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单词 natchez
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Natchezn.adj.

Brit. /ˈnatʃᵻz/, U.S. /ˈnætʃəz/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1700s Nachee Brit. /ˈnɑːtʃi/, U.S. /ˈnɑtʃi/, 1700s Naches, 1700s Nachis, 1700s Natche, 1700s Natché, 1700s Natchee, 1700s Nauchees, 1700s Nautches, 1700s Nocheas, 1700s Nochees, 1700s Nochess, 1700s Notchee, 1700s–1800s Natches, 1700s– Natchez, 1800s Na'htchi, 1800s Netches, 1800s Noatches, 1800s Notches.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French Natché, Natchez.
Etymology: < French †Natché (1682), Natchez (1700) < Mobilian Jargon (compare Choctaw Nahchi, Creek ná:hci), apparently originally a village name. Compare Spanish †Nachis (1723 or earlier), †Natches (1848), Natchez (1921).
Now historical.
A. n.
1. A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting the lower Mississippi river area near present-day Natchez, Mississippi.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun]
Floridian1589
Chickasaw1674
Yamasee1699
Alabama1708
Natchez1708
Santee1709
Cherokee1721
Choctaw1722
Coushatta1722
Creek1725
Yuchi1738
Muskogee1751
Floridan1763
Muskogee1789
Mikasuki1791
Opelousa1805
Karankawa1806
Tunica1806
Melungeon1813
Alabamian1817
Ozark1819
Alabaman1829
1708 T. Nairne Let. 10 July in Muskhogean Jrnls. (1988) 74 I entertained Intelligence among the yassas, Tassas, and Nochess, Inviteing them to Settle up Cussate river.
1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 9 The River of the Naches..10 or 12 Leagues above its Mouth, divides...The South Branch is Inhabited by the Corroas, the North by the Naches.
1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. II. 256 The cabbins of the great village of the Natchez..are in the form of square pavilions.
1798 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes Amer. p. liii A number of families of the Natchez are settled among the Creeks.
1822 A. Hamilton Marriage Rites 296 Among the Natchez, the sovereign family suppose themselves descended from the sun.
1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 340 Such is a brief notice of the customs of the Natchez.
1908 Athenæum 11 Apr. 447/1 Customary with the Natchez, Muizcas, Pokomames, Yuncas, and Incas of the American continent.
1959 E. Tunis Indians 82/2 The Natchez were Muskhogeans who lived on the Mississippi River.
1998 D. Upton Archit. in U.S. ii. 65 The Natchez..were the last Mississippian mound builders.
2. The language of the Natchez (now extinct).
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Gulf Penutian > Natchez-Muskogean
Coushatta1836
Natchez1836
Choctaw1880
Muskogean1885
1836 Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 2 96 These five languages, the Muskhogee and the Hitchittee, the Uchee, the Natches, and the Alibamon or Coosada are, it is believed, the only ones spoken by the different tribes of the Creek confederacy.
1891 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 97 The Taensa language is considered to be a branch of the Na'htchi.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 99 An ‘Eastern Group’ comprising Siouan-Yuchi and Natchez-Muskogian.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 773/2 The isolates included..Tunica, and Natchez... The last two may be distantly related to Muskogean... All are now extinct.
1997 L. Campbell Amer. Indian Langs. 305/2 Natchez is considered an isolate, but some linguists are still sympathetic to the idea of a Natchez-Muskogean relationship.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Natchez.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [adjective]
Cherokee1674
Chickasaw1726
Yamasee1741
Natchez1744
Alabama1775
Coushatta1775
Alabaman1818
Santee1833
Mobilian1840
Karankawa1852
Muskogee1891
Opelousa1911
1744 in J. Swanton Indian Tribes Lower Mississippi Valley (1911) 254 Seven Catawbas had been barbarously murdered by the Notchee Indians, who live among them.
1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. II. 252 Had it not been for a Natché Indian..I should have been lost in a whirlpool.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 86 In the year 1747, a Nachee warrior told me, that while one of their prophets was using his divine invocation for rain..he was killed with thunder on the spot.
1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 340 Disinterred skulls from the Natchez area.
1873 Galaxy Aug. 258 Many of the colonists contracted unions with Indian women, especially of the Natchez tribe.
1949 M. Mead Male & Female 396 This was done..by certain women in Natchez Indian society.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 145 My Natchez informant..told about the great removal.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 387/1 [The trace] ran roughly north and south some 600 miles from the loess bluffs of the Natchez Indians into the game-filled hunting grounds of the Cumberland River Valley.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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