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单词 kiowa
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Kiowan.adj.

Brit. /ˈkʌɪəwə/, /ˈkʌɪəwɔː/, U.S. /ˈkaɪəwə/
Forms: Also Kiawa, Kyaway, etc.
Etymology: < a North American Indian language.
A. n.
1.
a. An Indian people of the south-western U.S.; a member of this people.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Western America > [noun] > Nomadic peoples
Apache1726
Navajo1808
Kiowa1810
Yavapai1849
Jicarilla1850
White Mountain1885
Navvy1910
1810 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi App. ii. 16 The only nations with whom the Pawnees are now at war, are the Tetaus, Utahs, and Kyaways.
a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) vii. 249 The Kioway loves the pale-face, and gives him warning.
1874 Forest & Stream 13 Aug. 1/2 It is in fact the Court language, all councils with Kiowas..being held in Comanche.
1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/4 When the son of a wealthy Kiowa achieved an exploit, everyone heard about it.
b. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Central Amerindian languages > Tanoan > Tanoan languages
Kiowa1856
Picuris1856
Tewa1865
Taos1939
Tiwa1939
1856 W. W. Whipple & W. W. Turner Rep. Indian Tribes (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific III) iii. v. 80 Some resemblances are likewise to be observed between the Kioway and the languages of the southern and western tribes of the Sioux or Dakota stock.
1928 J. P. Harrington Vocab. Kiowa Lang. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 84) 2 Six vowel qualities and twenty-two consonants are found in Kiowa.
1959 E. Tunis Indians 106/1 The fingers of one hand, held up and moved in a shaking circle, was the Kiowa—rattlebrained.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 78 Kiowa (Powell's ‘Kiowan’), a language of the western Plains, seems now to have been reasonably well established as a part of the Aztecan-Tanoan phylum.
2. The designation of a formation of the Lower Cretaceous in Kansas.
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1895 F. W. Cragin in Amer. Geol. 16 162 The upper part of the Kiowa.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to any of the above; Kiowa Apache, an Athabaskan people associated with the Kiowa; a member of this people; also, their language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Tanoan
Picuris1875
Tanoan1909
Tewa1910
Tiwa1910
Kiowa1928
1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. (1898) 64 The Kiowa cheef with his nation had stoped and intended we shold stop with them.
1865 J. Pike Scout & Ranger iv. 64 Houston's design was to carry the war into the Comanche and Kiowa country.
1885 W. P. Clark Indian Sign Lang. 33 This gesture refers to the Apaches living with the Kiowas at the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory..frequently called Kiowa Apaches.
1895 F. W. Cragin in Amer. Geol. 16 162 The Kiowa shales.
1924 C. Schuchert Geol. 541 The Kiowa or Denison fauna.
1928 J. P. Harrington Vocab. Kiowa Lang. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 84) 2 (heading) Vocabulary of the Kiowa language.
1937 J. G. McAllister in F. Eggan Social Anthropol. N. Amer. Tribes iii. 100 Communication was carried on by means of the sign language, and most of the old Kiowa-Apache knew a little Kiowa, though very few of the Kiowa had any knowledge of the Kiowa Apache tongue.
1963 F. E. Edgerton in H. Hoijer Stud. in Athapaskan Langs. in Univ. Calif. Publ. Linguistics 29 102 Western Apache..is one of the Apachean languages. Others are Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Kiowa Apache, Navaho, and Lipan.
1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/4 A Kiowa warrior was forced by custom to give away some of his wealth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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