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Delaware|ˈdɛləwɛə(r)|
[f. the name of an American river (see quot. 1832).]
a. A member of an Algonquian Indian people, formerly inhabiting the basin of the Delaware river.
b. The language of this people. Also attrib.
1709Penn. Col. Rec. (1852) II. 469 Chiefs of the Delaware Indians, settled at Peshtang above Conestogoe. 1721Doc. Col. Hist. N.Y. (1855) V. 623 All the English..have..in Jersey & Pennsylvania, their own or home nations, called Delawares, [who] are exceedingly decreased. a1762S. Niles Wars in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1861) 4th Ser. V. ii. 430 A large party of Delaware Indians. a1772J. Woolman Jrnl. (1778) 201 None of them were quite perfect in the English and Delaware tongues. 1826J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. iv. 69 Look to a Delaware, or a Mohican, for a warrior! Ibid. 75 They spoke together earnestly in the Delaware language. Ibid. viii. 169 He spoke in Delaware. 1832S. A. O'Ferrall Ramble thro' U.S. 46 The Lenni Lenape, or Delawares, as they were called by the English, from the circumstance of their holding their great ‘Council-fire’ on the banks of the Delaware river. 1877L. H. Morgan Ancient Society ii. ii. 73 The number of gentes..varied in the different tribes, from three among the Delawares..to upwards of twenty among the Ojibwas. 1933Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Algonquian family..includes the languages..of New England (..Mohican, and so on, with Delaware to the south). 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 135 Some Algonquians..now speak..Delaware in Oklahoma. |