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单词 maliseet
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Maliseetn.adj.

Brit. /ˈmalᵻsiːt/, U.S. /ˈmæləˌsit/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, (occasionally) Maliseets.
Forms: 1700s Amalicite, 1700s Malécite, 1700s Marashite, 1700s Mareachette, 1800s Maricheet, 1800s Mee-lee-ceet, 1800s Melecite, 1800s Melicete, 1800s Milicite, 1800s Morrisete, 1800s– Malicite, 1800s– Maliseet, 1800s– Malisit, 1800s– Melicite, 1800s– Milicite, 1900s– Malechite, 1900s– Malecite.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Micmac. Etymons: French Malécite; Micmac mali:sit.
Etymology: < French Malécite (1722; 1692 as Marisizis) and its etymon Micmac mali:sit, lit. ‘one who speaks poorly or incomprehensibly’.An earlier pronunciation, still sometimes heard locally, is /məˈliˌsit/. The form Amalicite apparently reflects a mishearing, and perhaps confusion with Amalekite n.
A. n.
1. A member of a North American Indian people of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Maine.
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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
1749 G. Clinton Let. 30 Oct. in E. B. O'Callaghan Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1855) VI. 540 As to the two Amalicites taken out of the Canoe Coll Wendall says this was not done in their Government but in Nova Scotia.
1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. I. xi. 283 The Abenaquis..have, for their nearest neighbours the Etechemins, or Malécites in the country about the river Pentagoët.
1847 A. Gesner New Brunswick v. 108 The Melicetes, from being descended from the Delaware stock, speak a dialect of that people.
1855 H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. V. 38 The Micmacs and Melecites of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1856 C. Lanman Adventures Wilds U.S. II. 53 The original names of these tribes were Mickmakis and Maricheets.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 603/1 There are 2125 Indians in Nova Scotia, principally Malicites and Micmacs.
1908 Catholic Encycl. III. 229/2 To the east are the Micmac, Malecite, Abnaki, Nascapi, and the Montagnais of Labrador.
1992 Beaver (Winnipeg) Aug. 59/3 Noel Lola is included..partly for his life as a New Brunswick Malecite, but also for his later reputation as a restless ghost.
2. The eastern Algonquian language of the Maliseet.
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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
1912 T. Michelson in 28th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1906–7 280 The existing dialects..are Micmac, Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abnaki.
1979 I. Goddard in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 111 In Maliseet -s(əpən-) is suffixed after the central endings and before the peripheral endings.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Maliseet.
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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
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages
Shawnee1674
Cree1744
Potawatomi1789
Nipissing1793
Miami1804
Algic1827
Beothuk1842
Blackfoot1845
Yurok1851
Passamaquoddy1856
Plains Cree1860
Maliseet1863
Ojibwa1937
1770 Minute of Council, Nova Scotia 28 Feb. in H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. (1855) V. 676 The Mareachette Indians on the river St. John.
1855 H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. V. 676 The sum of £300 having been granted, in 1814, in aid of the Milicite tribe, it was..applied..to the purchase of 330 acres.
1855 J. Stephens (title) A primer for young children applicable to the Indian language, as spoken by the Mee-lee-ceet tribe in New Brunswick.
1863 (title) The ten commandments, the Lord's Prayer, etc., in the Maliseet language.
1879 Appletons' Jrnl. Aug. 169/2 An ordinary-sized Mic-Mac or Melicite canoe..weighs about seventy or eighty pounds.
1899 M. Chamberlain Maliseet Vocab. 6 That slurring and drawling of the syllables which lends a musical quality to the Maliseet speech.
1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 27 (advt.) Legend has it that the half god, half man Glooscap, a Maliseet Indian, was responsible for this.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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