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单词 yokuts
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Yokutsn.adj.

Brit. /ˈjəʊkʌts/, U.S. /ˈjoʊˌkəts/
Inflections: Plural unchanged;
Forms:

α. 1800s– Yokuts.

β. 1800s– Yokut (rare).

Origin: A borrowing from Yawelmani Yokuts. Etymon: Yawelmani Yokuts yokhoc̓.
Etymology: < Yawelmani Yokuts yokhoc̓ person, people.The β. forms, often used attributively, reflect a reinterpretation of the final -s of the α. forms as the English plural suffix.
A. n.
1. (A member of) any of about 40 closely related North American Indian peoples of central California; these peoples collectively.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [noun]
Mojave1831
Mono1851
Miwok1856
Mutsun1857
Luiseño1858
Monache1870
Yokuts1877
Yawelmani1907
1877 S. Powers Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. III. 370 At the time of the American advent..the Yokuts occupied the south bank of the Fresno.
1927 Amer. Anthropologist 29 231 He was probably a Costanoan or a Yokuts by birth.
1937 A. Goldenweiser Anthropology xxii. 358 When a Yokut addresses a stranger, he does not ask to what moiety he belongs, but queries, ‘What is your dog?’
1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 39 In southern California the baskets of the Yokuts and Mono have thin grass coils.
2000 J. C. Winter Tobacco Use Native N. Americans ii. 35/1 After attaining a vision or a dream, the Yokuts smoked a little tobacco as an offering to their animal helper.
2. The family of languages spoken by the Yokuts; any of these languages.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Penutian languages
Miwok1873
Mutsun1877
Takelma1881
Zuñi1882
Yokuts1887
Yawelmani1907
Yokutsan1956
1887 Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1886 237 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (49th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 170, Pt. 2) Tannaikh, in Yokuts. Jimson weed. Pounded roots good for cuts and bruises.
1912 R. B. Dixon & A. L. Kroeber in Amer. Anthropologist 14 692 The new larger families and their components are: Penutian, comprising the groups formerly known as Maidu, Wintun, Miwok, Costanoan, and Yokuts.
1921 E. Sapir Lang. iv. 77 In another Indian language, Yokuts, vocalic modifications affect both noun and verb forms.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 139 Yokuts is a language family that is centered in the San Joaquin Valley and is flanked by languages of the Uto-Aztecan family.
2011 A. R. Okamoto & K. M. Wong Nat. Hist. of San Francisco Bay 109 Up in the river valleys people spoke Yokuts, Patwin, and Nisenan.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Yokuts or their languages.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [adjective]
Mojave1844
Mutsun1857
Yokuts1877
Yawelmani1907
Miwok1916
Yokutsan1956
1877 S. Powers Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. III. 370 In the Yokuts nation there appears to be more political solidarity..than is common in the State.
1904 Science 17 June 914/2 The Yokut tribes are numerous, and until the confiscation of their lands by the whites their distribution was continuous.
1944 S. S. Newman (title) Yokuts language of California.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 824/2 Yokuts ceremonies included puberty rite for boys, involving use of the hallucinogen tolguache, made from jimsonweed.
2011 Arts & Crafts Winter 14/1 (caption) Central California Yokuts baskets from Morning Star Gallery, an exhibitor at the Winter Antiques Show.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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