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单词 miami
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Miamin.adj.

Brit. /mʌɪˈami/, U.S. /ˌmaɪˈæmi/
Inflections: Plural Miamies, Miamis, unchanged.
Forms: 1600s– Miami, 1700s Mami, 1700s Miamiha, 1700s Mineamie, 1700s Miyami, 1800s Maumi.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Miami.
Etymology: < French Miami (1673) < Illinois miamioua, originally ‘person from downstream’.The Illinois word miamioua can also be transcribed mya:mi:wa, more closely representing the phonemes involved. The people were first known in French as Oumamik (1658), Oumami, and Oumamis (both 1670; < an Old Ottawa form phonemically transcribed oma:mi:k Miami Indians); their name was subsequently borrowed directly < Illinois in the form Miamioüek (1670; < Illinois *miamiouaki, later miamiaki) before the form Miami became established.
A. n.
1. A member of an Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the north-eastern United States (chiefly Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) and, more recently, areas of Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of prairies
Shawnee1693
Illinois1698
Mascouten1698
Miami1698
Kickapoo1722
Peoria1722
Piankashaw1722
Sauk1722
1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. xxxv. 141 The Miamis arriv'd much about that time, and danc'd the Calumet with the Illinois.
1754 E. Bowen Map of Brit. Amer. Plantations Twightwis or Miyamis.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 256 A little traffic he drove in peltry, during his sachemship among the Miamis.
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 278 The Seneca Indians interrupted this trade, because the French supplied the Miamies, with whom they were then at war, with arms and ammunition.
a1829 W. Clark et al. in H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. (1853) III. 592 Weas..This tribe is a branch of the Miamies, and formerly lived upon the Wabash.
1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. vi. 169 The Shawnees had a practice, common also to the Miamis.., of naming children into the gens of the father or of the mother.
1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 853/2 According to the early French explorers the Miamis were distinguished for polite manners, mild, affable, and sedate character.
1970 B. Anson Miami Indians 11 The Miami had no legends or myths of previous migrations.
1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart Prologue 11 The Miamis..found themselves..being attacked on the west by their mortal enemies, the Sioux.
2. The (now extinct) Algonquian language of the Miamies, a dialect of the same language as that spoken by the Illinois. Occasionally more fully Miami-Illinois.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages
Illinois1703
Ojibwa1743
Chippewa1791
Shawnee1792
Miami-Illinois1804
Natick1822
Delaware1826
Munsee1828
Nanticoke1845
Blackfoot1846
Pequot1848
Potawatomi1848
Wiyot1851
Montagnais1852
Passamaquoddy1856
Abenaki1858
Narragansett1866
Lenape1888
Penobscot1891
Powhatan1895
Menominee1896
Micmac1902
Meskwaki1907
Maliseet1912
Cheyenne1933
Kickapoo1933
Massachusett1933
Mohican1933
Sauk1933
Virginia Algonquian1971
Ottawa1982
1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 430 (heading) Miami after the French Orthography.
1845 R. G. Latham in Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 xxviii. 33/1 English ear... Miami tawakeh.
1899 Amer. Anthropologist 1 156 The form iníni is represented in Peoria, Miami, and other dialects also, but not as a substantive.
1938 C. F. Voegelin Shawnee Stems 63 Comparative evidence..suggests that Miami contains some pre-aspiration and vocalic length not recorded in the manuscript. The manuscript dictionary is given in the order English-Miami.
1992 I. Goddard in Internat. Encycl. Linguistics I. 44 [The Algonkian family includes] several languages whose speakers have moved south and west from the Upper Great Lakes.., namely Potawatomi, Fox-Kickapoo, Shawnee, and Miami-Illinois.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Miamies or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of prairies
Shawnee1674
Illinois1698
Piankashaw1753
Miami1762
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages
Shawnee1674
Cree1744
Potawatomi1789
Nipissing1793
Miami1804
Algic1827
Beothuk1842
Blackfoot1845
Yurok1851
Passamaquoddy1856
Plains Cree1860
Maliseet1863
Ojibwa1937
1762 T. Hutchins Jrnl. 13 Aug. in H. Bouquet Papers (1943) 171 The 13th had a Meeting with the Mineamie Indians.
1792 G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. Western Territory N. Amer. 68 The vigorous measures which their depredations have obliged Congress to adopt, must end with a permanent peace, or in a few years their provocations will lead to the extirpation of the whole of the Miami and Illinois tribes.
1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 427 I shall here add a vocabulary of the Miami tongue.
1818 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. 100 One young man.., of the Miami nation, had a clear light blue cotton vest with sleeves.
1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 853/1 There was a Miami village at Detroit in 1703.
1938 C. F. Voegelin Shawnee Stems 63 Since contrastive forms are generally lacking, I do not attempt an editorial analysis of Miami compounds.
1989 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 88/3 The staple of the Miami diet was a particular type of maize (corn) that was considered superior to that cultivated by their neighbours.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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