单词 | miwok |
释义 | Miwokn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people residing in several distinct groupings in coastal and interior California. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [noun] Mojave1831 Mono1851 Miwok1856 Mutsun1857 Luiseño1858 Monache1870 Yokuts1877 Yawelmani1907 1856 T. J. Henley Let. 4 Sept. in Indian Affairs Rep. 1856 (1857) 244 This tribe (the Mewahs) number probably about three thousand this side of the San Joaquin River. 1873 Overland Monthly Apr. 338/2 Incremation very generally prevails among the Meewocs. 1877 S. Powers Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. III. 346 By much the largest nation in California, both in population and in extent of territory, is the Miwok, whose ancient dominion extended from the snow-line of the Sierra Nevada to the San Joaquin River, and from the Cosumnes to the Fiesno. 1916 E. W. Gifford Miwok Moieties 141 With the Miwok the moiety has no subdivisions. 1949 Los Angeles Times 10 Apr. ii. 5/2 The name Yosemite was given to this valley by the Miwoks. 1991 Dirty Linen Oct. 74/4 It was Muir after all whose conception of our country's national parks system entailed the banishment of the Miwok and other indigenous tribes from Yosemite. 2. Any of the languages spoken by the Miwok peoples; these languages collectively or the grouping they constitute, a branch of the Miwok–Costanoan (or Utian) family, hypothesized to be part of the Penutian superfamily. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Penutian languages Miwok1873 Mutsun1877 Takelma1881 Zuñi1882 Yokuts1887 Yawelmani1907 Yokutsan1956 1873 Overland Monthly Apr. 323/1 Every ten miles..there is a clean breach of a whole battalion of words..but in the Meewoc, they keep their places better. 1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 692 The new larger families and their components are: Penutian, comprising the groups formerly known as Maidu, Wintun, Miwok, Costanoan, and Yokuts, [etc.]. 1966 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Map N. Amer. Indian Lang. (caption) Miwok-Costanoan Family 1. Sierra Miwok. 2. Coast-Lake Miwok. 1972 Language 48 847 6b is given..by Sedlak for..Miwok, Mongol (Dagor),..and Siona. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 113 In Lake Miwok..final juncture is often marked by glottal stricture. B. adj. Of or relating to the Miwok or their languages. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [adjective] Mojave1844 Mutsun1857 Yokuts1877 Yawelmani1907 Miwok1916 Yokutsan1956 1916 E. W. Gifford Miwok Moieties 142 That totemic symptoms of one sort or another are present in the Miwok organization cannot be denied. 1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 436/1 A Miwok couple about to marry endogamously. 1989 S. B. Hecht & A. Cockburn Fate of Forest ix. 196 The Miwok Indians, driven out of Yosemite when it was made into a national park. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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