单词 | mascouten |
释义 | Mascoutenn. Now historical. 1. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting a region around the south of Lake Michigan, who merged with the Kickapoo at the beginning of the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of prairies Shawnee1693 Illinois1698 Mascouten1698 Miami1698 Kickapoo1722 Peoria1722 Piankashaw1722 Sauk1722 1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. I. xxviii. 111 To the West, lies a Village of the Savages Miami's, Mascouteins, and Oiatinon, who live together. 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 50 Nations to the West of this Lake..are Part of the Outogamis, Mascoutens, and Kikpouz. 1754 E. Bowen Map Brit. Amer. Plantations in Gentleman's Mag. July 322 Mascoutins. 1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 51 The Peanquichas, Mascoutins, Miamis, Kickapous, and Pyatonons, though not very numerous, are a brave and warlike people. 1834 H. R. Schoolcraft Narr. Exped. Itasca Lake x. 93 Those who lived in plains, southwest of Lake Michigan, [were named] Muscotins, from plain. 1860 H. R. Schoolcraft Arch. Aboriginal Knowl. VI. 35 The small tribes of..the Attukapas, the Mascotins, and Allegans, occupied minor positions. 1874 Catholic World Jan. 542 He passed by the villages of the Mascoutens, Sacs, Outagamis,..and others, till he came to the bottom of the lake. 1992 L. LaPierre Canada my Canada iv. 55 To the..Sauks, the Foxes, the Maskoutans, and others sitting in front of him, the governor general proclaimed the peace. 2000 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 83 173/2 In the late seventeenth century, the present site of Milwaukee was known to the Mascouten, Fox, and Potwatomi as another fruitful location for waterfowl hunting. 2. The extinct Algonquian language of the Mascouten. ΚΠ 1979 I. Goddard in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 95 The first break-up of Proto-Algonquian was into the precursors of the following languages:..Fox (whence Fox, Sauk, Kickapoo, and the extinct Mascouten). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1698 |
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