Yuman.1adj.
/ˈjuːmə/ A. n.1
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a. (A member of) an Indian people inhabiting south-west Arizona and the adjoining areas of Mexico and California, now officially referred to as the Quechan.
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b. The language of this people.
B. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or designating this people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Western America > [adjective] > others
Yuma1831
Maricopa1848
Quechan1849
Cahita1876
Yuman1891
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Andean languages > Quechuan
Quechuan1769
Quechua1811
Yuma1831
1831 J. O. Pattie in R. G. Thwaite Early Western Trav. (1905) XVIII. 188 Here we found the tribe of Umeas.
1849 A. W. Whipple Jrnl. 1 Dec. in H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. (1852) II. iv. 118 To this day among the Yumas I have never seen anger expressed.
1849 A. W. Whipple Jrnl. 1 Dec. in H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. (1852) II. iv. 118 I will add a vocabulary of the Yuma (or rather Cuchan) language.
1877 H. S. Gatschet Indian Lang. Pacific States 156 The term opa, composing several of these tribal names, is taken from the Yuma, and means man.
1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race ii. ii. 109 It has also been called..the Apache, that being the Yuma word for ‘fighting men’.
1892 Amer. Anthropologist 5 326 This pamphlet..is the fourth of the author's Yuma series.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. ix. 163 These Yuma Indians..were a peaceful, fine-looking lot, without a thing on but a gee-string.
1942 Amer. Anthropologist 44 425 Certain structural features of the Yuma language should be outlined... Yuma has three ‘parts of speech’.
1965 Language 41 305 Yuma has /a/.
1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 13 Modeling and paddling is a technique..still used by the Papago and Yuma of Arizona.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Apr. 27/3 In 1780 Teodoro de Croix..ordered that two new settlements of Spaniards be established among the Yuma Indians on the Lower Colorado River.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
Yuman.2
/ˈjuːmə/ Used chiefly attributively to designate the remains of a prehistoric culture discovered in Yuma County, and applied esp. to a type of projectile point. Cf. Folsom n.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific prehistoric culture
Thule1927
Folsom1928
Yuma1932
Badarian1949
Dorset1960
Pre-Dorset1962
Lapita1971
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific prehistoric
Bronze Age1863
Iron Age1868
Cromerian1922
Olmecan1929
Ahrensburg1931
Ghassulian1931
Yuma1932
Dorset1933
Oldowan1934
Cortaillod1940
Clovis1943
Olmec1943
Ahrensburgian1950
Ubaid1952
Olmecoid1956
pre-Clovis1962
Lapita1971
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > missile discharged from weapon > point of
Yuma1932
1932 E. B. Renaud in Proc. Colorado Museum Nat. Hist. 19 Nov. 5 Yuma and Folsom artifacts.
1932 E. B. Renaud in Proc. Colorado Museum Nat. Hist. 19 Nov. 5 The number and variety of artifacts of this splendid collection from the Yuma district contributed greatly to our better knowledge of the points which, in recognition, we named ‘Yuma points’ to distinguish them from the true Folsom type.
1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xvi. 684 Points called Yumas have now and then been found in Folsom association, as at Clovis.
1949 Time 12 Sept. 69/1 Not much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found.
1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 277/2 Yuma implements are unfluted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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