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Arawak, n. and a.|ˈærəwæk, -ɑːk|
Also † Arrowauk, † Arowack and variants.
A. n.
1. A group of Indian peoples in South America; a member of one of these peoples.
2. The language of these peoples.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Arawaks or their language. Hence Araˈwakan a. and n.
1769E. Bancroft Nat. Hist. Guiana iii. 253 The Arrowauks..are a friendly, hospitable people. Ibid. 304 An Indian..of the Arrowauk tribe. 1851R. G. Latham Ethnol. Brit. Colonies vi. 259 The Arawaks are our nearest neighbours, and, consequently, the most Europeanized. 1868W. H. Brett Indian Tribes of Guiana vi. 117 These names respectively signify in Arawâk, ‘the resorts of the Ituri’, [etc.]. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 322/2 The Arawaks have given their name to a linguistic stock of South America, the Arawakan, which includes many once powerful tribes. The Arawakans were once numerous. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 431 Arawakan continued to be used only by the females and Carib by the males. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory viii. 89 The discovery of unsuspected Arawak and Carib tribes in the interior of Brazil. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 101 Arawakan and other Caribbean area groups. |