单词 | island carib |
释义 | > as lemmasIsland Carib Island Carib n. (a) an Amerindian people of the Lesser Antilles, of Carib and Arawak descent; (b) the language of this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Ge-Pano-Carib Amerindian Pano1836 Lengua1904 Macusi1934 Island Carib1938 Xavante1950 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [noun] > Carib Indian > peoples cannibal1553 Black Carib1767 Akawaio1769 Macusi1819 Taino1836 Motilon1852 Island Carib1938 1938 D. Taylor Caribs of Dominica (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 119) 140 The most typical product of the Island Carib is..the dugout canoe. 1951 D. Taylor Black Carib of Brit. Honduras 41 The Black Carib of Central America speak a dialect of Island Carib—of the language, that is to say, spoken by the native Indian inhabitants of the ‘Caribee’ islands at the time of Breton's stay among them (1635–1653). 1968 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 433/1 These island Carib [of Dominica] have not retained as much of their aboriginal language and culture [as the Black Carib]. 1969 Word 25 276 In Island-Carib, the plural is employed only with reference to animate..beings. < as lemmas |
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