单词 | wakash |
释义 | Wakashn.adj. Now Historical. A. n. 1. Originally: the name given to a subgroup of the Nootka. ΚΠ 1778 Cook Jrnl. Apr. (1967) III. 323 Was I to name them [sc. the Indians of Nootka Sound] as a Nation I would call them Wak'ashians, from the word Wak'ash which they frequently made use of.] 2. = Wakashan n. ΘΚΠ 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 the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Wakashan Wakash1856 Wakashan1929 1856 R. G. Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. 73 I only imagine that if it [sc. the Naas family] really contain languages so different as the Chemmesyan and Hailtsa, it may also contain the Haidah and other groups, e.g. the one that comes next, or—XI. The Wakash of Quadra and Vancouver's Island. 1862 R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. 403 The class to which the Nútka [language] and its congeners belong is called the Wakash. The Tlaoquatsh and Wakash Proper belong to it. 1892 J. W. Powell Indian Linguistic Families N. of Mexico (52nd U.S. Congress 1 Sess. House Misc. Doc. No. 31 ) 129 The term ‘Wakash’ for this group of languages has..been generally ignored, and in its place Nootka or Nootka-Columbian has been adopted. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to this people (sense A. 1). ΚΠ 1836 A. Gallatin in Archæologia Americana 2 15 The language of the Wakash Indians who inhabit the island on which Nootka Sound is situated (49° north latitude), is the one in that quarter, which..is best known to us. 2. Relating to or characteristic of the Wakashan family of languages. ΚΠ 1856 R. G. Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. 73 South of the Wakash area come..the following groups. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.adj.1836 |
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