单词 | nisqually |
释义 | Nisquallyadj.n. A. adj. Of, relating to, or designating a North American Indian people inhabiting the lower Nisqually River south of the Puget Sound in Washington State, now resident in Thurston County, Washington State; (also) designating their Salishan language (see sense B. 2). ΚΠ 1824 J. Work Jrnl. in Washington Hist. Q. (1912) iii. 212 The Nisqualy Indians speak a language different from any we have seen yet. 1833 W. F. Tolmie Jrnl. (1963) 227 Got from Lachalet a copious vocabulary of the Nusqually Dialect. 1838 W. Kitson Jrnl. 22 Apr. in C. S. Carpenter Fort Nisqually (1986) xiii. 94 A band of upper Nisqually Indians have arrived for the purpose of getting one of La-ha-let's daughters for a wife. 1874 Overland Monthly Oct. 302/2 There lived on the opposite main-land, in rude affluence, a powerful Nisqually chief, who had one daughter, the pearl of his prosperity. 1950 M. W. Smith Fighting with Property 106 If two Nisqually warriors met there was first a psychological show-down often resulting in a stalemate. 1974 D. Niatum Ascending Red Cedar Moon 4 Nisqually women Turn to the river, dance to its song. 1994 Denver Post 7 Aug. t3/1 Native tales grew around the mountain, which, in varying legends, was at one time a Nisqually Indian maiden or chief's wife. B. n. 1. A member of the Nisqually people. ΚΠ 1829 G. Simpson Journey to Columbia (1947) 46 The coast is numerously inhabited by Indians, whose villages are situated at the outlets of the principal streams..the different Nations deriving their Names from those Rivers, as the Sanish, Sincoolomets..Powalips, Nisqualies, Soquams and Clalems. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 183 Mr. Gibbs states that the frog-wife story exists in a modified form among the Nisquallies and other tribes also. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 76/2 Nisqualli. A Salish tribe on and about the river of the same name flowing into the s. extension of Puget s[oun]d. 1941 Amer. Anthropologist 43 203 I should..like to suggest an elevenfold division of these Sound peoples: the Sahehwamish, Squakson, Puyallup, Nisqually, [etc.]. 2000 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 13 July 23 Looks are only one of many remarkable attributes of the clam that the native Nisquallies called gweduc. 2. The Salishan language of the Nisqually people, a dialect of Lushootseed. Cf. Lushootseed n.Because Nisqually was the first dialect of Lushootseed to be studied, Nisqually as a linguistic term has sometimes been used without specific reference to this dialect to refer to Lushootseed in general. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Salish > Salish languages Okanagan1827 Spokane1875 Nisqually1877 Twana1886 Songhees1911 Shuswap1927 Tillamook1927 Squamish1934 Snohomish1940 Lushootseed1976 Skokomish1977 1877 G. Gibbs Tribes W. Washington in Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. I. 178 The bands occupying Puget Sound..all speak the same dialect, the Niskwalli proper. 1886 M. Eells Ten Years Missionary Work vi. 37 We have often sung in English, Chinook jargon, Twana, and Nisgually, on the same Sabbath. 1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 301 Puget Sound Salish..D[ialect]s... Nisqualli. 1998 Canad. Geographic July 21/1 Chinook jargon borrowed geoduck from Nisqually (Puget Salish). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1824 |
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