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单词 massachusett
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Massachusettn.adj.

Brit. /ˌmasəˈtʃuːsᵻt/, U.S. /ˌmæsəˈtʃusət/
Inflections: Plural Massachusetts, unchanged.
Forms: 1600s Masachuset, 1600s Masichewsett, 1600s Massatuchet, 1600s Massetuset, 1600s Mathatuset, 1600s Mattachuceset, 1600s Mattachuset, 1600s Messachusett, 1600s Messachusiack, 1600s Messathusett, 1600s 1700s 1900s– Massachuset, 1600s– Massachusett.
Origin: A borrowing from Massachusett. Etymon: Massachusett Massachusêuck.
Etymology: < the Massachusett name of the Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, the basis of the Massachusett self-designation Massachusêuck.Additional forms ending in -s, originally English plurals, are sometimes used for the singular, under the influence of the name of the state of Massachusetts.
Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
1. A member of an Algonquian people inhabiting an area forming the eastern part of the present-day state of Massachusetts.
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Powhatan1608
Mohicanc1614
Massachusett1616
Penobscot1624
Pequot1631
Narragansett1637
Nipmuc1637
Algonquin1667
Wampanoag1676
Minisink1694
Abenaki1698
Lenape1728
Maliseet1749
Munsee1756
Passamaquoddy1759
Micmac1760
Podunk1797
Algic1839
Virginia Algonquian1903
1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 27 The Massachusets, they report, sometimes haue warres with the Bashabes of Penobskot; and are not alwaies friends with them of Chawun and their alliants.
1687 R. Blome Present State Isles & Territories Amer. 232 To the North, Aberginians, which consist of Mattachusets, Wippanaps and Tarentines.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 144 Those powerful tribes..the..Massachusets, Wamponougs, Nipnets, Taranteens, &c. They are gone.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 656/1 The chief tribes included in this stock were the Algonquin, Malecite. Micmac.., Massachuset, Menominee..[etc.].
1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 50/3 It bears the passage from Mark in the translation of John Eliot of Roxbury, who worked 15 years to learn the language of the Massachusetts.
1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 158/2 Massachusett...was the language of the Massachusetts, Nausets, and Pokanokets.
2. The extinct Algonquian language of the Massachusetts. Also called Natick.John Eliot translated the Bible into Massachusett in 1653, but Eliot himself does not seem to have known the language by this name.
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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
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 72 The Algonquian family covers the northeastern part of the continent and includes the languages of..New England (Penobscot, Massachusetts..and so on).
1986 W. S. Simmons Spirit New Eng. Tribes ii. 35 The last Massachusett speakers died around the end of the nineteenth century.
1992 Internat. Encycl. Linguistics I. 47/2 Massachusett, an extinct language of southeastern Massachusetts, USA. Also known as Natick or Wampanoag.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Massachusetts or their language.
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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
1622 Relation Eng. Plantation Plimoth, New Eng. 57 Also the Squa Sachim, or Massachusets Queene was an enemy to him.
1709 E. Mayhew (title) Massachusett Psalter.
1781 B. Franklin Let. 7 May in Wks. (1809) VI. 101 Is it not the Bible of the Massachusetts Language, translated by Eliot, and printed in New England, about the middle of the last Century?
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 85 The Bible and Catechism, and Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, and other tracts, done into the Massachusetts tongue.
1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 159/2 Because his native language was English, Eliot heard Massachusett /p/ sometimes as voiceless [p]. sometimes as voiced [b], and sometimes as a combination of the two.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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