| 释义 |
Sioux, a. and n.|suː|
Also 8 Sous, 9 Suouex.
[a. N. Amer. Fr., earlier Nadouessioux, etc., ad. Ojibwa (Ottawa dial.) nātowēssiwak: Fr. pl. termination -x replaced the equivalent Ojibwa feature -ak.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to the Sioux people or their language (see the n. below).
b. Formerly, of or pertaining to the Siouan languages or language grouping; = Siouan a.
1761D. Claus Let. 19 Mar. in J. Sullivan Papers Sir W. Johnson (1921) III. 363, I picked up a pair of shoes made by the Sioux Indin. to the Westward. 1805Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 8 Sept. in Sources of Mississippi (1810) i. 14 His design was to winter with some of the Sioux bands. 1824W. H. Keating Narr. Exped. St. Peter's River I. viii. 376 Account of the Dacotas or Sioux Indians. 1836A. Gallatin in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. II. 120 The nations which speak the Sioux language may be considered..as consisting of four subdivisions, viz. the Winnebagoes; the Sioux proper and Assiniboins; [etc.]. 1893L. Wagner Significance of Names 36 The Sioux State [is] the territory of the Sioux tribe of Indians. 1919S. Lewis Free Air ix. 101 She fancied that on it the Sioux scout still sat sentinel. 1949Amer. Photogr. Jan. 40/1 Following a speech in Sioux language, in which God was asked for rain, the real Sun Dance now started. 1973Black Panther 1 Sept. 17/1 Chief Fools Crow..damned the Executors in Sioux language.
B. n.
1. a. = Dakota n. 1. b. Formerly also, more generally, a (member of a) linguistic grouping of North American Indian peoples that includes the Sioux, Crow, Omaha, and others.
1762D. Claus Let. 2 June in J. Sullivan Papers Sir W. Johnson (1921) III. 754 Missisages, Ottawawas, Renards & Sioux, were the Nations assembled at Cataracqui. 1768[see hot war s.v. hot a. 12]. 1785T. Jefferson Notes on Virginia xi. 185 Sioux. On the heads of the Mississippi and westward of that river. 1827J. F. Cooper Prairie III. vii. 227 The keen weapon..meeting the naked breast of the impetuous Sioux, the blade was buried to the buck-horn haft. 1836A. Gallatin in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. II. 120 The Indians..east of the mountains are the Sioux; the Pawnees; the Fall, Rapid, or Paunch Indians; [etc.]. 1908Rep. Brit. Assoc. 851 They [sc. the mound-builders] seem to have been followed by the Sioux (Dakotas), Iroquois, who are probably of Aztec origin. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory (1938) xiv. 262 The signs of Queenslanders and Sioux lend little support to psychic unity. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 222 To the Sioux..the coming of the Dance helped to set off a train of events which culminated in the bloody massacre at Wounded Knee. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 11 Jan. (1970) 40 George Catlin..painted the Sioux... His paintings line the second-floor hall of the White House. 1975D. Pitts This City is Ours xiv. 48 His name was Mick Dull Knife; he was a full-blooded Sioux and a graduate of Princeton.
2. a. Formerly, the language family to which the Sioux and related peoples belong; = Siouan n.b. The language of the Sioux or Dakota Indians.
1783J. O. Justamond tr. Raynal's Philos. & Polit. Hist. Settlements & Trade of Europeans in E. & W. Indies VI. xv. 439 Three original languages were spoken in Canada, the Algonquin, the Sioux, and the Huron. 1915J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers ix. 141 He said something in Sioux to one of the warriors. 1971Guardian 18 Sept. 10/4 She spoke only Cheyenne and Sioux. |