单词 | penobscot |
释义 | Penobscotn.adj. A. n. a. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting the valley of the Penobscot River in the state of Maine. 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 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 240 The Masachusets call their great God Kiehtan, and their Kings there abouts Sachems: The Penobscotes their greatest power Tantum, and their Kings Sagomos. 1713 in Maine Hist. Soc. Coll. (1859) VI. 253 In Witness whereof, We,..by name, Kireberuit, Iteansis, and Jackoit, for Penobscot,..have hereunto set our hands and seals. 1856 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 154 Cutters down of wood, and haulers of it to the Penobscot, or..Kennebec. 1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest xx De Ramezay had affairs with the Abenaqui chiefs of the Penobscot. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 226/2 The Penobscot took an active part in all the wars on the New England frontier up to 1749, when they made a treaty of peace, and have remained quiet ever since. 1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 135 There are some Algonquian Indians still living along the New England coast,..but except for a few older Penobscot, all speak English. 1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart 824 What appears to have been this same meteor was witnessed by such tribes as the Tadosac, the western..Penobscot. b. The Algonquian language spoken by the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abnaki. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages Illinois1703 Ojibwa1743 Chippewa1791 Shawnee1792 Miami-Illinois1804 Natick1822 Delaware1826 Munsee1828 Nanticoke1845 Blackfoot1846 Pequot1848 Potawatomi1848 Wiyot1851 Montagnais1852 Passamaquoddy1856 Abenaki1858 Narragansett1866 Lenape1888 Penobscot1891 Powhatan1895 Menominee1896 Micmac1902 Meskwaki1907 Maliseet1912 Cheyenne1933 Kickapoo1933 Massachusett1933 Mohican1933 Sauk1933 Virginia Algonquian1971 Ottawa1982 1891 J. C. Pilling Bibliogr. Algonquian Lang. 110/2 A short catechism in Penobscot begins on page 47. 1902 Amer. Anthropologist 4 27 The distinction between animate and inanimate gender is still preserved in both Penobscot and Abenaki. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 72 The Algonquian family..includes the languages..of New England (Penobscot..). 1981 D. H. Pentland in Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 24 ii. 240 It is to be hoped that Siebert will soon publish not only the dictionary, but also a full-scale grammar of Penobscot, since there is remarkably little in print about this almost extinct language. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Penobscot 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 the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages > eastern Narragansett1622 Natick1677 Penobscot1819 Micmac1892 1727 J. Heath Let. 7 July in Maine Hist. Soc. Coll. (1853) III. 409 If Capt. Gyles..can steer the Penobscot Indians to Falmouth, it seems as though these may follow. 1779 S. Lovell Orig. Jrnl. Penobscot Exped. (1881) 97 We are visited by some Penobscot Indians who are determined to proceed with us. 1819 N. Amer. Rev. June 184 A specimen of the Penobscot dialect (which we obtained from a friend in the District of Maine). 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 32 I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 28 (advt.) McBride's vividly told biography recounts the life of a remarkable Penobscot Indian woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1624 |
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