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单词 miskito
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Miskitoadj.n.

Brit. /mᵻˈskiːtəʊ/, /ˈmɪskɪtəʊ/, U.S. /məˈskidoʊ/, /məˈskiˌtoʊ/
Inflections: Plural Miskitos, unchanged.
Forms:

α. 1600s Mosqueto, 1600s Musketa, 1600s 1800s– Moskito, 1700s Musketo, 1700s Muskito, 1700s–1800s Musquito, 1700s– Mosquito.

β. 1800s– Miskito, 1900s– Mískito, 1900s– Mískitu, 1900s– Misquito, 1900s– Mísquito, 1900s– Misskito.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Miskito. Etymons: Spanish Mosquito; Miskito Miskito.
Etymology: < Spanish Mosquito (1615) and its etymon Miskito Miskito, of uncertain origin.The word is attested earlier in English in the place names Cape muskeetoe (and variants), the musketoes (and variants) (the latter referring to the group of islands now known as the Miskito Cays or Cayos Miskito ). Compare:1631 D. Ellffryth in William & Mary Q. (1944) 1 312 You must steere away north west and by north ffor Cape muskeetoe.1631 D. Ellffryth in William & Mary Q. (1944) 1 313 Now ffolloweth the Course ffrom provedence to the musketoes. The variation of the first vowel in the early forms may reflect the Miskito pronunciation with // (compare the note s.v. mishla n.). In all the forms before the late 19th cent. the word was assimilated to mosquito n. Compare:1779 H. L. Thrale Diary 15 Aug. in Thraliana (1942) I. 400 Never was there such a Year for..all manner of Insects..as this year 1779... Tis curious enough & beyond Measure troublesome—quite the Musketo Shore!1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 902/2 The Mosquito Coast is so called from its principal inhabitants, the Misskito Indians, whose name was corrupted into Mosquito by European settlers and has been entirely superseded by that form except in the native dialects. From the late 19th cent. onwards, the forms increasingly reflect the Miskito spelling. Compare Spanish Miskito (1983), Misquito (1985).
A. adj.
Of or relating to an American Indian people living in a coastal region of eastern Nicaragua and north-eastern Honduras.The region is often referred to as the Mosquito Coast (earlier Mosquito Shore). The Miskito king placed his people under British protection towards the end of the 17th cent., at which time British settlers began to arrive. The region was a British dependency between 1740 and 1786. British influence declined following the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850, and the region ceased to be a British protectorate in 1860. It was absorbed into Nicaragua in 1894.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1726
Aztec1787
Miskito1789
Chichimec1811
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Otomi1843
Mimbres1856
Nahuatl1858
Yaqui1861
Zapotec1861
Tzeltal1868
Tlapanec1874
Mixtec1875
Bribri1876
Mangue1876
Nahua1876
Nahuatlaca1877
Mixe1888
Trique1891
Mazatecan1892
Subtiaba1892
Huichol1900
Cuna1905
Mixteca1911
Subtiaban1911
Tarascan1911
Tarahumara1912
Zapotecan1922
Tzotzil1939
Mixe–Zoquean1940
Tiwa1950
Mixteco1959
Kekchi1960
1688 Duke of Albemarle Let. 11 Feb. in Cal. State Papers, Colonial Ser., Amer. & W. Indies (1899) 493 Some Indians known by the name of ‘Musketa’ Indians (whose country is called Cape Gratias de Dios, in latitude 15° 20′ or thereabouts) have been here with me.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 33 Our Moskito men went in their Canoa, and struck us some Manatee, or Sea-cow.
1732 M. W. Mosqueto Indian in Churchill's Coll. Voy. VI. 293 (title) The Mosqueto Indian.
1732 Boston Weekly Newslet. 5 Oct. 3/1 In May last a Spanish Gally took a company of Musketo Men in a Perriaguer, who made little or no Resistance.
1743 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 542/2 I was then among the Mosquito Indians. [Note] These inhabit near the Bay of Honduras.
1789 O. Equiano Interesting Narr. Life II. xi. 172 He had a mind for..cultivating a plantation at Jamaica and the Musquito Shore... I found with the Doctor four Musquito Indians... One of them was the Musquito king's son.
1830 Honduras Almanack 11 The canoe, a paddle and a harpoon, are the Mosquito man's whole wealth.
1851 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 7 The revolted Mosquito Indians who had taken part with England in the war just then terminated.
1894 H. Berckenhagen Gram. Miskito Lang. 83 The figures following the Miskito words indicate the lessons, where the resp. word may be found.
1932 E. Conzemius Ethnogr. Surv. Miskito & Sumu Indians (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 106) 10 Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Suma Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua.
1986 Times 28 May 16/4 A squad of coffee-coloured Miskito girls baking bread, cakes and biscuits in the wood-fired ovens.
B. n.
a. A Miskito Indian.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1578
Miskito1697
Tiwa1710
Nahuatlaca1775
Otomi1782
Aztec1787
Mazahua1787
Mixteca1787
Totonac1787
Zapotec1797
Chichimec1809
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Mixtec1852
Olmec1852
Mogollon1855
Mimbres1859
Yaqui1861
Cuna1868
Tzeltal1868
Nahuatl1873
Huastec1874
Tarahumara1874
Tlapanec1874
Bribri1875
Nahua1875
Mangue1876
Mazatec1878
Subtiaba1891
Tequistlatec1891
Trique1891
Nahuatlan1897
Huichol1900
Mixtecan1900
Tarascan1931
Mixe–Zoque1957
Mixteco1972
Garifuna1977
Mixean1982
Garinagu1983
Mixe–Zoquean1989
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. 10 These Moskitoes are in general very civil and kind to the English, of whom they receive a great deal of respect.
1732 Boston Weekly Newslet. 5 Oct. 3/1 A company..falling upon the Spaniards, destroyed most of them, and carried the Gally and Perriaguer to the Musketos.
1740 R. Hodgson Let. in Amer. Rev. (1851) Aug. 93/1 The weight of the Muskitos among their neighbours notwithstanding all their vices, appears from their influence upon these two Indian nations.
1850 Amer. Rev. Mar. 255/2 It is plain..that the treaty of 1786 proves, that the Mosquitos were considered by the contracting parties as a nation.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 343/2 The Lenca, Xicaque,..and coastal Misquito of the Atlantic pocket of Nicaragua-Honduras missed the stream of Maya-Nahua influence.
1964 Amer. Speech 39 47 The Mosquitos are Caribs.
1987 Geogr. Mag. Dec. 588/2 The Miskitos rose up in armed revolt and joined the ranks of the Contras.
b. The Misumalpan language of the Miskito people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Chibchan > languages of
Cuna1891
Miskito1894
Tarascan1911
Motilon1950
Yanomamö1972
1894 H. Berckenhagen Gram. Miskito Lang. 39 The conjunction ‘if’ in the English is given in Miskito by the word ‘kaka’.
1954 Gospel in Many Tongues (Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc.) 113 Moskito.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 194 In Miskito, a language of Nicaragua and Honduras, one encounters the following transliterations.
1980 Eng. World-wide 1 230 This..has been compiled by having an anglophone Nicaraguan..translate a 500-item list of flora and fauna terms from Spanish and Miskito into local English.
1992 Internat. Encycl. Linguistics II. 431 Misumalpan languages are a family of Central America, comprising the languages Mískito, Sumu, Cacaopera, and Matagalpa, the last two extinct... Mískito..also called Mísquito, Mískitu, Mosquito, or Marquito.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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