sunk squawn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌŋk skwɔː/, U.S.

/ˈsəŋk ˌskwɔ/,

/ˈsəŋk ˌskwɑ/

Forms: 1600s sunck squa, 1600s sunck squaw, 1600s sunk squa, 1600s sunke squaw, 1600s zank squa (plural), 1600s– sunk squaw.

Origin: A borrowing from an Algonquian language.

Etymology: < a Southern New England Algonquian compound (compare Massachusett sonksq , sonkusq queen, mistress, Narragansett saunks queen, sachem’s wife; < the base of Massachusett sontim , Narragansett sâchim sachem n. + an unstressed variant of the word for ‘woman’; compare Massachusett -usq and the stressed form Narragansett squàw squaw n.), with remodelling of the second element after squaw n.Compare the following, apparently isolated example of a shortening based on a reinterpretation of the word as an English compound; the passage is apparently based on a much shorter account by Ezra Stiles, who refers to the woman as squaw and his Pequot wife (1761):1804 A. Holmes in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. IX. 83 (note) Awaking one night,..and finding his sunck [queen] lying near another Indian, he..took his knife, and cut three strokes on each of her cheeks.

Now historical.

Among the North American Indian peoples of southern New England and eastern Long Island, New York: a woman of a ruling family; a queen or female chief ruling in her own right, or the wife, sister, or daughter of a sachem or chief (see sachem n. 1). Cf. squaw sachem n. at squaw n. Compounds 2.

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society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > native American > female

squaw sachem1622

sunk squaw1661

1661 in H. P. Hedges Hist. East-Hampton (1897) 206 I, the Sunk Squa of Meantuck, wife of Wiandanch, of late years Deceased.

1677 W. Hubbard Present State New-Eng. i. 105 The same Indians..and their Sunke Squaw, or chief Woman of that Indian Plantation.

1797 B. Trumbull Compl. Hist. Connecticut xiv. 347 The six Narraganset sachems, and the sunk squaw or old queen of Narraganset.

1889 E. H. Schenk Hist. Fairfield I. iv. 179 A treaty was effected between the Narragansett sachems and their ‘sunk squaw’.

1906 Proc. N.Y. State Hist. Assoc. 6 177 Oniskethau..is said to have been the name of a Sunk-squa, or sachem's wife.

1949 M. E. Bell in P. Bailey Long Island I. viii. 228 His mother, known as the Sunk Squaw, was the actual ruler.

2015 N. Shoemaker Native Amer. Whalemen & World v. 100 Awashonks was the sunksquaw..who early on in King Philip's War faced no choice but to submit her people to English subjection.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sunk squaw
释义	sunk squawn. Brit. /ˈsʌŋk skwɔː/, U.S. /ˈsəŋk ˌskwɔ/, /ˈsəŋk ˌskwɑ/ Forms: 1600s sunck squa, 1600s sunck squaw, 1600s sunk squa, 1600s sunke squaw, 1600s zank squa (plural), 1600s– sunk squaw. Origin: A borrowing from an Algonquian language. Etymology: < a Southern New England Algonquian compound (compare Massachusett sonksq , sonkusq queen, mistress, Narragansett saunks queen, sachem’s wife; < the base of Massachusett sontim , Narragansett sâchim sachem n. + an unstressed variant of the word for ‘woman’; compare Massachusett -usq and the stressed form Narragansett squàw squaw n.), with remodelling of the second element after squaw n.Compare the following, apparently isolated example of a shortening based on a reinterpretation of the word as an English compound; the passage is apparently based on a much shorter account by Ezra Stiles, who refers to the woman as squaw and his Pequot wife (1761):1804 A. Holmes in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. IX. 83 (note) Awaking one night,..and finding his sunck [queen] lying near another Indian, he..took his knife, and cut three strokes on each of her cheeks. Now historical. Among the North American Indian peoples of southern New England and eastern Long Island, New York: a woman of a ruling family; a queen or female chief ruling in her own right, or the wife, sister, or daughter of a sachem or chief (see sachem n. 1). Cf. squaw sachem n. at squaw n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > native American > female squaw sachem1622 sunk squaw1661 1661 in H. P. Hedges Hist. East-Hampton (1897) 206 I, the Sunk Squa of Meantuck, wife of Wiandanch, of late years Deceased. 1677 W. Hubbard Present State New-Eng. i. 105 The same Indians..and their Sunke Squaw, or chief Woman of that Indian Plantation. 1797 B. Trumbull Compl. Hist. Connecticut xiv. 347 The six Narraganset sachems, and the sunk squaw or old queen of Narraganset. 1889 E. H. Schenk Hist. Fairfield I. iv. 179 A treaty was effected between the Narragansett sachems and their ‘sunk squaw’. 1906 Proc. N.Y. State Hist. Assoc. 6 177 Oniskethau..is said to have been the name of a Sunk-squa, or sachem's wife. 1949 M. E. Bell in P. Bailey Long Island I. viii. 228 His mother, known as the Sunk Squaw, was the actual ruler. 2015 N. Shoemaker Native Amer. Whalemen & World v. 100 Awashonks was the sunksquaw..who early on in King Philip's War faced no choice but to submit her people to English subjection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661
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