Pimanadj.n.
/ˈpiːmən/, U.S. /ˈpimən/ A. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or designating a proposed family of languages including Pima–Papago, Opata, Cahita (Yaqui-Mayo), Cora, Tarahumara, Tepehuan, and others (now subsumed in the Uto-Aztecan family, within which it is the Sonoran branch according to some classifications); (more recently also) of, relating to, or designating the Pima-Papago language or languages. Cf. Papago adj., Pima adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Western America > [adjective] > Pueblo Indians
Papago1811
Moqui1818
Zuñian1885
Piman1891
Pueblan1895
Puebloan1905
Tanoan1909
Tewa1910
Tohono O'odham1986
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > Piman
Pima1811
Piman1891
1891 J. W. Powell in 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 98 (heading) Piman family.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Piman family (east of the Gulf of California).
1969 K. L. Hale in D. Saxton & L. Saxton Dict. Papago & Pima Introd. The Piman languages, of which Papago-Pima is the northernmost, are of considerable interest for the fact that they constitute a close-knit, well defined subfamily within Uto-Aztecan.
1999 J. Annerino Dead in their Tracks i. 14 In the Piman language, hohokam is said to mean ‘those who have vanished’.
2. Of or relating to a grouping of peoples including the Pimas and Papago, and (in some uses) certain other related peoples.
ΚΠ
1891 Amer. Anthropologist 4 291 The name was garbled by one of the Piman tribes.
1950 J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 501 Its major use has been by the Cáhita and Piman tribes and their neighbors, that is, in the area adjacent to the upper Gulf of California.
1973 B. L. Fontana in D. Saxton & L. Saxton Legends & Lore Papago & Pima Indians p. xi An important collection of heretofore widely scattered materials, much of it provided by Piman spokesmen many years ago.
1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 17 June 29/3 Gringo Tucson should have respected the riverbeds as the Piman and Mexican settlers did before.
B. n.
1. A proposed grouping of a number of Uto-Aztecan languages including Pima–Papago.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Central Amerindian languages > Uto-Aztecan > Pima
Pima1841
Piman1894
1894 Amer. Anthropologist 7 417 They..speak a tongue which is peculiar to them, but with many foreign words from Tanoan, Keresan, Piman, and other sources.
1936 B. L. Whorf in Ess. in Anthropol. presented to A. L. Kroeber 198 Piman,..one of the groups most unlike the groups with which we began the classification.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 79 He also includes Nahuatl and Sonoran (Piman).
2000 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen (Nexis) 25 Sept. 1 c The Tumacacori Mission Choir..will perform mission-period music in Latin, Spanish, Piman and Nahuatl (Aztec).
2. A member of an ethnic and linguistic group including the Pimas and Papago.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Western America > [noun] > Pueblo Indians
Moqui1759
Pima1829
pueblo1834
Zuñi1834
Papago1839
Pueblo Indian1844
Taos1844
Pueblan1875
Hopi1877
Picuris1883
Puebloan1883
Tanoan1891
Piman1900
Tewa1910
Keres1925
Tohono O'odham1987
1900 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 11 July 7/2 The Pimans of the Southwest, who claim to be the descendants of the Cliff Builders.
1942 E. F. Castetter & W. H. Bell Pima & Papago Indian Agric. 1 The Pimans, a name applied to the whole group of Pima-Papago in both Mexico and the United States, anciently extended in irregular distribution from southern Sonora to the Gila River.
1999 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen (Nexis) 9 Apr. 8 d Tubac presidio Captain Juan Batista de Anza III in 1760 caught a Piman scalping a Tubac soldier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.n.1891