| 释义 |
Quechua, n. and a.|ˈkɛtʃwə|
Also Quichua, Kechua, and other varr.
[Sp., ad. Quechua k'echua, k'eshua, plunderer, despoiler.]
A. n.
a. An Indian people of Peru and neighbouring parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador; a member of this people.
b. The language (actually a group of related languages) spoken by this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 6/2 They [sc. the Peruvian Indians] speak the Quichua language, which is generally called the language of the Incas, and which is used by all the natives of South America, from Quito near the equator, to Tucuman in La Plata, 27° S. lat. Ibid. 9/2 As the aborigines who inhabit this extensive country speak one language, the Quichua, it must be supposed that they belong to one race. 1843J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man xlv. 431 Among the Peruvian nations, the dominant race were the Quichuas, or Incas, distinguished by their language, which is the Quichuan. 1860[see Aymara]. 1877[see Chibcha]. 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race ii. i. 203 The Kechua..was spoken by an unbroken chain of tribes for nearly two thousand miles from north to south. 1908[see Cholo, cholo]. 1921[see Aymara]. 1926South Amer. Sept. 71/2 We take with us a native helper who can speak Quechua. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xiv. 258 The absence of hoes from all of South America would be of real interest were it not that their undoubted use among the Quichua, past and present, eliminates the problems otherwise raised. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) x. 431 The Aztec, Otomí, Maya, Quechua, or Aymará Indians were economically oppressed by their conquest. 1950J. A. Mason in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 197 Quechua (Kechua, Quichua, Keshwa, etc.) is the South American analogue of Aztec. Ibid., Today probably several millions of Indians in Perú, southwestern Ecuador, western Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina speak Quechua, and most of them nothing else. 1952Language XXVIII. 366 (title) Semantic components in Kechua person morphemes. 1966Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 366/2 Quechumaran comprises two branches..the Quechuan branch, spoken from Colombia to Chile, has as its main member Quechua, of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. This is by far the most important native language of South America. 1973[see pick v.1 21 i]. 1974Times 6 Dec. 15/7 The Quechua Indian women of Southern Peru. Ibid. 15/8 The Quechua hitherto have lived in inconveniently scattered farmholdings. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index of World's Languages 21 Quechua and Aymara were said to be genetically related as early as Steinthal (1890). |