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Sahaptin, n. and a.|səˈhæptɪn|
Also † Sahapotin, Shahaptan.
[Southern Interior Salish Sˀaptnx Sahaptin, Nez Percé; of uncertain ulterior etymology.]
A. n.
a. Formerly, a (member of an) American Indian people of the Snake River basin, also called the Nez Percé; also, any of several groupings of the Nez Percé and others believed to be linguistically related. Now applied to a number of closely related North American Indian peoples of the Columbia River basin.
b. The language or language grouping of any of these peoples.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to any of these peoples or their language.
1836A. Gallatin in Trans. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. II. 264 (map) Sahapotins. 1841Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. XI. 225 The first and more northern Indians of the interior may be denominated the Shahaptan Family, and comprehends..the Shahaptan, or Nez Percés..; the Kliketat..; and the Okanagan. 1846H. Hale U.S. Exploring Exped.: Ethnogr. & Philol. 198 The South-Oregon division. To this belong the Sahaptin family (Nez-percés and Wallawallas), [etc.]. 1918J. E. Rees Idaho Chronol. 109 Their earliest home was upon the Columbia River and when they were pushed southward the Salish called them ‘Shahaptans’, meaning ‘strangers from up the river’. 1918Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics I. 176, I have..gathered voluminous data supporting previously expressed contentions concerning the genetic relationship between Lutuamian, Wailatpuan, and Sahaptin. 1921E. Sapir Language 222 The presence of postpositions in Upper Chinook..is clearly due to the influence of neighboring Sahaptin languages. 1940M. W. Smith Puyallup-Nisqually 22 If he spoke Sahaptin, it is also certain that he spoke Salish. 1947B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 11 Ethnologists use the name which the Flatheads bestowed on them, the Shahaptan, of uncertain meaning but perhaps a designation of the country they lived in. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 125 Jacobs also has published a considerable quantity of Sahaptin texts. 1971Language XLVII. 840 The northernmost example, the Sahaptin and Nez Perce shift of n > l, is reversed in comparison to the more southern shifts. |