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单词 canticoy
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canticoyn.

Brit. /ˈkantᵻˌkɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈkæn(t)əˌkɔɪ/
Forms:

α. 1600s cantica, 1600s 1900s– cantico, 1800s kantickie, 1800s– canticoy, 1900s– kanticoy (rare).

β. 1600s kintecoy, 1600s 1800s kinticoy, 1700s kentikoy, 1700s–1800s keutikaw, 1800s kentikaw, 1800s kinte-kaeye, 1800s kintekaw.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. Partly a borrowing from Unami Delaware. Etymons: Dutch kintekayen, Unami Delaware kə́ntkay.
Etymology: < Dutch (i) kintekayen, verb (A. van der Donck 1653, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) Unami Delaware kə́ntkay (noun) dance ( < kə́ntka- to dance + -ay, suffix forming nouns). Compare Pidgin Delaware chintika holy.In the α. forms probably influenced by post-classical Latin canticum song (see Cantica n.) or one of its Romance reflexes (e.g. Spanish cántico ). The form keutikaw originated as typographical error. Compare the following isolated borrowing from Munsee Delaware kúntkaan ‘there is a dance’, cognate with Unami Delaware kə́ntka:n:1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 42 Their Kin-tau Kauns, or time of sacrificing is at the beginning of winter.
Now historical.
Among some Eastern Algonquian peoples: a social or religious gathering, esp. for dancing. Also: the dancing or other activity that takes place at such a gathering.
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1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 11 At their Cantica's or dancing Matches, where all persons that come are freely entertain'd.
1675 E. Andross Let. 13 Dec. in F. B. Hough Easton's Narr. Causes Indian War (1858) 126 Several Indyans..are in a few Dayes to have a great Kintecoy at Seaquetalke.
1735 J. Sergeant Jrnl. 21 Dec. in S. Hopkins Hist. Mem. Housatunnuk Indians (1753) 37 Some of our Indians came to me, and desired my Opinion about a certain Custom they have and call Keutikaw, or a Dance.
1849 J. G. Whittier Leaves from Margaret Smith's Jrnl. 164 Wauwoonemeen..told us that they did still hold their Keutikaw [1866 Kentikaw], or Dance for the Dead.
1961 W. Brandon Indians (1987) vi. 173 A Colonial dancing match, or play party, was called a ‘cantico’, from a word of Algonquian root.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

canticoyv.

Forms:

α. 1600s kintecoy, 1800s kinte-kaeye.

β. 1800s canticoy.

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch.
Etymology: < Dutch kintekayen (see canticoy n.). Compare slightly earlier canticoy n.In the β. forms probably after canticoy n. Quots. 1854 and 1867 translate 17th-cent. Dutch documents.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. Among some Eastern Algonquian peoples: to hold or participate in a canticoy, a social or religious gathering esp. for dancing. Cf. canticoy n.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [verb (intransitive)]
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > dance > [verb (intransitive)]
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Ghost Dance1897
1675 E. Andross Let. 13 Dec. in F. B. Hough Easton's Narr. Causes Indian War (1858) 126 A Speciall Warrant..to Demand the Indyans Armes of Rockaway and Seaquatalke, who are to Kintecoy there.
1854 H. C. Murphy tr. Broad Advice in Vertoogh van Nieu Nederland 258 The first of these Indians..wished them to let him Kinte-Kaeye—being a dance performed by them as a religious rite.
1867 H. C. Murphy tr. J. Danckaerts & P. Sluyter Jrnl. Voy. N.Y. 1679–80 275 These Indians had canticoyed (gekintekayt) there to-day, that is, conjured the devil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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