| 释义 |
Yuchi|ˈjuːtʃɪ|
Also 8–9 Euchee, Euchi(e, Uchee.
[a. Creek, of uncertain origin.]
a. (A member of) an Indian people formerly inhabiting the region of the Savannah river in Georgia and South Carolina, and now incorporated into the Creek nation in Oklahoma.
1738W. Stephens Jrnl. in Colonial Rec. Georgia (1906) IV. 75 He understood they were a Party of the Euchies. 1741in South Carolina Hist. Soc. Coll. (1887) IV. 40 Thomas Jones..was Employed..as a Linguist to the Creeks and Euchees. 1744in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1840) I. 145 Their cattle..had strayed away and eat the Uckee's corn. 1818Lynchburg (Va.) Press 25 Dec. 3/1 The captain..reports to have taken three warriors, a Creek, a Choctaw, and a Uchee. 1893Amer. Anthropologist VI. 280 The Yuchi believe themselves to be the offspring of the sun. 1965[see Creek n.3]. 1975W. L. Ballard in J. M. Crawford Stud. Southeastern Indian Lang. 163, I spent approximately six weeks in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, interviewing Yuchis.
b. The language of this people.
1836Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiq. Soc. II. 96 These five languages, the Muskhogee and the Hitchittee, the Uchee, the Natches, and the Alibamon or Coosada are, it is believed, the only ones spoken by the different tribes of the Creek confederacy. 1909F. S. Speck Ethnol. Yuchi Indians 15 It is quite certain now that Yuchi is spoken in only one dialect. 1975W. L. Ballard in J. M. Crawford Stud. Southeastern Indian Lang. 163 A number of tapes of conversations in Yuchi were made. |