单词 | miami |
释义 | Miamin.adj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1698 |
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