单词 | kutenai |
释义 | KutenaiKutenayn.adj. A. n. a. An Indian people of the Rocky Mountains; also, a member of this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [noun] snake1791 Kutenai1801 Pierced Nose1805 Shoshone1805 Tillamook1806 Wallawalla1806 Nez Perce1811 Ute1826 Paiute1827 Spokane1831 Sahaptin1836 flat-head1837 Shuswap1838 Twana1838 Salish1843 Molale1844 Washoe1846 Yakima1852 Skokomish1854 Klamath1890 1801 A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal (map following Pref.) Cattanhowes. 1809 D. Thompson Jrnl. 9 Sept. in Washington Hist. Q. (1920) XI. 99 They all smoked, say 54 Flat Heads, 23 Pointed Hearts & 4 Kootenaes, in all about 80 men. 1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River II. vii. 152 The Cootonais are the remnants of a once brave and powerful tribe. 1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mtns. xxiii. 304 The Cootanies inhabit a section of the country to the north of the Ponderas along M'Gillivary's River... They speak a language distinct from all tribes about them, open and sonorous, and free from gutturals. 1846 H. Hale U.S. Exploring Exped.: Ethnogr. & Philol. 204 (heading) Kitunaha, or Coutanies, or Flat Bows. 1893 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 575 The Kootenays believe that they came from the East, and one of their myths ascribes to them an origin from a hole in the ground east of the Rocky Mountains. 1929 Amer. Speech 5 116 Indian tribal names..were usually transcribed by persons whose ears were unaccustomed to any but European languages... We inherited..corruptions..Kutenai from Kutonaqua. 1955 P. E. Baker Forgotten Kutenai i. 8 The word Kutenai is spelled..Kootenai, Kootenay, Kootenae, Cootanie, and Cootenai as well as Kutenai. 1959 E. Tunis Indians viii. 112/2 One tribe, the Kutenai, made bark canoes with exaggerated back-slanting bows, like the ram bows of 1898 battleships. 1969 O. W. Johnson Flathead & Kootenay 16 The Kutenais sowed and harvested sacred plants for ceremonial smoking before they ever heard of White men. b. Their language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Kutenai Kutenai1894 1894 Amer. Anthropologist 7 69 The tomtit, the owl, the robin, and a few other birds are believed [by the Kootenays] to speak Kootenay. 1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Kootenayan, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonkian, are spoken also in the United States. 1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 78 Kutenai (Powell's ‘Kitunahan’), spoken in the eastern Plateau area bordering on the north~western Plains, stands in lonely isolation among a variety of languages of sure affiliation. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [adjective] Shoshone1805 Nez Perce1811 Ute1826 Spokane1838 Sahaptin1841 Skokomish1844 Paiute1845 Salish1849 Yakima1855 Kutenai1877 Salishana1886 Shuswap1904 Wallawalla1957 1877 A. S. Gatschet in Mag. Amer. Hist. 1 iii. 170 The Kootenai, Kitunaha, or Flatbow language. 1891 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 85 (heading) Kitunahan Koluschan Families. 1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada xxii. 360 In the firm conviction that the dead would one day return to life at lake Pend-d'Oreille, all the Kootenay bands assembled at that lake in certain winters to hold a religious festival. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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