单词 | menominee |
释义 | Menomineen.adj. A. n. 1. a. A member of a semi-sedentary North American people residing, at the time of first European contact, in summer villages in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and subsisting by hunting, gathering, and gardening. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Great Lakes Ottawac1665 Potawatomi1698 Ojibwa1700 Mississauga1703 Menominee1722 Meskwaki1741 Chippewa1754 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 48 The Nations who dwell on this River, are Outogamis, Malominis, Nikic, Oualeanicou, Sacky, and the Poutouatamis. 1749 J. Lindesay Return of W. Tribes in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1855) VI. 538 (table) Names of each nation..Monomunies. 1762 T. Hutchins Jrnl. 26 June in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1926) 10 369 I delivered the same Message to the Meynomeneys that I had done to the Sax and Reynard Nations. 1822 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 15 We found the Winebagoes and Menominees..in a state of considerable agitation. 1835 C. F. Hoffman Winter in West II. 3 The Mè-nó-mò-nè, or wild-rice-eaters, is a broken band that served with effect against the Sauks and Foxes in the Indian difficulties of 1832. 1842 Southern Lit. Messenger Oct. 664/2 A fine young Menominee, who was by my side, ran forward, tomahawk upraised. 1953 A. Huxley Let. 17 Aug. (1969) 683 The Menomini are Indians in a reservation in Wisconsin. 1975 Times 8 Jan. 6 The Menominees have a reservation near by. 1992 Cultural Survival Q. Fall 29/3 The Menominee sued the federal government for mismanaging their forested lands. b. The Algonquian language (formerly) spoken by the Menominee. ΘΚΠ 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 1896 14th Ann. Rep. Bureau Ethnol. 1892–3 i. 60 Their knowledge of Menomini was so slight as to deter them from enjoying more than casual interchange of greetings. 1922 L. Bloomfield in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 43 279 These stems are a living (freely formed) derivation in Menomini. 1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. i. 2 To learn Greek or Menomini..it is not enough to read through a compact presentation of paradigms or rules. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 237 The Menominee distinguished good speakers from bad and were able to characterize those who spoke elevated, archaizing, barbarous, or elegant Menominee. 2. In full Menominee whitefish. The round whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in lakes of northern North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Coregonus (whitefish) > member of whiting1587 gwyniad1612 powan1633 whitefish1698 tittimeg1705 omul1706 pollack1707 pollan1714 skelly1740 vendace1769 tullibee1789 ferra1807 roundfish1821 herring-salmon1836 shad-salmon1842 mountain herring1877 bluefin1878 grayling1879 shad-waiter1879 houting1880 kilch1881 Menominee1882 gizzard-fish1883 1882 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 16. 298 C[oregonus] quadrilateralis..Menomonee White-fish. 1902 Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 1901 653 Table showing, by States, the products of the fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1899..White-fish (Menominee) fresh..White-fish (Menominee) salted. 1944 G. L. Nute Lake Superior 186 Menominees, a kind of whitefish, are listed at 14,940 pounds, all caught in American waters. 1988 Newsday 11 Nov. 35 Wild fish such as Menominee whitefish and speckled trout are given a heavy smoke and served with a dollop of fresh horseradish cream. 3. North American. With lower-case initial. = menomin n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > types of rice or rice-plants fundi1670 ricea1710 wild rice1748 zizania1756 zizany1759 water oats1771 Canada rice1786 Carolina rice1787 menomin1791 Patna rice1795 Indian rice1809 pulut1820 dhan1832 hungry rice1858 swamp rice1861 Menominee1949 miracle rice1968 1949 Boston Globe 14 Aug. (Fiction Mag.) 8/2 Wild ducks rose from the sloughs in the marsh where wild rice grew, the menominee of the Indian tribe of that name. 1967 W. S. Avis et al. Dict. Canad. Eng., Senior Dict. Menominee, wild rice. B. adj. Of or relating to the Menominee or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Great Lakes Ottawa1687 Mississauga1749 Chippewa1764 Meskwaki1816 Menominee1823 1823 N. Pinckney Let. 1 Oct. in Rep. Indian Claims Comm. (U.S.) (1957) V. ii. 581 They..will endeavor to prevent the ratification by the Government of your Treaty made with the Menominee Nation last year. 1830 in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1892) XII. 185 He is a half Blood St. Regis, with a half Blood Menomonie wife. 1920 L. Bloomfield Let. 22 Aug. in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 90 Have been writing down Menominee words and stories. They are a delightful people, of good culture: it must have been an elaborate and beautiful culture 200 years ago. 1975 Times 8 Jan. 6 Troops of the Wisconsin National Guard were called out today to deal with a group of Menominee Indians occupying a large estate. 1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 July a1/1 A group of Indian casino ripoff artists who attempted to strike the Menominee Nation casino..demonstrated the vulnerability of the casinos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1722 |
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