单词 | coushatta |
释义 | Coushattan.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people living in eastern Tennessee in the 16th cent., and later in central Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.Communities of Coushatta now reside in Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun] Floridian1589 Chickasaw1674 Yamasee1699 Alabama1708 Natchez1708 Santee1709 Cherokee1721 Choctaw1722 Coushatta1722 Creek1725 Yuchi1738 Muskogee1751 Floridan1763 Muskogee1789 Mikasuki1791 Opelousa1805 Karankawa1806 Tunica1806 Melungeon1813 Alabamian1817 Ozark1819 Alabaman1829 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana ii. 23 Upon or near the Middle of it live the great Nations of the Cusshetaes, Tallibousies, and Adgebaches. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida (1960) I. 90 A mixture of the remains of the Cawittas, Ta-lepoosas,..Conshacs or Coosades,..Alibamons,..and some other tribes whose names i do not recollect, will be the next subject of our attention. 1850 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 2 282 On one occasion a party of Coshatees had come on a trading trip to Houston during which they danced about the town, drinking largely of whiskey. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 719/2 Koasati. An Upper Creek tribe speaking a dialect almost identical with the Alibamu. 2004 D. La Vere Texas Indians vii. 159 The Alabamas and Coushattas lived nearer the Upper Creek red towns. 2. The Muskogean language spoken by this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Gulf Penutian > Natchez-Muskogean Coushatta1836 Natchez1836 Choctaw1880 Muskogean1885 1836 Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 2 96 These five languages, the Muskhogee and the Hitchittee, the Uchee, the Natches, and the Alibamon or Coosada are, it is believed, the only ones spoken by the different tribes of the Creek confederacy. 1924 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 3 53/2 Natchez, Koasati and Hitchiti all have independent pronouns and independent reflexive pronouns. 1941 M. Haas in L. Spier et al. Lang., Culture & Personality 46 Alabama and Koasati are to some extent mutually intelligible. 2012 D. E. Bates Other Movement i. 13 Sickey..spoke both Coushatta and Choctaw, the languages of his parents. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or designating the Coushatta or their language. ΚΠ 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 267 These Kooasahte Indians, annually sanctify the mulberries by a public oblation. 1884 A. S. Gatschet Migration Legend of Creek Indians (1969) I. i. ii. 89 The Koassáti word tabasa means widower, widow. 1967 S. W. Hist. Q. 70 iv. 586 Indians from Polk County's Alabama and Coushatta villages—wearing Confederate uniforms—manned the river boat. 2009 L. Langley et al. in J. Allured & J. F. Gentry Louisiana Women 165 The court extended invitations to the family meeting to five Coushatta men but no women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1722 |
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