单词 | lengua |
释义 | Lenguan. a. A member of a South American Indian people inhabiting the Paraguayan Gran Chaco area; also attributive or as adj. 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 1822 S. Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer Hist. Abipones I. 125 The equestrian nations remaining in Chaco, and still formidable to the Spaniards, are the Abipones,..and Oekakakalots, Guaycurus, or Lenguas. 1904 W. B. Grubb Among Indians Paraguayan Chaco vii. 57 The labret is an extension of the lower lip, which has the appearance of a protruding tongue. Hence the Spanish term Lengua was applied indiscriminately by the early colonists to any tribe who adopted this custom. 1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Taboo (ed. 3) ii. 38 The Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco hold that the vagrant spirits of the dead may come to life again. 1950 J. G. Kerr Naturalist in Gran Chaco ix. 175 The main work of the Mission was..among a set of Lengua (i.e. Mushcui) Indians known as the Paisiapto or black-food people. 1973 B. J. Susnik in J. R. Gorham Paraguay: Ecological Ess. 121 (table) Lengua... Since 1850, contacts (bartering) with Spanish Americans. b. The language of this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Ge-Pano-Carib Amerindian Pano1836 Lengua1904 Macusi1934 Island Carib1938 Xavante1950 1904 W. B. Grubb Among Indians Paraguayan Chaco x. 94 Unless the circumstances are known, some expressions in Lengua are quite meaningless. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/2 During the past year sections [of the Bible] have been printed in Lengua, a language spoken by the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1822 |
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