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单词 nanticoke
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Nanticokeadj.n.

Brit. /ˈnantəkəʊk/, U.S. /ˈnæn(t)əˌkoʊk/
Inflections: Plural Nanticokes, unchanged.
Forms: 1600s Nanticoak, 1600s 1800s Nantaquak, 1600s– Nanticoke, 1700s Naaticoke (irregular), 1700s Nantekokies (plural), 1700s Nanticoack (irregular), 1700s Nanticook (irregular), 1700s–1800s Nanticock, 1700s–1800s Nanticok, 1700s–1800s Nantikok, 1800s Nantiquak.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Nautaquake.
Etymology: < a Virginia Algonquian place name first attested in an English context as Nautaquake (1612 in J. Smith Map of Virginia), denoting a place inhabited by the Nanticoke tribe; compare Munsee wənéhtkoːw, a Nanticoke person, Mahican Wenuhtukowuk (plural).The forms Nandako, Nantico, Nentégo, and Nentico also occur in English contexts.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating a North American Indian people, formerly inhabiting the area of the Nanticoke River on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Delaware. Later, also (in extended use): of, relating to, or designating a confederacy of closely related peoples residing on the Eastern Shore, including the Nanticoke, Choptank, and others.
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1642 Proc. Council Maryland 23 Aug. in Arch. Maryland (1885) III. 106 I was desirous to have revenged..as I formerly have done upon the Nanticoque Indians for the death of one Rowland Williams of Accomack.
1798 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes & Nations Amer. (ed. 2) App. 5 I have..been informed..that there are some words common to the Nanticock and Delaware languages.
1824 J. E. Seaver Narr. Life Mrs. Mary Jemison viii. 80 We protected the poor Nanticoke woman, and gave her victuals.
1893 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 31 327 Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect.
1909 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Aug. 14/2 Capt Andrew Hubbard..saw the queer craft coming down stream. He shouted at Captain Insley ‘That's certainly a Nanticoke ram.’
1961 W. Brandon Indians 168/2 The Nanticoke people of Maryland were destroyed almost at once by the Maryland colonists.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Feb. 14 His great-grandfather,..a Nanticoke Indian, harvested food and fur from the marsh.
1999 News Jrnl (Wilmington, Delaware) (Nexis) 12 Sept. b 1 The last fluent speaker of the Nanticoke Language, Nau-Gwa-Ok-Wa (Lydia Clark), died in 1856.
2002 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 31 Jan. A federal review of an archaeological report suggesting there is more than one group of American Indians in Delaware is unlikely to resolve a war of words between members of the Lenape and Nanticoke population.
B. n.
1. A member of the Nanticoke people. Later, also (in extended use): a member of the Nanticoke confederacy.
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1689 Minute 26 Apr. in Exec. Jrnls. Council Col. Virginia (1925) 104 Tenn thousand Seneca Indyans together with Nine thousand Nanticoaks, were all Landed & Joyning their Forces.
1712 Boston News-let. 4 Aug. 2/1 We have several accounts from the Horekills, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, That the Indians in those parts (call'd the Nanticokes) are all in Arms painted red.
1757 (title) Proceedings and treaty with the Shawanese, Nanticokes, and Mohikander Indians, living at Otsiningo, on one of the West Branches of the Susquehanna River.
1760 R. Peters Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1871) 4th Ser. IX. 258 Several Chiefs of the Delawares, Naaticokes & other Indians being on the Susquahannah, are gone to the great Treaty Congress of Indians.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. vii. 103 The principal tribes..were, the Mahicanni, Mohicans, or Mohegans, and the Nanticokes, or Nentigoes.
1839 S. G. Morton Crania Americana 81 He saw a removing party of Nanticokes pass through that town [sc. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania] loaded with the bones of their dead friends.
1949 Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. Apr. 154 Very little has been written about the Nanticokes in Pennsylvania.
1979 M. Mithun in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 147 They [sc. the Susquehannocks] were known to the Dutch and Swedish colonists as traders, passing..brass implements from them to the Nanticokes.
1986 H. Kraft Lenape viii. 236 The Delaware and Munsee, including remnant Mahicans and Nanticokes, were forced to give the United States occupancy rights to all lands in Indiana.
2002 News Jrnl (Wilmington, Delaware) (Nexis) 26 Feb. The Nanticokes' claim as the sole surviving Indian tribe in Delaware should not be diminished.
2. The extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and neighbouring groups until the mid-19th cent.This language was most closely related to Conoy (or Piscataway), the two being sometimes referred to as Nanticoke–Conoy.
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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
1798 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes & Nations Amer. (ed. 2) App. 5 Mr. David Zeisberger, who understands the dialects of the six nations, could find no resemblance between these and the Nanticok.]
1845 R. G. Latham in Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 xxviii. 34/1 English woman... Nanticoke acquahique.
1893 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 31 327 I have thought it of interest to add comparative words from other dialects of the Algonkin stock, to illustrate how thoroughly the Nanticoke belonged to it.
1927 F. Speck Nanticoke & Conoy Indians 19 There is also a Cayuga recollection that many years ago there came from the South another family named Stires (Styers?) whose language was mixed Nanticoke and Cayuga.
1979 I. Goddard in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 103 Siebert (1975) has argued that Powhatan..forms a genetic subgroup with Carolina Algonquian, Nanticoke–Conoy, and the languages of southern New England.
1999 M. Mithun Langs. Native N. Amer. 332 Nanticoke and related dialects were spoken on both sides of the Chesapeake.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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