| 释义 |
Quiché2, n. and a.|kiːˈtʃeɪ|
[Native name.]
A. n.
a. Name of a people inhabiting the western highlands of Guatemala; a member of this people.
b. One of the principal languages of the Mayan family, spoken by this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1823J. Baily tr. Juarros' Statistical & Commercial Hist. Guatemala ii. ii. 168 In all these places the Quiché language is spoken. Ibid., It may be inferred..that the greater part of the province of Sapatitlan,..was a colony of the Quichées. 1823[see Kekchi n. and a.]. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 208/1 The Popol-Vuh or national book of the Quiché kingdom of Guatemala. Ibid., After this comes the creation of the four men and their wives who are the ancestors of the Quichés. 1933A. Huxley Let. 24 Mar. (1969) 368 From there to Chichicastenango, which is the centre of the native life of the Quiché Indians, who thickly inhabit the plateaus. 1934[see ladino1 2]. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 794 Highland Maya, of upland Guatemala, speaking languages like Quiché, Cakchiquel, and Mam. 1950I. Velikovsky Worlds in Collision vi. 131 In the years of this gloom, when the world was covered with clouds and shrouded in mist, the Quiché tribe migrated to Mexico. 1963Times 7 May 14/6 Judas is dressed in the costume of a Solola tribe—it is told that they were jealous of the Quiche and appealed for help to the Spaniards, who sent de Alvarado to liquidate them. 1968Language XLIV. 191 It is in Quiché that the fascinating legends and history of the Popol vuh, ‘the sacred book of the ancient Quichés’, were recorded. It is also in Quiché and its near relatives of the ‘Quichean’ group that we have the largest accumulation of other written documents. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 353/1 The Quiché Maya had an advanced civilization in pre-Columbian times. Ibid., Written records of Quiché history and mythology are preserved in the Popol Vuh, written down in the Quiché language..shortly after conquest by the Spaniards in 1524. 1977Language LIII. 261/2 In a final appendix, a 100-word vocabulary list is given in..Quiché (also Mayan), and in Proto-Mayan as reconstructed by Kaufman.
Hence Quiˈchean a., applied to the subgroup of the Mayan family of languages to which Quiché belongs.
1956N. A. McQuown in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics XXII. 195/2 It differs from Kroeber..in suggesting a closer link between Quichean and Kekchian than between Quichean and Mamean. 1968[see above]. 1978Language LIV. 496 Kaufman's paper, ‘New Mayan languages in Guatemala’, summarizes identifications of ‘new languages’ made since 1969: Sacapultec and Sipacapa in the Quichean subgroup; [etc.]. |