Amerindn.adj.
/ˈamərɪnd/, U.S. /ˈæməˌrɪnd/ A. n.
1. Originally and chiefly Cultural Anthropology. An American Indian.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [noun]
Indian1553
American1568
Native Americana1628
native1636
American Native1648
American Indian1650
Injun1666
Canada Indian1688
red man1740
North American Indian1748
redskinc1769
buckskin1783
Red Indian1788
red1795
North American1825
copperhead1838
neechee1850
Lo1871
Amerind1899
Amerindian1899
1899 Amer. Anthropologist 1 585 I cannot even imagine how the Amerind or other savages bored a long hole in wood to make pipestems.
1923 E. W. Hopkins Origin & Evol. Relig. iii. 34 The eagle was revered by some Arabs and Amerinds (sometimes as creator).
1976 D. B. Davis in H. P. Owens Perspectives & Irony in Amer. Slavery 56 No one..has asked whether the generally more favorable European image of the Amerind was influenced by the fact that Amerinds..appeared quite literally to be a perishing race.
2002 Jrnl. Heredity 93 386/2 Among other studies, it examines the genetic relation to surrounding tribes and to the origin of Amerinds.
2. A proposed language family comprising all of the indigenous languages of the Americas except Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene. Frequently attributive.This family was first proposed by the American linguist Joseph Greenberg (1915–2001); it is widely regarded as inaccurate or controversial by specialists in the languages included in it.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > other
Tehuelche1871
Zoque–Mixe1900
Panoan1902
Tehuelchian1902
Wai Wai1953
Amerind1971
1971 A. E. Bell State-process Approach to Syllabicity & Syllable Struct. (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) iii. 109 All the indigenous language families of America except Na-Dene belong to a common Amerind stock, although many details of subclassification within Amerind are still undecided.
1987 J. H. Greenberg in Current Anthropol. 28 651/1 In my earlier classification, Oto-Manguean was separated and even its affiliation to Amerind doubted.
2005 C. Mann 1491 ii. v. 164 He had concluded that Indian languages belonged to just three main linguistic families: Aleut,..Na-Dené,..and Amerind.
B. adj.
Originally and chiefly Cultural Anthropology. Of, relating to, or designating American Indians.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [adjective]
Indian1590
American1611
red1725
American Indian1771
North American Indian1845
red-skinned1869
Amerind1899
Amerindian1899
pan-Indian1921
1899 Science 11 Aug. 191/2 Mr. F. W. Hodge..is engaged in photographing the Prince collection of Amerind idols.
1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove vii. 37 Their boasted democracy did not for a moment contemplate raising the Amerind woman above the status of an animal of burden.
1965 Amer. Notes & Queries Apr. 122/2 Natural Environment & Early Cultures, edited by Robert C. West, marks a turning point as well as a progression in Amerind anthropology.
1993 V. E. Mitchell Windows on Lost World xiv.168 The colonists had used such diverse models as the Australian aborigines and the Amerind peyote cult for their society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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