Taungn.

Brit.

/taʊŋ/, U.S.

/taʊŋ/, South African English

/taʊŋ/

Forms: 1900s– Taung, 1900s– Taungs.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymons: proper name Taung, Taungs.

Etymology: < Taung, †Taungs (Setswana Taung; < tau lion, also used by members of a local group of people to refer to themselves + -ng, locative suffix), the name of a town in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa (now North West Province), where the remains were found in 1924.Setswana Taung is also used to denote a group of people in living in the area, and the form Taungs of the place name probably ultimately derives < an English plural form of the name of the Taung people (Setswana Bataung). The place name (in both forms) is attested earlier in English contexts:1842 R. Moffat Missionary Labours & Scenes S. Afr. xxxii. 591 At Taung.., where, including the Bamairis, there was a population of nearly twenty thousand souls, I preached to large congregations.1875 D. Arnot & F. H. S. Orpen Land Question Griqualand West 8 The sworn evidence of Nicholas Kruger..shows that the Treaty was executed at Taungs, and not at or near Kuruman.

Palaeontology.

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from the fossil skull of a juvenile found in a quarry at Taung, South Africa, which was the first fossil hominid discovered in Africa and was subsequently named Australopithecus africanus. Cf. Australopithecus n.

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the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective] > fossil found in specific location

Trinil1896

Talgai boy1918

Taung1925

Kanam1932

1925 Times 5 Feb. 11/4 What one hoped this Taungs skull would disclose..was that..the brain would show a greater development than that found in the ape, but a lesser development than that found in the Pithecanthropus skull.

1951 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) xlii. 402 Angle between foramen magnum and nasion in young... It is clear that the Taungs skull approaches the human condition in this respect.

1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins ix. 136/2 Judging the Taung specimen from tooth eruption to be around five years of age, the adult individual would have had a cranial capacity of 440 cc.

2000 Archaeology Nov. 88/2 The episode relies heavily on familiar South African sites interspersed with fun historic footage of Raymond Dart (of Taung child fame).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	taung
释义	Taungn. Brit. /taʊŋ/, U.S. /taʊŋ/, South African English /taʊŋ/ Forms: 1900s– Taung, 1900s– Taungs. Origin: From a proper name. Etymons: proper name Taung, Taungs. Etymology: < Taung, †Taungs (Setswana Taung; < tau lion, also used by members of a local group of people to refer to themselves + -ng, locative suffix), the name of a town in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa (now North West Province), where the remains were found in 1924.Setswana Taung is also used to denote a group of people in living in the area, and the form Taungs of the place name probably ultimately derives < an English plural form of the name of the Taung people (Setswana Bataung). The place name (in both forms) is attested earlier in English contexts:1842 R. Moffat Missionary Labours & Scenes S. Afr. xxxii. 591 At Taung.., where, including the Bamairis, there was a population of nearly twenty thousand souls, I preached to large congregations.1875 D. Arnot & F. H. S. Orpen Land Question Griqualand West 8 The sworn evidence of Nicholas Kruger..shows that the Treaty was executed at Taungs, and not at or near Kuruman. Palaeontology. Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from the fossil skull of a juvenile found in a quarry at Taung, South Africa, which was the first fossil hominid discovered in Africa and was subsequently named Australopithecus africanus. Cf. Australopithecus n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective] > fossil found in specific location Trinil1896 Talgai boy1918 Taung1925 Kanam1932 1925 Times 5 Feb. 11/4 What one hoped this Taungs skull would disclose..was that..the brain would show a greater development than that found in the ape, but a lesser development than that found in the Pithecanthropus skull. 1951 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) xlii. 402 Angle between foramen magnum and nasion in young... It is clear that the Taungs skull approaches the human condition in this respect. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins ix. 136/2 Judging the Taung specimen from tooth eruption to be around five years of age, the adult individual would have had a cranial capacity of 440 cc. 2000 Archaeology Nov. 88/2 The episode relies heavily on familiar South African sites interspersed with fun historic footage of Raymond Dart (of Taung child fame). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1925
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