单词 | yami |
释义 | Yamin.adj. 1. (A member of) a people inhabiting the island of Botel-Tobago, north of the Batan Islands in the Philippines. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Philippines > [noun] Tagalog1704 Igorot1821 Pangasinan1840 Ifugao1859 Ibanag1885 Batak1904 Yami1912 Maranao1957 Tasaday1971 1912 Statistical Summary (Govt.-Gen. Taiwan) x. 154 The Yamis..live on the Kōto islets which belong to Taitō Prefecture. 1924 B. Laufer Tobacco & its Use in Asia 18 There is but one people in Asia who does not make use of tobacco in any form, and this is the Yami who inhabit to the number of about 1,700 the small island of Botel Tobago 35 miles east of Formosa. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iii. 96 The Yami of Kotosho, in another isolated island east of Formosa, have been in somewhat similar straits for metal tools and cotton cloth and thread. 2. The Austronesian language of this people. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > northern Philippines Pangasinan1704 Ifugao1859 Ibanag1901 Ilocano1901 Yami1971 Negrito1977 1971 I. Dyen in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics VIII. i. 173 Yami is widely recognized to be closely related to Itbayat and Ivatan of the Philippines. Compounds General attributive or as adj. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Philippines > [adjective] Tagalog1808 Moro1879 Ifugao1900 Yami1953 Maranao1964 Ifugaon1968 Tasaday1971 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Austronesian languages Formosan1650 Moluccan1700 Bugis1808 Tagalog1808 Murut1836 Indonesian1850 Lifu1852 Motuan1885 Buginese1897 Dusun1897 Pangasinan1904 Lifuan1917 Pilipino1936 Marshallese1945 Yami1953 Tolai1963 1953 A. Nikigawa in Jrnl. Austronesian Stud. 1 i. 145 The Sedik language of Formosa and the Yami language of Botel Tobago Island both contain a well-defined Indonesian element. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XV. 461/1 The Yami fishermen of Botel-Tobago Island, near Taiwan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1912 |
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