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单词 ona
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Onan.adj.

Brit. /ˈəʊnə/, /əʊˈnɑː/, U.S. /ˈoʊnə/, /oʊˈnɑ/
Inflections: Plural Onas, unchanged.
Forms: 1800s– Ona, 1900s– Aona.
Origin: A borrowing from Yahgan. Etymon: Yahgan ona.
Etymology: < Yahgan ona person.The first reference to the people in English context occurs in a slightly different form in the following:1834 C. Darwin Diary 12 Feb. (1933) 210 Jemmy Button had a great horror of these men, under the name of ‘Owen's men’. ‘When the leaf is red’, he used to say, ‘Owen's men come over the hill & fight very much’.1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) x. 220 The savage Oens men..crossed the mountains from the eastern coast of Tierra del Fuego.
Now historical.
A. n.
1. A member of a South American Indian people formerly inhabiting the islands of Tierra del Fuego.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > Indians of South America
Patagona1544
Mochica1581
Arawak1596
Arawakan1596
Tapuia1613
Quechua1688
Galibi1698
Abipon1717
Pehuenche1756
Patagonian1767
Amazonian Indian1769
Warao1769
Tehuelche1774
Abiponian1786
two-finger1796
Guarani1797
Shipibo1805
Araucanian1809
Tupinamba1810
Muisca1814
Pampas Indian1820
Guaycuru1822
Lengua1822
Fuegian1825
Wapishana1836
Wai Wai1840
Yucatec1843
Tupi1845
Tupi-Guarani1850
Amazonian1858
Aymara1860
Jivaro1862
Lokono1868
Quechuan1871
Yucatecan1871
Yunca1871
Mapuche1876
Chibcha1877
Ona1884
Yahgan1884
Terena1891
Xavante1904
urubu1948
Saramaccan1959
Yanomamö1965
Mochican1967
1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 99 The archipelago is occupied by three races, the Alacalufs in the west, the Onas in the east, and the Yagans in the south.
1904 W. S. Barclay in Geogr. Jrnl. 23 62 The Onas of Tierra del Fuego.
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xi. 192 The Ona..solve most of their problems by an appeal to shamanism.
1961 G. Clark Prehistory ix. 238 The Yahgan and their neighbours the Ona and Alacu maintained down to modern times the most southerly settlements of mankind.
1994 New Leader (Nexis) 14 Mar. 10 The last full-blooded Ona died in 1982.
2. The Chon language spoken by the Onas.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Andean Amerindian languages
Araucanian1809
Aymara1860
Ona1911
Jivaro1927
Shipibo1948
1911 Amer. Anthropologist 13 94 The author..was born at the Mission of Ushuaia..and learned the Ona language from childhood, which makes this the most accurate vocabulary of Ona in existence.
1946 J. M. Cooper in Handbk. of S. Amer. Indians I. 108 In contrast to Yahgan, Ona is characterized by explosives and gutturals.
1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. 319 Puelche and Tehuelche are spoken on the Argentine plains, and Alacaluf, Yahgan, and Ona in the island fringe.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 797/2 Languages..like Ona and Tehuelche, with almost no affixing, are also rare.
B. adj.
1. Belonging or relating to the Onas.
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1904 W. S. Barclay in Geogr. Jrnl. 23 69 They make use of an elusive, half-breathed final n, which in ordinary conversation is inaudible to all but Ona ears.
1924 R. Kent Voy. Southward from Strait of Magellan 183 I have crossed the mountains from Haberton to Lago Fognano, and seen there Ona maidens so ravishingly beautiful that one must marvel how I ever parted from them.
1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Jan. 14/5 The last survivor of the Ona Indians, a tribe that lived in Tierra del Fuego.., has died near Punta Arenas in extreme southern Chile.
1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 96/2 [The women explained] how to distinguish an Ona Indian brushwood shelter from another built by the Yahgans.
2. Of or relating to the Chon language spoken by the Onas.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Andean languages
Araucanian1809
Taino1836
Aymaran1902
Ona1911
1911 Amer. Anthropologist 13 94 The author..was born at the Mission of Ushuaia..and learned the Ona language from childhood, which makes this the most accurate vocabulary of Ona in existence.
1917 J. M. Cooper Analyt. & Crit. Bibliogr. of Tribes of Tierra del Fuego 53 Very little has been published on Ona morphology.
1967 J. M. Cooper Analyt. & Crit. Bibliography of Tribes of Tierra Del Fuego 120 Señor Popper did not learn the Ona language, but used an interpreter.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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n.adj.1884
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