单词 | machiguenga |
释义 | Machiguengan.adj. A. n. 1. A member of an Arawak people inhabiting Peru. ΚΠ 1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 243 A large number of sub-tribes are named by the older writers the principal of which were the Choseosos, Machigangas, Pilcosumis and Sepaunabos. 1909 W. C. Farabee in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 20 130 They have believed that the souls of Macheyengas always enter the red deer. 1922 W. C. Farabee in Peabody Mus. Papers X. 12 The Macheyenga have no fear of the dead. 1995 National Rev. (Electronic ed.) 17 Apr. 53 A young and brilliant anthropology student..enters as a native into the culture of the Machiguengas, a dwindling group who must walk (literally and figuratively) in order to survive as a people. 2. The Arawak language of this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Equatorial > Macro-Arawakan Arawak1814 Taino1836 Wapishana1836 Carib1854 Terena1946 Machiguenga1950 Lokono1953 1950 J. A. Mason in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. iii. 213 Arawakan classification [of languages]... III. Pre-Andine... D. Montaña (Chuncho). 1. Campa..Piro... 3. Machiguenga (Amachengue). 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 108/2 Important [Arawakan] languages still spoken are Goajiro (45,000 speakers) in Colombia, Campa (25,000) and Machiguenga (6,000) in Peru [etc.]. B. adj. Of or relating to the Machiguengas or their language. ΚΠ 1921 H. B. Ferris in Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts & Sci. 25 64 The following are a few Machiganga words spelled phonetically. 1922 W. C. Farabee in Peabody Mus. Papers X. 22 The Macheyenga language is smooth and musical. 1950 M. Steggerda in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 89 Ferris..reports that the hair of the Machiguenga tribe is long, thick, dull, black, and fine. 1998 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 31 May l12 When the bus encountered a flatbed truck laden with sheep, goats and Machiguenga Indians, our driver backed down. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1891 |
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