单词 | pawnee |
释义 | Pawneen.1adj. A. n.1 1. a. A member of a group of North American Indian peoples originally inhabiting the Loup, Platte, and Republican River valleys in Nebraska, and now mainly in Oklahoma.The Pawnee comprise four autonomous bands: the Chawi (Grand Pawnee), Kitkahahki (Republican Pawnee), Pitahawirata (Tapage Pawnee), and the Skidi (Pawnee Maha n. or Pawnee Loup n.).The term is also sometimes used in a wider sense to include other Northern Caddoan peoples, esp. the Wichita (cf. sense A. 2) and Arikara. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Pawnee confederacy Pawnee1698 the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Pawnee confederacy > members Pawnee1698 Pawnee Maha1698 Pawnee1770 Republican Pawnee1797 Pawnee Pict1805 Pawnee Loup1806 Pawnee Republican1806 Skidi1823 Pawnee Republic1836 1698 L. Hennepin New Discov. x. 47 The Paneassas, the Panas, the Panelogas and the Matotantes, none of which are inferiour to the Panimahas. 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 16 There are many other Nations upon the same [river].., as the Panimaha's, Pancassa's [read Paneassa's], Pana's, Paneloga's, Matotantes. 1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 135 They likewise tell us that these Indians are always at war with the Panis. 1767 J. Carver Jrnls. (1976) 138 About the head of the Missouri are many Indian bands called in general Pawnees or Pawnanes signifying slaves. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 118 This is the road they take when their war parties make their excursions upon the Pawnees. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. xi. 177 He will never see a Pawnee become a Sioux. 1841 J. Williams Jrnl. 26 Apr. in Narr. Tour to Oregon (1843) 7 The Caws..told me that the Pawnees were a bad nation, and that they had a battle with them. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. iii. 381 The Pawnees annually sacrificed a human victim in spring when they sowed their fields. 1901 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 163 The oldest Americans are the Pawnees. 1906 Amer. Anthropologist 8 340 In those days it was customary for the Pawnee to have their hair roached, but the Buffalo-man had long hair; so the enemy wanted to kill him and take his scalp. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 84/1 Some [tribes] had moved northward up the river valleys—the Pawnee to Nebraska, the Arikara to North Dakota, for instance. 1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman v. 75 When smallpox hit the region again in the 1830s, whatever was left of the Oto, Omaha and Missouri tribes merged with the Pawnee. b. The Northern Caddoan language of the Pawnee.Pawnee comprises two major dialects: South Band, spoken by the Chawi, Kitkahahki, and Pitahawirata bands, and Skidi (or Skiri). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Pawnee Pawnee1805 1805 W. Clark in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 400 [The language spoken by the Arikara is] Pania Corrupted. 1806 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 2 Oct. in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) App. ii. 48 I asked..[for] a Tetau prisoner who spoke Pawnee, to serve as an interpreter. 1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. (1898) 55 Mr. Roy—He Spoke Some Pane and (in) that language our Councils Ware Held. 1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society iii. iii. 440 In Mandan my brother's wife is my wife, and in Pawnee..the same. 1939 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 52 219 This tale was paraphrased into Pawnee from Grinnell's published English version by one of Dr. Weltfish's more sophisticated Pawnee interpreters. 1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 105 The structure of Pawnee as compared with Oneida. 1992 Independent 7 Apr. 20/1 A contention that the Navajo word for fire shares a root with the same word in Pawnee isn't exactly going to affect the price of potatoes. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Pawnee confederacy > members Pawnee1698 Pawnee Maha1698 Pawnee1770 Republican Pawnee1797 Pawnee Pict1805 Pawnee Loup1806 Pawnee Republican1806 Skidi1823 Pawnee Republic1836 1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 40 The Arcansas or Quapas Indians..bring in very frequently young prisoners and horses from the Cadodaquias, Paneise, Podoquias, &c. of which they dispose to the best advantage. 1854 R. B. Marcy & G. B. McClellan Explor. Red River (U.S. War Dept.) (new ed.) 2 It was their intention to leave their boats, and, after packing provisions on horses, which they were to purchase from the Pawnees, to proceed..to the top of the mountains. B. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or designating the Pawnee. ΚΠ 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. (1781) 47 The Saukies can raise about three hundred warriors, who are generally employed every summer in making incursions into the territories of the Illinois and Pawnee nations, from whence they return with a great number of slaves. 1806 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 22 Sept. in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 140 [I] met a Pawnee hunter. 