单词 | songhees |
释义 | Songheesn.adj. A. n. 1. With plural agreement: a Coast Salish people living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and on the San Juan Islands in Washington State. With singular agreement: a member of this people. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun] Slave1789 beaver1801 Carrier1801 Musqueam1808 Nootkian1811 Okanagan1814 Takulli1820 Dogrib1823 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Bella Coola1834 Nootkan1835 Chilkat1836 Nootka1846 Squamish1846 Siwash1847 Kwakiutl1848 Nitinaht1848 Sitkan1848 Sitka1853 Makah1855 Stick Indian1857 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Mattole1864 Tlingit1865 Nisga'a1874 Hoochinoo1878 Nimpkish1885 Tsimshian1888 Gitksan1889 Nuxalk1910 Snohomish1910 Nuu-chah-nulth1983 Ditidaht1988 'Namgis1994 1860 G. Hills Let. 14 Mar. in Occas. Paper Columbia Mission June 16 We met the chief of one tribe—the Songish. 1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. xii. 522 The Songhies said the hunter was transformed into a deer, the fisherman into a fish. 1912 E. Fawcett Some Reminisc. Old Victoria xl. 283 (heading) Evolution of the Songhees. 1954 Beaver Sept. 52/2 Shortly after the fort was established in 1843, the Songhees moved their camp to the immediate vicinity.., much to the annoyance of the traders. 2010 Urban Hist. Rev. 38 5/1 The Indigenous Lekwungen people, known by Europeans as ‘Songhees’. 2. The language spoken by this people.This language is a dialect of North Straits Salish. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Salish > Salish languages Okanagan1827 Spokane1875 Nisqually1877 Twana1886 Songhees1911 Shuswap1927 Tillamook1927 Squamish1934 Snohomish1940 Lushootseed1976 Skokomish1977 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 80/1 Salishan, the name of a linguistic family of North American Indian tribes, the more important of which [include] the Salish.., Skokomish, Songeesh, Spokan and Tulalip. 1973 L. C. Thompson in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics 10 1010 The rest of the dialects extend from Lummi..across to Songish (Lkungen) around modern Victoria, on Vancouver Island. 2001 Anthropol. Ling. 43 179 He does not mention his source for Songhees (a dialect of Northern Straights and, as such, closely related to Lummi). B. adj. Of or relating to the Songhees. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective] Dogrib1766 Nootka1784 Nootkan1790 Dog-ribbed1791 beaver1801 Okanagan1814 Carrier1820 Sitka1822 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Nass1830 Tsimshian1836 Sitkan1851 Makah1855 Snohomish1856 Wakash1856 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Nisga'a1874 Tlingit1881 Nimpkish1886 Wakashan1892 Musqueam1902 Gitksan1917 Squamish1928 'Namgis1966 Nuu-chah-nulth1978 Nuxalk1981 1860 Brit. Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Mar. 2/3 About 75 Cape Flattery Indians arrived in canoes yesterday..on a visit to the Songish tribe. 1865 M. Macfie Vancouver & Brit. Columbia xvi. 430 The Songhish tribe, resident near Victoria, hold a general merry-making annually in..October. 1912 E. Fawcett Some Reminisc. Old Victoria xl. 283 I often pass through the Songhees Reserve. 1972 Syesis 5 271/2 Galiano and Valdes..transported a friendly chief..to Esquimalt Harbour in Songhees territory. 2007 S. Banner Possessing the Pacific (2009) 207 A Songhees woman carries a basket of fish in this photograph by the prolific Victorian photographer Frederick Dally. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1860 |
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