单词 | neusiok |
释义 | Neusiokn.adj. Now historical. A. n. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting eastern North Carolina. Usually in unchanged plural: the Neusiok people collectively.The language and affiliation of the Neusiok are unknown. ΚΠ 1585 T. Hariot in D. B. Quinn Roanoke Voyages (1955) I. ( (map) facing p. 461) Newasiwac. 1590 R. Hakluyt True Pictvres Virginia (map) in T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia (new ed.) Neuusiooc. 1654 F. Yeardley Let. in A. Salley Narr. Early Carolina (1911) 27 He had one more negro, leiger with a great nation called the Newxes. 1894 J. Mooney Siouan Tribes of East 7 The Neusiok, who in 1585 lived just south of the Neuse estuary..may also have been Algonquian. 1942 J. R. Swanton in Amer. Anthropologist (1943) 45 637 The ending -k or -c is usually a sign that we have a name obtained through an Algonquian tongue, whether or not the tribe were Algonquian. In the case of the Neusiok I have suspected an Iroquian people. 1967 Ethnohistory 14 27 The textual and cartographic sources..indicate the existence of..the Neusiok around the mouth of the Neuse River. 1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XV. 282 The Coree and Neusiok.., who during their later history were called the Neuse River Indians, lived southeast of the Tuscarora settlement area. 1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XV. 282 On the basis of their ethnic or tribal names..the Neusiok and Coree were possibly Iroquoian. B. adj. Of or relating to the Neusiok. ΚΠ 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 234 Neus Indians, Towns 2, Chattooka, Rouconk, Fighting Men 15. 1970 William & Mary Q. 27 269 The Coree (Coranine) and the Neuse (Neusiok) Indians of the sounds behind the Outer Banks are believed to have been in close contact with the Algonkian tribes farther north and so, probably, familiar with their speech. 2001 Chapel Hill (N. Carolina) Herald (Nexis) 6 May 14 There are about 2,000 [Coharie] tribe members, and they are descended from the Neusiok Indians. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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