois (1651 or earlier), †Abenaquis (1691), †Abenaquois (1759 or earlier) < Old Montagnais ȣabanăki (although this is apparently first attested later: a1695) < Eastern Abenaki wαpánahki, literally ‘person of the dawn land’, self-designation.
A. n.
1. A member of an Algonquian people living chiefly in Maine and Quebec.The Abenaki are divided into the Western Abenaki and the Eastern Abenaki, and, together with the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Micmac form the Abenaki (or Wabanaki) Confederacy.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard
Powhatan1608
Mohicanc1614
Massachusett1616
Penobscot1624
Pequot1631
Narragansett1637
Nipmuc1637
Algonquin1667
Wampanoag1676
Minisink1694
Abenaki1698
Lenape1728
Maliseet1749
Munsee1756
Passamaquoddy1759
Micmac1760
Podunk1797
Algic1839
Virginia Algonquian1903
1698 tr. L. Hennepin Continuation xxiv. 95 in New Discov. in Amer. The Algoncains, the Abenati [sic; Fr. les Abenaki], Esquimones, and an infinite number of Salvages, who have Converst with the Europeans, are no less Sly and Politick.
1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. 17 The Villages of Silleri, and of Saut de la Chaudiere, are compos'd of three hundred Families of Abenakis, who are..Christians.
1721 Mass. House of Representatives Jrnl. (1922) III. 111 The Signature of the Nations of the Abnaquoise.
1778 W. Russell Hist. Amer. II. iv. iv. 247 The missionaries taught the Abnaquies their religion.
1828 L. M. Child Church in Wilderness 4 He found among the savages the orphan son of the Baron de Castine, by a beautiful young Abnakis.
1885 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 9 Jan. An able and interesting paper..in which he described the Abnakis of Maine as the eldest branch of the Algonquins.
1947 R. P. T. Coffin Yankee Coast 226 These Abenakis painted their faces the colors of death..when they went on the warpath and slew the Mohawks.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 84 We saw the burial ground of the Abenaki.
2003 J. Donnelly Gathering Light 251 There's the Traversys. And the Dennises. They're Abenakis, I'm told. They weave sweet-grass baskets and sell them in Eagle Bay.
2. Either or both of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the Western and Eastern Abenaki.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages
Illinois1703
Ojibwa1743
Chippewa1791
Shawnee1792
Miami-Illinois1804
Natick1822
Delaware1826
Munsee1828
Nanticoke1845
Blackfoot1846
Pequot1848
Potawatomi1848
Wiyot1851
Montagnais1852
Passamaquoddy1856
Abenaki1858
Narragansett1866
Lenape1888
Penobscot1891
Powhatan1895
Menominee1896
Micmac1902
Meskwaki1907
Maliseet1912
Cheyenne1933
Kickapoo1933
Massachusett1933
Mohican1933
Sauk1933
Virginia Algonquian1971
Ottawa1982
1858 E. Vetromile Indian Good Bk. (ed. 3) 577 One of the few monuments of the pure Abnaki that have escaped the voracity of time.
1902 Amer. Anthropologist 4 27 The distinction between animate and inanimate gender is still preserved in both Penobscot and Abenaki.
1912 T. Michelson in 28th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1906–7 280 The existing dialects..are Micmac,..Passamaquoddy,..and Abnaki.
1976 K. V. Teeter in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. 506 The splitting of Abnaki into Eastern and Western branches follows the current practice of the principal workers in the field, Day and Siebert.
1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 17/2 Further Algonquian languages, still spoken but by very small numbers, are Abenaki, Algonquian, Arapaho, Atsina, Fox, Kickapoo, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of or relating to the Abenaki or their languages.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard
Massachusett1622
Pequot1634
Nipmuc1636
Mohican1637
Natick1677
Minisink1694
Algonquin1698
Passamaquoddy1726
Penobscot1727
Abenaki1746
Micmac1767
Maliseet1770
Munsee1779
Powhatan1785
Mashpee1809
Powhatanic1855
Virginia Algonquian1870
Wampanoag1948
Mashpee Wampanoag1977
1746 W. Bollan tr. P. F. X. Charlevoix in Importance & Advantage of Cape Breton i. 24 The English neglect nothing to gain the Abenaquis Nation [Fr. les Nations Abénaquises] to their Interests.
1833 J. Pickering in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. New Ser. 1 xv. 569 The reader will..pronounce the Abnaki words as a Frenchman would.
1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest xx De Ramezay had affairs with the Abenaqui chiefs of the Penobscot.
1910 E. T. Seton Life-hist. Northern Animals II. 926 The name ‘Pekan’, first recorded by Charlevoix (1744) and popularized by Buffon 1765, is the Abenaki name, adopted without change.
1974 W. S. Sturtevant in J. Billard World of Amer. Indian 125 (caption) A petit présent—worked in wampum by Abenaki and Huron converts at Jesuit missions along the St. Lawrence River—reposes in France's Chartres Cathedral.
1996 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 24 Mar. 1 b For Swift Fox, 20, a member of the Abnaki tribe, being a part of the youth group is a continuation of a longstanding interest in his heritage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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