1868 N.Y. Herald 31 July 5/3 A large band of the Sioux and Cheyennes had attacked a small party of the Pawnee scouts. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It ii. 22 We had no swallow-tail coats and white kid gloves to wear at Pawnee receptions in the Rocky Mountains. 1931 Amer. Speech 7 4 The ‘Indian reserves’ were frequently referred to as the ‘Pawnee lands’, ‘Otoe Lands’, or ‘Indian territory’. 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 78/4 Earlier, Mrs. Martha Gras, a 71-year-old Pawnee Indian, appeared to sum up the sentiment of the Indian gathering. 1992 Native Peoples Winter 20/2 Eventually, along the far western reaches of the trade route, a well-made Sioux or Pawnee pipe with a bowl carved from pipestone could be traded for a good horse. b. Of, relating to, or designating the Northern Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] American1625 Pawnee1806 Injun1839 Pano1851 Muskogean1889 1806 W. Clark Jrnl. 30 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1993) VIII. 330 I derected the men to Speak to them in the Pania and mahar Languages first. 1809 T. Jefferson Let. 21 Sept. in Writings (1984) 1212 On the receipt of your letter I turned to them [sc. Indian vocabularies], and was very happy to find, that the only morsel of an original vocabulary among them, was Captain Lewis's of the Pani language, of which you say you have not one word. 1894 Amer. Anthropologist 7 325 Certain letters in ordinary Pawnee discourse are interchangeable. 1929 Amer. Speech 5 115 Arikara is from the Pawnee word for ‘horn’, and refers to this people's practice of wearing their hair with two pieces of bone standing like horns on each side of the crest. 1956 Language 32 190 The reader may be surprised to find here no analysis of the Pawnee linguistic forms. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 319 The Pawnee language includes the South Band Pawnee and Skiri dialects. ΚΠ 1803 in C. E. Carter Territorial Papers U.S. (1940) IX. 74 The length of Red River is not known, it is Six or seven hundred Miles to the Pawnie or Towiash Indians. 1830 in C. E. Carter Territorial Papers U.S. (1954) XXI. 215 The settlers are in continual alarm from the Pawnee Indians. Compounds Pawnee Republic n. now historical = Pawnee Republican n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Pawnee confederacy > members Pawnee1698 Pawnee Maha1698 Pawnee1770 Republican Pawnee1797 Pawnee Pict1805 Pawnee Loup1806 Pawnee Republican1806 Skidi1823 Pawnee Republic1836 1806 in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1904–5) VI. 88 Panias, Loup, republicks.] 1836 L. Ford in Army & Navy Chron. 19 May 312/1 The Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republics, [etc.]..lie upon the Loup fork of the Platte, twenty or thirty miles distant from the Grand Pawnee village. 1917 G. F. Will & G. E. Hyde Corn among Indians 145 The Pawnee Republics had only enough corn to thicken their soup. Pawnee Republican n. now historical a member of a division of the Pawnee originally inhabiting the Republican River valley in southern Nebraska (the river being named after them or their settlement called the Pawnee Republic by Europeans); cf. Republican Pawnee n. at republican adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Pawnee confederacy > members Pawnee1698 Pawnee Maha1698 Pawnee1770 Republican Pawnee1797 Pawnee Pict1805 Pawnee Loup1806 Pawnee Republican1806 Skidi1823 Pawnee Republic1836 1806 in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) 9th Congress 2 Sess., App. 1045 Pānias proper and Pānias Republican live in the same village. 1836 W. Irving Astoria (1884) xvi. 128 The Pawnee republicans had inflicted a gross indignity on a favorite and distinguished Omaha brave. 1992 P. T. Stroud T. Say: New World Naturalist vii. 92 The Pawnee Republicans were hesitant and wary because of their past attack on Say's exploring party, and Major O'Fallon attempted to reassure them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pawneen.2 Chiefly Law. The person with whom something is pawned. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > one with whom pawn deposited pawnee1701 pledgee1737 1701 T. Goodinge Law against Bankrupts (new ed.) Index Mortgagees or Pawnees need not come in as Creditors. 1719 J. Lilly Pract. Reg. II. 564 Where goods are pawned, and the Money is tendred for them, it is as good as Payment, and the special Property of the Goods, which was in the Pawnee, is thereby revested in the Pawner. 1791 T. Leach in H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports (ed. 4) II. 245 (margin) Tender of the money to the executrix of a pawnee, and her refusal to restore the goods, revests them in the owner. 1866 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench 1 589 If the pawnee may repledge the pawn, the sub-pledgee may do the same. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 369 The pawnee could not become the purchaser. 1981 Halsbury's Laws Eng. XXXVI. 76 Where goods are pawned, the pawnee has the right to their possession and, until the money for which the pledge is a security is tendered or paid, is the only person who can sue in conversion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1adj.1698n.21701 |
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