| 释义 |
Nuer|ˈnuːə(r)|
[Native name.]
Name of an African people living in the south-eastern area of the Sudan; a member of this people; also, their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1861J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Africa xx. 362 We..made fast under two villages, which we found were inhabited by the Nouaer. 1873E. E. Frewer tr. Schweinfurth's Heart of Africa I. iii. 118 We made a stop, and did some bartering with the Nueir... Here, in the heart of the Nueir population, in a district called Nyeng, we fixed our quarters. 1894A. Lefèvre Race & Lang. v. 162 From the lakes of the Upper Nile to the Atlantic, the Negro dialects, properly so called, prevail: (1.) The Dinka group (Bari, Bongo, Chillouk, Nouer, etc.), the poorest of all, hardly issued from the mono⁓syllabic stage. 1923C. H. Stigand (title) A Nuer-English vocabulary. 1932C. G. & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan i. 13 The Nuer..are tall, long-headed, very dark-skinned, and woolly-haired. Ibid. vi. 222 Every Nuer has a name given to him at birth by his father or other member of his family. 1940E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer iv. 184 Arab merchants..generally speak Nuer well. 1949tr. L. Homburger's Negro-African Langs. iv. 89 In Nuer ko is used for ‘we’ distinct from nè ‘I and thou’ and ne ‘we and you’. 1955J. H. Greenberg Studies in African Linguistic Classification 65 It is..probable that the ti plural demonstrative and relative of Nuer..is cognate with the ti possessive and relative of Bari. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. iii. 51 The Nuers of the Sudan have a very highly specialized vocabulary relating to cattle. |