Zuñin.
/ˈzuːnji/ a. A Pueblo Indian inhabiting the valley of the Zuñi, New Mexico. Also Zuni Indian.
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Moqui1759
Pima1829
pueblo1834
Zuñi1834
Papago1839
Pueblo Indian1844
Taos1844
Pueblan1875
Hopi1877
Picuris1883
Puebloan1883
Tanoan1891
Piman1900
Tewa1910
Keres1925
Tohono O'odham1987
1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 200 The Moqui (pronounced Mokee,) and the Suni (Sunee) live near the Nabajo.
1853 L. Sitgreaves Rep. Exped. Zuñi & Colorado Rivers 5 The cornfields of the Zuni Indians extend..for several miles.
1883 Cent. Mag. 25 201 Zūni food prepared in Zūni fashion.
1883 Cent. Mag. 25 202/1 The domestic life of the Zūnis.
1898 A. Lang Making Relig. xiv. 275 In the Zuñi hymn we have the myth of the marriage of Heaven and Earth.
1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 1017/1 Fray Martin de Arvide..was killed by 5 Zuñi.
1929 Amer. Speech 5 115 Among these Pueblo tribes we find..the Zuñi, who called themselves Ashiwi, Zuñi being a Spanish adaptation of Sunyitsi, the Keresan name for this tribe.
1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means iii. 20 Among the Zuñi Indians..individuals are not led into the kind of temptation which invites the men of our civilization to work for fame, wealth, social position or power.
1960 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games ii. 49 The Zuni Indians played another game on the roof-tops called Kolowis Awithlaknannai.
1969 Vogue Nov. 30/2 Marvellous chokers, from the Zuni of the southwest.
b. The language of this people.
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Miwok1873
Mutsun1877
Takelma1881
Zuñi1882
Yokuts1887
Yawelmani1907
Yokutsan1956
1882 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 367/2 Then I spoke in Zuñi.
1932 A. Huxley Brave New World vi. 120 Extinct languages, such as Zuñi and Spanish and Athapascan.
1956 J. Lotz in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 12/2 Color-recognition tests were given to both Zuni and English speakers.
1972 Language 48 847 His list can be supplemented from..Yuma, Zuni.
Derivatives
ˈZuñian adj. (also Zunyan)
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Papago1811
Moqui1818
Zuñian1885
Piman1891
Pueblan1895
Puebloan1905
Tanoan1909
Tewa1910
Tohono O'odham1986
1885 Science 25 Sept. 267/2 This clay model of the Zuñian owl.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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