Niloten.

Brit.

/ˈnʌɪləʊt/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪˌloʊt/

Forms: 1800s– Nilot Brit.

/ˈnʌɪlət/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪlət/, 1900s– Nilote.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: proper name Nile , -ote suffix.

Etymology: < the name of the river Nile (see Nile n.) + -ote suffix, after Hellenistic Greek Νειλώτης, noun (also adjective, feminine Νειλῶτις; compare classical Latin Nīlōtis, feminine adjective).

Chiefly Cultural Anthropology.

A person from the Upper Nile region of Sudan and East Africa; spec. a speaker of a Nilotic language. Cf. Nilotic adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [noun]

Nigritian1738

Sudan1799

Sudanese1826

Dinka1861

Sudani1874

fuzzy1890

fuzzy-wuzzy1892

Nilote1893

Nilotic1906

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt viii. 105 The Nilot is very different from the Cairene and the Alexandrian..; there is even a perceptible difference between the Delta man and the true Nilot of the upper river.

1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 8 The kings..oppressed the Nilots with these haughty janissaries.

1932 C. G. Seligman & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan i. 13 The Nilotes..are essentially proud, aloof, tenacious of their old beliefs and ideas, intensely religious, and by far the most introvert of the peoples of the Sudan.

1975 Sci. Amer. Dec. 85/1 They have long had links with the Amhara and the Galla of Ethiopia, and with the Arabs and the Nilotes of the Sudan.

1991 Rev. Anthropol. 20 38 Africa, he says, has been a ‘frontier continent’—the stage of many population movements of diverse kinds and dimensions, ranging from such sub-continental proto-historic dispersions as that of the Bantu or the Nilotes to the local movements preceding the colonial era.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nilote
释义	Niloten. Brit. /ˈnʌɪləʊt/, U.S. /ˈnaɪˌloʊt/ Forms: 1800s– Nilot Brit. /ˈnʌɪlət/, U.S. /ˈnaɪlət/, 1900s– Nilote. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: proper name Nile , -ote suffix. Etymology: < the name of the river Nile (see Nile n.) + -ote suffix, after Hellenistic Greek Νειλώτης, noun (also adjective, feminine Νειλῶτις; compare classical Latin Nīlōtis, feminine adjective). Chiefly Cultural Anthropology. A person from the Upper Nile region of Sudan and East Africa; spec. a speaker of a Nilotic language. Cf. Nilotic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [noun] Nigritian1738 Sudan1799 Sudanese1826 Dinka1861 Sudani1874 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 Nilote1893 Nilotic1906 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt viii. 105 The Nilot is very different from the Cairene and the Alexandrian..; there is even a perceptible difference between the Delta man and the true Nilot of the upper river. 1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 8 The kings..oppressed the Nilots with these haughty janissaries. 1932 C. G. Seligman & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan i. 13 The Nilotes..are essentially proud, aloof, tenacious of their old beliefs and ideas, intensely religious, and by far the most introvert of the peoples of the Sudan. 1975 Sci. Amer. Dec. 85/1 They have long had links with the Amhara and the Galla of Ethiopia, and with the Arabs and the Nilotes of the Sudan. 1991 Rev. Anthropol. 20 38 Africa, he says, has been a ‘frontier continent’—the stage of many population movements of diverse kinds and dimensions, ranging from such sub-continental proto-historic dispersions as that of the Bantu or the Nilotes to the local movements preceding the colonial era. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1893
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