单词 | black carib |
释义 | Black Caribn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a people descended from African former slaves and the indigenous Caribs of St Vincent in the Lesser Antilles, and subsequently dispersed over parts of the Central American mainland and some Caribbean islands, especially Roatan.Also called Garifuna, which is now the preferred term: see Garifuna n. 2; see also Garinagu n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [noun] > Carib Indian > peoples cannibal1553 Black Carib1767 Akawaio1769 Macusi1819 Taino1836 Motilon1852 Island Carib1938 1767 W. Young Let. 11 Apr. in Authentic Papers Exped. against Charibbs (1773) 6 The black Charibbs are easily distinguished from any other negroes, by a custom they have of flattening the foreheads of their infants. 1774 J. Campbell Polit. Surv. Brit. II. v. v. 681 Besides these [sc. the Caribs] there are another Race of People generally, though very improperly, styled Black Caribs. 1866 E. Vetromile Abnakis & their Hist. xvi. 131 The black Caribs..of St. Vincent sprung from the intercourse of black slaves and Caribbean women. 1893 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 6 Dec. 3/1 With a crew of six Black Caribs he was now skirting the Mosquito shore of Honduras. 1951 D. Taylor Black Carib of Brit. Honduras 41 The Black Carib of Central America speak a dialect of Island Carib. 2001 National Geographic Adventure Jan.–Feb. 22/1 Ariola traces his roots to the Garifuna, or Black Caribs; he explained that they're descended from African slaves..and Carib and Arawak Indians. 2. The Arawak language spoken by this people, the vocabulary of which is strongly influenced by Carib and other languages.Garifuna is now the preferred term for the language: see Garifuna n. 1. ΚΠ 1946 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 12 215/1 The few Carib words I was able to get on that island, as well as those given by Conzemius for the Black Carib. 1973 Lang. & Linguistics: Working Papers (Georgetown Univ.) No. 7. 114 The Black Carib, one of the Arawakan languages of South America, has the following rules for most of its verb phrases. 2008 H. Courtz Carib Gram. & Dict. 1 Garifuna is the autodenomination of the speakers of Black Carib, an Arawakan language which shows signs of past contacts with speakers of Carib. B. adj. Of or relating to this people or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [adjective] > Carib Indian Caribbee1627 Carib1644 Black Carib1797 Macusi1841 Motilon1913 1797 Star 28 Apr. The last of the Black Carib Indians were embarked on board transports, which failed for the Island of Ratan. 1834 R. M. Martin Hist. Brit. Colonies II. vi. 301 A Frenchman having produced to a Black Carib Chief a deed of land that he had purchased of a Yellow Carib. 1941 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 678 Hugh Heyne Smythe has left for British Honduras, where he plans to make a study of ‘Black Carib Culture’. 1951 D. M. Taylor Black Carib of Brit. Honduras 88 The Black Carib word, phonemically kúnig, has no other meaning. 1968 J. C. Hefley Peril by Choice xvi. 198 Another ancient residual John noticed in Black Carib speech, was a dual male and female way of speaking some words. 1999 F. Salomon & S. B. Schwartz Cambr. Hist. Native Peoples of Amer. III. ii. 470 Black Carib language, cassava-based horticulture, polygny..all recall Caribbean Amerindian traditions. 2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 15 Sept. j4 Visit a Black Carib settlement in Punta Gorda,..and perfect beaches on lonely islands. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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