单词 | murut |
释义 | Murutn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a Dayak people of Borneo, originally inhabiting hill country in the interior of Sabah (North Borneo) and Sarawak, although now more widely dispersed. Cf. Dusun n. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Borneo and Sarawak > [noun] > person Dayak1836 Murut1836 Kenyah1866 Iban1911 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Austronesian languages Formosan1650 Moluccan1700 Bugis1808 Tagalog1808 Murut1836 Indonesian1850 Lifu1852 Motuan1885 Buginese1897 Dusun1897 Pangasinan1904 Lifuan1917 Pilipino1936 Marshallese1945 Yami1953 Tolai1963 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 188/2 In the interior [of Borneo] are the Kayan, the Dusun, the Marut, the Tataoeli, &c., but they are not farther known. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 16 297 The indigenous population [of Borneo] is included under the names of Dayák, Kadáyan, Milanau, Káyan, Murút, Dusúr. 1848 F. S. Marryat Borneo 111 The whole space was covered with naked savages. These were the Maruts, a tribe of Dyaks who live in the mountains. 1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon iii. 81 The interior of the country is inhabited by the descendants of the aboriginal population, called variously Muruts, Dusuns, or Ida'an. 1929 O. Rutter Pagans of N. Borneo ii. 31 Speaking generally, the Muruts may be said to inhabit the hilly country of the interior of North Borneo. 1968 Encycl. Brit. XV. 1012/2 The Muruts..are..abandoning their communal houses in favour of private dwellings. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Malaysia The Murut of Sabah are descended from the same people as the Kadazan and are ethnically different from the Murut of Sarawak. 2. The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Muruts.Murut is sometimes regarded as a group of related languages. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > Borneo Kayan1846 Dusun1922 Murut1939 1939 A. Keith Land below Wind xi. 198 Arusap called to them in Murut. 1958 A. A. Cense & E. M. Uhlnbeck Crit. Surv. Langs. Borneo 21 The dialects of the groups qualified as Murut, i.e. ‘hill’ belong to two clearly distinguishable groups. 1958 A. A. Cense & E. M. Uhlnbeck Crit. Surv. Langs. Borneo 22 Needham indicates..two groups by the names of ‘Sarawak Murut’ and ‘North Borneo Murut’. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Bisaya The Bisaya speak Murut, leading some to believe they were once one of the branches of the Murut peoples. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Muruts or their language. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Borneo and Sarawak > [adjective] Kayan1846 Dusun1851 Murut1858 Punan1892 Iban1911 1858 S. St. John Jrnl. 1 Sept. in Life Forests Far East (1862) II. iii. 45 I then made Japer hail in the Kayan and also in the Murut languages. 1939 A. Keith Land below Wind xi. 197 Here was a Murut headman in only a loincloth. 1958 A. A. Cense & E. M. Uhlnbeck Crit. Surv. Langs. Borneo 22 Southwell states that the bulk of the Murut people nowadays live in Indonesian Borneo. 1980 Current Anthropol. 21 207 Surviving meaning components in..Malay timur ‘east’, Timugon Murut timug ‘water’, and Samoan timu ‘rainy’. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Bisaya The Bisaya speak Murut, leading some to believe they were once one of the branches of the Murut peoples. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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