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单词 mascouten
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Mascoutenn.

Brit. /məsˈkuːt(ə)n/, U.S. /məsˈkutn/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mascoutens.
Forms: 1600s Mascoutein, 1700s Masconten (probably transmission error), 1700s Mascoutin, 1700s Mascutin, 1700s Maskoutin, 1700s Miscotin, 1700s Muscoutin, 1700s Musketoon, 1700s Musqueton, 1700s Musquiton, 1700s– Mascouten, 1800s Mascontin (probably transmission error), 1800s Mascoten, 1800s Mascotin, 1800s Mascouton, 1800s Muscoten, 1800s Muscotin, 1800s Mushkodain, 1900s– Maskoutan.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Mascouten.
Etymology: < French Mascouten (1672; 1658 as Makoutensak) < Ojibwa maškote:nss (person of the) little prairie, diminutive of maškote: prairie.
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.
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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.
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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).
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