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单词 wakash
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Wakashn.adj.

/wɑːˈkaʃ/
Etymology: < Nootka wa·ka·š bravo! (see quot. 1778 at sense A. 1).
Now Historical.
A. n.
1. Originally: the name given to a subgroup of the Nootka.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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