| 释义 |
Kiowa, n. and a.|ˈkaɪəwə, ˈkaɪəwɔː|
Also Kiawa, Kyaway, etc.
[Native name.]
A. n.
a. An Indian people of the south-western U.S.; a member of this people.
b. The language of this people.
1810Z. M. Pike Acct. Expeditions Sources Mississippi App. ii. 16 The only nations with whom the Pawnees are now at war, are the Tetaus, Utahs, and Kyaways. 1849G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West vii, The Kioway loves the pale-face, and gives him warning. 1856W. W. Whipple in Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific (U.S. War Dept.) III. v. 80 Some resemblances are likewise to be observed between the Kioway and the languages of the southern and western tribes of the Sioux or Dakota stock. 1874[see Comanche n. 2]. 1928U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 84. 2 Six vowel qualities and twenty-two consonants are found in Kiowa. 1959E. Tunis Indians 106/1 The fingers of one hand, held up and moved in a shaking circle, was the Kiowa—rattlebrained. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 78 Kiowa (Powell's ‘Kiowan’), a language of the western Plains, seems now to have been reasonably well established as a part of the Aztecan-Tanoan phylum. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 May 25/4 When the son of a wealthy Kiowa achieved an exploit, everyone heard about it.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to any of the above; Kiowa Apache, an Athapascan people associated with the Kiowa; a member of this people; also, their language.
1821J. Fowler Jrnl. (1898) 64 The Kiowa cheef with his nation had stoped and intended we shold stop with them. 1865J. Pike Scout & Ranger iv. 64 Houston's design was to carry the war into the Comanche and Kiowa country. 1885W. P. Clark Indian Sign Lang. 33 This gesture refers to the Apaches living with the Kiowas at the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory..frequently called Kiowa Apaches. 1928U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 84. 2 (heading) Vocabulary of the Kiowa language. 1937J. G. McAllister in F. Eggan Social Anthropol. N. Amer. Tribes iii. 100 Communication was carried on by means of the sign language, and most of the old Kiowa-Apache knew a little Kiowa, though very few of the Kiowa had any knowledge of the Kiowa Apache tongue. 1963Univ. Calif. Publ. Linguistics XXIX. 102 Western Apache..is one of the Apachean languages. Others are Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Kiowa Apache, Navaho, and Lipan. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 May 25/4 A Kiowa warrior was forced by custom to give away some of his wealth. |