Uten.1adj.
/juːt/, /ˈjuːti/, U.S. /ˈjut/ A. n.1
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a. A Shoshonean Indian people inhabiting parts of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico; a member of this people.
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b. The language of this people.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to the Ute or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [adjective]
Shoshone1805
Nez Perce1811
Ute1826
Spokane1838
Sahaptin1841
Skokomish1844
Paiute1845
Salish1849
Yakima1855
Kutenai1877
Salishana1886
Shuswap1904
Wallawalla1957
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > of miscellaneous languages of
Comanche1819
Ute1826
Paiute1845
Luiseño1858
1826 in D. M. Frost Notes on General Ashley (1960) App. B. 136 The Eutaws and Flatheads..express a great wish that the Americans should visit them frequently.
1846 G. R. Gibson Jrnl. 13 Oct. (1935) 252 About fifty Ute Indians came in and held a council with Colonel Doniphan.
1846 M. B. Betham-Edwards Jrnl. 2 Nov. in A. R. Johnston et al. Marching with Army of West (1936) 212 Major Gilpin..made a long and arduous journey through the country of the Ute and Navajo.
1885 D. G. Brinton in Pennsylvania Mag. Apr. 30 The simple form of the verb may convey three different ideas, as in Ute, where the word for ‘he seizes’ means also ‘the seizer’.
1907 A. L. Kroeber Shoshonean Dial. Calif. iii. 67 The Ute vocabulary was obtained, also in 1900, among the Uintah Ute.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Shoshonean family (in southern California and eastward, including Ute, Paiute, Shoshone, Comanche, and Hopi).
1958 L. C. Pritchett Cabin at Medicine Springs (1959) xxii. 199 Tha's talk of herdin' all the Utes out of Colorado.
1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 93 Plains lazy-stitch sewing is characteristic of the work of..the Ute of the Plateau.
1979 C. McCarry Better Angels iii. iii. 180 Woolen socks, hand-knitted by Ute women.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
uten.2
/juːt/, U.S. /jut/, Australian English /juːt/, New Zealand English /juːt/ colloquial (chiefly Australian and New Zealand).
= utility n. 4b.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > estate car
beach-wagon1869
ranch wagon1879
shooting brake1912
sport utility1925
station wagon1929
carryall1932
sports utility1940
ute1943
utility1944
estate car1950
wagon1955
estate wagon1959
SUV1987
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 68 Ute, short for Utility truck, a light van used by the Army.
1951 E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves 178 He gets pissed one night, pinches a ute from the transport lines.
1961 ‘J. Danvers’ Living come First i. 17 I'd like you to take the ute and drive in to Alice. The wire we ordered has arrived.
1971 N.Z. Listener 8 Nov. 15/5 Wind whipped at the ute and rocked it on the road's sharp corners.
1981 National Times (Austral.) 25 Jan. 23/4 We used to help load Teddy into the back of the ute.
1984 NZ Farmer 12 Apr. 39/1 Now Nissan has followed it with a tough new 4 × 4 ute, known at this stage just as the 720.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† utev.
Obsolete.
An interjectional form used with an infinitive verb, having the force of a subjunctive, with the sense ‘Let us ——’.
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the mind > will > motivation > [interjection] > exclamations to incite or urge on
utec888
victory1595
hist-a-boy1842
yay1963
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiv. §7 Uton lætan þonne bion þa spræce.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 4 Gyf þu wylt, uton wyrcean her þreo eardung-stowa.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 241 Ute we nu isi wice bioð ure ifo.
a1200 Moral Ode 333 Vte we us bi-werien wid þes wrecches worldes luue.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10296 Uten we [c1300 Otho Hote] heom to liðe.
c1275 Passion of our Lord 173 in Old Eng. Misc. 42 Ariseþ vp..and vte we heonne go.
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