单词 | manahoac |
释义 | Manahoacn. A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting the valley of the upper Rappahanoock River in northern Virginia and perhaps speaking a Siouan language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Siouan peoples Manahoac1608 Winnebago1766 Ho-Chunk1943 1608 J. Smith True Relation C1v This Riuer of Topahanock...At the mouth of the Riuer is a Countrey called Cuttata women, vpwards is Marraugh tacum Tapohanock, Appamatuck, and Nantaugs tacum, at Topmanahocks [app. a misprint in a garbled sentence]. 1609 Instr. to Sir Thomas Gates in P. L. Barbour Jamestown Voy. under First Charter (1969) II. v. 267 Monocon to the east and head of our Riuer, Powhatons enemy and the Manahockes to ye Northeast to the head of the Riuer of Moyomps. 1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 6 The third navigable riuer is called Toppahanock...At the top of it inhabit the people called Mannahoackes amongst the mountaines. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xi. 167 We are told that the Powhatans, Mannahoacs, and Monacans spoke languages so radically diffrent, that interpreters were necessary when they transacted business. 1836 A. Gallatin Synopsis 57 No specimen has been preserved of the languages of any of the tribes, either Monacans of Mannahoks, living west of the Powhatans. 1864 J. D. Burk Hist. Virginia I. iii. 124 At the head of the falls, lived the four nations of the Mannahocks, who, with the Manakins..formed a confederacy against Powhatan. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers ix. 138 He has lived..among the Sioux, whiles with the Catawbas, whiles with the Manahoacs. 1989 Jrnl. Middle Atlantic Archaeol. 5 123 The Manahoac tribes avoided contacts with the colonists. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1608 |
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