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Wiyot|ˈwiːjɒt|
[Wiyot wíyat (people of) the Eel River delta.]
An American Indian people formerly living on the coast of northern California; the Macro-Algonquian language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1851G. Gibbs Jrnl. 9 Sept. in H. R. Schoolcraft Information respecting Indian Tribes (1853) III. iv(3). 127 The name given to this people by their neighbors is Weeyot. 1911A. L. Kroeber Lang. Coast Calif. 384 The Wiyot occupied the Coast from the Bear River mountains north as far as to Little river. Ibid., Wiyot is spoken indistinctly and lacks..phonetic clarity. 1918Univ. Calif. Publ. in Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. XIV. iii. 232 Cedar though present on Wiyot territory, is not abundant enough for the purposes for which a soft wood is needed. 1925Ibid. XXII. i. 5 There are also some Wiyot living among the Athapascans at Blue Lake. Ibid. 6 The individual differences of Wiyot speech will be discussed. 1946L. Bloomfield in C. Osgood Linguistic Structures Native Amer. 201 Two languages of California, Wiyot and Yurok, have been suspected of kinship with Algonquian. 1961H. Driver Indians N. Amer. xiv. 251 From the Wiyot to the Bella Coola, such usufruct was patricentered. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 308 Isolated languages in the western states, Blackfoot..and Wiyot and Yurok (California). 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 720/1 Wiyot settlements were located on streams of bays, rather than on the ocean itself. 1977Language LIII. 501/1 Pentland expands on Karl Teeter's suggestion..that the rule affricating dental stops which is operative in diminutives in Wiyot..as well as in Algonquian, should be ascribed to Proto-Algic. |