Comanchen.adj.
/kɒˈmantʃiː/ A. n.
1. A North American Indian people of Texas and Oklahoma; a member of this people.
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Quapaw1698
Padouca1746
Sarcee1801
Comanche1806
Tonkawa1806
Wichita1841
1806 J. Wilkinson in Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 109 You will also receive a..large one [sc. belt] for the Tetaus or Comanches.
1831 M. Holley Let. Dec. in Texas (1833) 90 To denote the greatest degree of degradation, they [sc. the Mexicans] call a person a Comanche.
1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet I. xiv. 218 I addressed him in Shoshone, which beautiful dialect is common to the Comanches, Apaches, and Arrapahoes.
1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels 76 The two engines are neck and neck. They scream at each other like Camanches.
1888 P. Gillmore Days & Nights by Desert xi. 88 Giving a yell like a lunatic Comanche.
1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 135/3 Spurs, saloons, Comanches, the whole cowboy paraphernalia.
2. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Central Amerindian languages > Uto-Aztecan > Uto-Aztecan languages
Comanche1856
Cahita1858
Tarahumara1874
Paiute1875
Papago1877
Huichol1900
Mayo1911
Yaqui1911
Hopi1933
Monache1958
Tohono O'odham1992
Northern Paiute1996
Ute-
1856 Trans. Philol. Soc. 106 The Shoshoni and Wihinast..differ from each other more than the several forms of the Cumanch.
1874 Forest & Stream 13 Aug. 1/2 It is in fact the Court language, all councils with Kiowas..being held in Comanche.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Shoshonean family..including..Comanche.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 94 Voiceless vowels do occur in the normal speech of some few languages (e.g. Comanche).
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to any of the above.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > others
Padouca1760
Quapaw1770
black-footed1772
Sarcee1790
Ozark1816
Comanche1819
Tonkawa1870
earth lodge1885
Skidi1891
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > of miscellaneous languages of
Comanche1819
Ute1826
Paiute1845
Luiseño1858
1819 in S.W. Hist. Q. (1913) XVI. 331 A Spanish woman..also adds..that the Comanche Indians..harrass them.
1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 198 The Comanche tongue is easy to learn.
1897 H. Inman Old Santa Fé Trail 332 He gave a series of war-whoops which discounted a Comanche yell.
1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xii. 99 A Comanche bridle is..just a gag. The rope goes through the mouth the way a bit does.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.adj.1806