| 释义 |
Yuki, n. (a.)|ˈjuːkɪ|
Also 9 Yuka, Yukeh, etc.
[a. Wintu yu-keh, lit. ‘stranger, enemy’.]
a. (A member of) a group of linguistically related American Indian peoples, comprising the Yuki, Huchnom, and Wappo tribes, inhabiting the coast of north-western California.
b. The language spoken by this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1858S. P. Storms Let. 14 Aug. in Ann. Rep. Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1858 CIX. 307 About three thousand Nome Cults or Yukas make this valley [sc. Round Valley in northern California] their headquarters. 1863Hist. Mag. VII. 123/1 The Yukeh, or as the name is variously spelt, Yuka, Yuques, and Uca, are the original inhabitants of the..Round Valley in Tehama County, California. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. ii. iii. 648 In Round Valley, northern California, there is the..Yuka language. Ibid. 643 At Humboldt Bay a language called Patawat is mentioned, and in Round Valley the Yuka. 1877S. Powers Tribes Calif. xiv. 129 If a Yuki stumbles and falls on the march..it is a bad omen. Ibid., He has seen Yuki dead left on the field. 1900J. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 2) I. i. 34 When the men of the Yuki tribe of Indians in California were away fighting, the women at home..danced..in a circle, chanting and waving leafy wands. 1923A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. iii. 90 In the native Californian language known as Yuki, ko means go. 1939H. M. Wormington Ancient Man in North Amer. vi. 256 Among living Indians in North America the Cahuilla tribes of inland southern California and the Pomo and Yuki of northern coastal California, are thought to show the greatest number of Amurian traits. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 99 Hokan-Siouan in Sapir's arrangement includes six major constituent units..Hokan-Coahuiltecan, Yuki, [etc.]. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 844/1 Warfare was apparently frequent—between certain communities, between the different Yuki groups, and with other Californian Indians. Ibid. 844/2 The Yuki..were organized into communities composed of several scattered settlements. 1981A. B. Kehoe North Amer. Indians vii. 376/2 Yuki and its sister language Wappo, both spoken north of San Francisco Bay. |