单词 | quiché |
释义 | Quichén.1adj. A. n.1 1. A member of a people inhabiting the western highlands of Guatemala. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America Chichimeca1578 Miskito1697 Tiwa1710 Nahuatlaca1775 Otomi1782 Aztec1787 Mazahua1787 Mixteca1787 Totonac1787 Zapotec1797 Chichimec1809 Quiché1823 Mayo1829 Seri1829 Mixtec1852 Olmec1852 Mogollon1855 Mimbres1859 Yaqui1861 Cuna1868 Tzeltal1868 Nahuatl1873 Huastec1874 Tarahumara1874 Tlapanec1874 Bribri1875 Nahua1875 Mangue1876 Mazatec1878 Subtiaba1891 Tequistlatec1891 Trique1891 Nahuatlan1897 Huichol1900 Mixtecan1900 Tarascan1931 Mixe–Zoque1957 Mixteco1972 Garifuna1977 Mixean1982 Garinagu1983 Mixe–Zoquean1989 1823 J. Baily tr. D. Juarros Statistical & Commerc. Hist. Guatemala ii. ii. 168 It may be inferred..that the greater part of the province of Sapotitlan,..was a colony of the Quichées [Sp. Quichées]. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 208/1 After this comes the creation of the four men and their wives who are the ancestors of the Quichés. 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 69 These Quichés and Cakchiquels from the hills are as foreign in the white and ladino capital as Nepalese in the Punjab. 1963 Times 7 May 14/6 It is told that they [sc. the Solola] were jealous of the Quiche and appealed for help to the Spaniards, who sent de Alvarado to liquidate them. 1992 Independent 4 Aug. 8/1 It was in 1982 that Rigoberta Menchu, a young indigenous Quiche from Guatemala, first told her story to a conference in Geneva. 2. The Mayan language of this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Mexican Penutian > Mayan > Mayan languages Kekchi1823 Quiché1823 Huastec1845 Tzeltal1868 Tzotzil1874 1823 J. Baily tr. D. Juarros Statistical & Commerc. Hist. Guatemala ii. vi. 198 No one of the kingdoms of the New World has so many different languages as Guatemala; the following 26 being peculiar to it, viz. Quiché [Sp. Quiché]..Quecchi. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 404 The twenty-seven letters of Landa are explained as follows:..(3) a = a, the leg (in Quiche). 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 794 Highland Maya, of upland Guatemala, speaking languages like Quiché, Cakchiquel, and Mam. 1968 Language 44 191 It is in Quiché that the fascinating legends and history of the Popol vuh, ‘the sacred book of the ancient Quichés’, were recorded. 2005 U.S. Fed News (Nexis) 1 Nov. Languages: Spanish, 24 indigenous languages (principally Kiche, Kaqchikel, Q'eqchi, and Mam). B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating this people or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > peoples of Central America Chichimeca1726 Aztec1787 Miskito1789 Chichimec1811 Quiché1823 Mayo1829 Seri1829 Otomi1843 Mimbres1856 Nahuatl1858 Yaqui1861 Zapotec1861 Tzeltal1868 Tlapanec1874 Mixtec1875 Bribri1876 Mangue1876 Nahua1876 Nahuatlaca1877 Mixe1888 Trique1891 Mazatecan1892 Subtiaba1892 Huichol1900 Cuna1905 Mixteca1911 Subtiaban1911 Tarascan1911 Tarahumara1912 Zapotecan1922 Tzotzil1939 Mixe–Zoquean1940 Tiwa1950 Mixteco1959 Kekchi1960 1823 J. Baily tr. D. Juarros Statistical & Commerc. Hist. Guatemala ii. ii. 168 In all these places the Quiché language [Sp. la lengua Quiché] is spoken. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 208/1 The Popol-Vuh or national book of the Quiché kingdom of Guatemala. 1933 A. Huxley Let. 24 Mar. (1969) 368 From there to Chichicastenango, which is the centre of the native life of the Quiché Indians, who thickly inhabit the plateaus. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 353/1 Written records of Quiché history and mythology are preserved in the Popol Vuh, written down in the Quiché language..shortly after conquest by the Spaniards in 1524. 1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves i. 29 An acculturated Kiché tribeswoman once told me that she'd worn her first pair of shoes when she was twenty years old. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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