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单词 mistassini
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Mistassinin.

Brit. /mɪstəˈsiːni/, U.S. /ˌmɪstəˈsini/, Canadian English /ˌmɪstəˈsiːni/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mistassinis.
Forms: 1700s–1800s Mistassin, 1800s– Mistassini, 1900s– Mistissini.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Mistassins.
Etymology: < Canadian French Mistassins, plural (1640; also in Old Montagnais plural form Mistasiniouek, 1644; in 19th cent. standardized as Mistassini), shortened < Old Montagnais mistasini:waky, lit. ‘people of the great rock’, referring to a large rock in Lac Mistassini, called in Mistassini East Cree mistasiniy, mistasinii great stone, which is also the name of Mistassini Post.In later use directly < the name of Lac Mistassini. The Old Montagnais plural form Mistasiniouek occasionally occurs in English in historical contexts; there are also isolated uses in the 19th cent. of other forms based on the French of Jesuit missionaries. The official name of the band is now the Cree Nation of Mistissini.
Chiefly Canadian.
1. A member of a Cree people inhabiting the shores of Lac Mistassini in south central Quebec. Frequently attributive, esp. in Mistassini Cree, Mistassini Indian.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [noun]
mountainer1625
Montagnais1654
mountaineer1703
Cree1760
Mistassini1781
Muskego1785
Red Indian1796
Chipewyan1801
Beothuk1828
red man1842
Naskapi1849
1781 New & Accurate Map Quebec in K. A. Kershaw Early Printed Maps Canada (1998) IV. Grt Mistassins.
1817 E. Chappell Narr. Voy. to Hudson's Bay 166 A variety of tribes..such as the Mistassins.
1863 H. Y. Hind Explor. Labrador Peninsula i. 8 This immense country..is thinly peopled by nomadic bands of Montagnais, Nasquapee, Mistassini, and Swampy Creek Indians.
1947 Ethnos 12 12 As for the Mistassini, they are employed as transport workers in one of the most important overland routes.
1958 E. S. Rogers (title) Mistassini hunting groups and hunting territories.
1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples viii. 145 In 1953–54, Edward Rogers studied hunting practices among the Mistassini Cree of the western Labrador Peninsula.
1994 Canad. Geographic July 42/2 In 1936, a federal Indian agent falsely declared the Chibougamau people to be ‘strays’ of the Mistassini Crees, 100 kilometers to the north.
2001 N. Smith in Actes du 32e Congrès des Algonquinistes 525 The James Bay Project terminated the Mistissini as the great fur trappers that they had been for centuries.
2. The language of the Mistassini, a dialect of East Cree.
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1958 J. H. Rogers Notes on Mistassini Phonemics & Morphol. 91 * ki and *ki have become / ci/ and /ci/ in Mistassini.
2001 N. Smith in Actes du 32e Congrès des Algonquinistes 524 The importance for Mistissini children to be brought up in Mistissini.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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