单词 | nipmuc |
释义 | Nipmucadj.n. A. adj. (attributive). Designating, of, or relating to the Nipmucs (see sense B.) or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Massachusett1622 Pequot1634 Nipmuc1636 Mohican1637 Natick1677 Minisink1694 Algonquin1698 Passamaquoddy1726 Penobscot1727 Abenaki1746 Micmac1767 Maliseet1770 Munsee1779 Powhatan1785 Mashpee1809 Powhatanic1855 Virginia Algonquian1870 Wampanoag1948 Mashpee Wampanoag1977 1636 R. Williams Let. in G. W. LaFantasie Corr. Roger Williams (1988) I. 55 It is of maine Consequence to take some course with the Wunnashowatuckoogs and Wusquowhanawkits, who are the further most Neepnet men. 1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. xvii. 107 The varietie of their Dialects..is very great, as appeares in that word,..Alùm, The Neepmuck Dialect. 1675 Present State New-Eng. 12 His father made him go with him to the Nipmoog Indians. 1776 N. Fiske Remarkable Providence 9 Governor Hutchinson in his History says, the Nipnet or Nipmuck Indians ambush'd the party that went to treat with them at Meminimisset. 1797 B. Trumbull Compl. Hist. Connecticut iii. 31 On the northeasterly and northern part of the colony, were the Nipmuck Indians. Their principal seat was about the great ponds in Oxford, in Massachusetts, but their territory extended southward into Connecticut. 1860 E. Washburn Hist. Sketches Town of Leicester 6 The township of Leicester lay in the heart of what was known as the Nipnet or Nipmuc country. 1885 Bay State Monthly Aug. 164 Along its [sc. Lake Quinsigamond's] shores the Nipmuck Indians are said to have lived and hunted. 1993 B. Mukherjee Holder of World (1994) 20 In Hannah's time it was Indian country: smack in the middle of Nipmuc land with Mohican and Narragansett to the south, Pennacook and Abnaki on the north. 2001 Columbian (Electronic ed.) 30 Mar. Gover and Anderson reversed the findings of their staffs to grant tribal status not only to the Chinook, but also to the Duamish Indians..and to the Nipmuc Indians of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. B. n. A member of any of several Algonquian-speaking North American Indian peoples formerly inhabiting parts of central Massachusetts and adjacent Connecticut and Rhode Island. Also, in later use: a member of any of several groups claiming descent from these.The original Nipmucs appear to have been similar in language but not politically allied. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Powhatan1608 Mohicanc1614 Massachusett1616 Penobscot1624 Pequot1631 Narragansett1637 Nipmuc1637 Algonquin1667 Wampanoag1676 Minisink1694 Abenaki1698 Lenape1728 Maliseet1749 Munsee1756 Passamaquoddy1759 Micmac1760 Podunk1797 Algic1839 Virginia Algonquian1903 1637 R. Williams Let. 2 June in G. W. LaFantasie Corr. Roger Williams (1988) I. 83 Your late message to the Neepmucks..hath wrought this Effect, that..they brought this present weeke divers baskets of their Nokehick and chesnuts to Canounicus. 1677 D. Gookin Hist. Christian Indians in Archaeologia Americana (1836) 2 449 To speak with the Nipmucks, before they broke into hostility. 1749 W. Douglass Summary First Planting Brit. Settlem. N.-Amer. I. 188 The Nipmugs..formerly known by the Names of Cutamogs or Nipnets in the Townships and Districts of Dudley, Oxford, Woodstock, Killinsbay, and Douglas. 1834 S. G. Drake Biogr. & Hist. Indians Amer. iii. vi. 88 Philip and the Narragansets separated themselves from the Nipmuks and other inland tribes and..went off to their own country. 1855 H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. V. 223 These Indians from the interior were known and called among the tribes upon the sea-shore by the general name of Nipmucks, or fresh water Indians. 1894 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. II. 103 Son of a fish–hawk! let him dig his clams For some vile daughter of the Agawams, Or coward Nipmucks! 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 74/2 The Nashua dwelling further N., are sometimes classed with the Nipmuc, but were rather a distinct body. 1945 C. M. Webster Town meeting Country ii. 12 The Nipmucks to the north were less belligerent and..were dominated by the aggressive Pequots. 1997 World & I (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. 118 The Swift River Valley remains a land of many waters but in a form the Nipmuc and the valley's former residents would barely comprehend. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1636 |
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