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单词 lunda
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lundan.1

Forms: Also 1700s lunder.
Etymology: representing Icelandic lundi, Norwegian lunde, Swedish lunn.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈlunda.
A Scandinavian name for: the puffin.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin)
scout1596
willock1606
bottlenose1620
parrot1664
sea-parrot1664
guldenhead1676
coulterneb1678
mullet1678
puffin1678
cockandy1684
sea-coulter1684
bowger1698
norie1701
tammie norie1701
popea1705
lunda1744
rock-bird1765
puffin-auk1768
tommy noddy1769
Tomnoddy1771
Tommya1777
Tomnorry1793
Tommy1828
sea-owl1842
1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 612 Greenland produces..Cormorants, Lunders, Parrots [etc.].
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Lunda, vide Puffin.
1893 A. Newton Dict. Birds Lunda.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

Lundan.2adj.

Brit. /ˈlʊndə/, U.S. /ˈlʊndə/
Inflections: Plural Lundas, unchanged.
Forms: 1800s–1900s Londa, 1800s– Lunda.
Origin: A borrowing from Bantu. Etymon: Lunda -lunda.
Etymology: < Lunda -lunda, self-designation (in Alunda, denoting the people (singular Mulunda), and Chilunda, denoting the language).
A. n.2
1. A member of any of several peoples mainly inhabiting northern Zambia and adjoining areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa
Zimba1625
Tambouki1786
Hottentot1795
Morolong1815
Oorlam1815
Barolong1823
Tembu1827
Fingo1829
Ngwaketsea1832
Ovaherero1851
Lunda1857
Herero1862
Swazi1878
Magwamba1884
Khoisan1929
Rolong1937
1857 D. Livingstone in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 27 349 Native Portuguese..are employed by the Angolese merchants to trade with Matiamvo..the paramount chief of the negro tribes called Londa (Lunda) or Balonda.
1960 I. Cunnison tr. A. C. P. Gamitto King Kazembe II. ii. 116 The pure descendants of the conquered chief are called Shila, and they live..quite isolated, and without any intercourse with the Lunda.
2019 Zambian Eye (Nexis) 20 July How can you have a government without Lozi people, Luvales, Lundas, Tongas and others... We need an inclusive government.
2. The Bantu language of the Lunda.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages
Kaffir1820
Swahilese1833
Sesotho1846
Chagga1849
Kikuyu1849
Mitshi1854
Manganja1859
Bantu1866
Kavirondo1870
Luganda1876
Sotho1876
Fan1883
Gogo1883
Lunda1883
Nyamwezi1883
Kioko1884
Barotse1888
Ganda1891
Tumbuka1891
Chichewa1897
Bemba1902
Nyanja1902
Rwanda1902
Lingala1903
Sepedi1905
Ila1907
Lamba1907
Chewa1908
Venda1908
Ngoni1911
Munchi1913
Meru1921
Yao1924
Lozi1937
Nguni1939
Ndembu1945
Mwera1947
Sango1948
Ovambo1953
Sukuma1969
Tiv1976
1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. II. xii. 399 Lúnda,..is the central language of Africa South of the Equator, and is mentioned by travellers both from the East and West Coast.
1986 K. Katzner Langs. of World (rev. ed.) iii. 361 Among the many other languages [spoken in Zaïre] are Mongo.., of the central regions..and Lunda.., of the south.
2015 Times of Zambia (Nexis) 28 Feb. He explained himself so well in ci-Bemba and went further to speak Lunda, the language he was said was his wife's dialect.
B. adj.
Of, belonging to, or relating to the Lunda or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [adjective] > other peoples of Southern Africa
Siddi1737
Kaffir1763
Barolong1802
Setswana1811
Tambouki1827
Motswana1835
Swazi1872
Lunda1879
Tswana1891
Tembu1927
Rolong1935
Batswana1953
the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages
Kaffir1588
Kongo1597
Xhosa1812
Amapondo1830
Zulu1839
Sesotho1844
Swahilian1846
Kikuyu1850
Bantu1858
Fan1861
Amandebele1872
Nyamwezi1872
Wagogo1878
Lunda1879
Luganda1882
Sotho1883
Gogo1891
Tonga1891
Chichewa1897
Ronga1897
Bemba1904
Ila1907
Tsonga1907
Meru1908
Chewa1909
Venda1913
Lingala1922
Luba1922
Pedi1922
Nyanja1923
Nguni1929
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1937
Tiv1939
Mongo1961
Siswati1964
1879 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1 738 Dr. Buchner was preparing..to resume his march towards the Lunda country.
1911 Encycl. Brit. III. 362/2 There is a treatise on the Lunda language of the south-western part of the Belgian Congo, in Portuguese, by Henrique de Carvalho.
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society i. 2 Kanongecha's migration occurred at about the same time as the migrations of other Lunda leaders.
2018 Africa News (Nexis) 13 Feb. The exhibition of the dance style by the children shows that the Lunda culture is well preserved.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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