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单词 mojave
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Mojaven.adj.

Brit. /mə(ʊ)ˈhɑːvi/, U.S. /moʊˈhɑvi/, /məˈhɑvi/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mojaves.
Forms: 1800s Machávìs, 1800s Mahave, 1800s Mah-ha-os, 1800s mohahve, 1800s Mohavi, 1800s Mohawa, 1800s– Mohave, 1800s– Mojave.
Origin: A borrowing from Mojave. Etymon: Mojave hàmakhá:v.
Etymology: < Mojave hàmakhá:v, self-designation. The form Mojave is probably a respelling after Spanish Mojave (1877 or earlier), which is itself probably < English (although the word is attested earlier in Spanish in the forms Amacava (1605), Amacabos (plural; c1629)).Other renderings of the Mojave self-designation (e.g. Amajavas, Ammuchabas, A–moc-há-ves, Amojaves, Amoχawi, Hamockhave, Wah muk a-hah′-ve) also occur in English contexts.
A. n.
1. A member of a Yuman North American Indian people living along the lower Colorado River in California and Arizona.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [noun]
Mojave1831
Mono1851
Miwok1856
Mutsun1857
Luiseño1858
Monache1870
Yokuts1877
Yawelmani1907
1831 J. O. Pattie Personal Narr. Exped. from St. Louis 93 We resumed our march, and on the 6th arrived at another village of Indians called Mohawa.
1853 L. Sitgreaves Rep. Exped. Zuñi & Colorado Rivers 18 The appearance of the Mohaves is striking, from their unusual stature, the men averaging at least six feet in height.
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions i. i. 46 Among the Mojaves, it is believed that everyone dead under the doctor's hand falls under his power in the next life.
1963 S. M. Ervin & W. R. Miller in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 85 The Mohave claim newborn children can understand speech.
1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 196 The Yumas were similar to the neighboring Mohaves and Cocopah.
2. The Yuman language of the Mojave.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Hokan > miscellaneous Hokan languages
Mojave1877
Washoe1882
Yana1891
Karok1913
Tonkawa1931
1877 Mag. Amer. Hist. 1 153 Languages, with a sonorous, sweet, soft, and vocalic utterance,..are the Mohave, Hualapai, [etc.].
1970 Language 46 538 There is some evidence in Mohave for contrastive pitch.
1978 Language 54 486 Mojave, like the other languages of the River group of the Yuman family, has proliferated (or preserved?) a large number of vocalic ablaut alternatives.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating this people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Central and South California > [adjective]
Mojave1844
Mutsun1857
Yokuts1877
Yawelmani1907
Miwok1916
Yokutsan1956
1844 J. C. Frémont Rep. 23 Apr. i. 676 He had been found by a party of the Mohahve (sometimes called Amuchaba) Indians.
1855 Suppl. Connecticut Courant 79/1 When brought in, she was dressed as all the females of the Yuma Mohave Indians.
1858 Harper's Mag. Sept. 463/1 When the trading was concluded, the Mojave people sauntered about the camp.
1899 Harper's Weekly 14 Jan. 45/1 The old-medicine man, our oldest Mojave scout, was almost paralyzed with fear.
1949 Word 5 268 (title) Mohave voice and speech mannerisms.
1998 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 20 Sept. 24/3 The wife of a wealthy rancher is kidnapped [and] sold into slavery to the Mojave tribe.
2006 A. O'Brien Traveling Indian Arizona 234 An important Chemehuevi ritual song, the Salt Song, is composed entirely of Mojave words pronounced so that they cannot be understood by either Mojave or Chemehuevi.

Compounds

In the names of plants and animals associated with the Mojave Desert in southern California (an area which overlaps with but is not identical to the region inhabited by the Mojave people).
Mojave aster n. a small, aster-like perennial, Xylorhiza tortifolia (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with purplish to white ray flowers and a yellow disc, which is found chiefly in the Mojave and Colorado deserts; also called desert aster.
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1933 E. C. Jaeger Calif. Deserts 131 When it comes out in force on the gravelly mesas and rocky hills, the Mohave aster..presents an equally striking spectacle.
1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) i. 19 I discovered that the desert dandelions and Mojave asters and many other flowers close up at night.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) Machaeranthera... tortifolia... Mojave aster.
1994 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 18 Dec. n1 After brief rains of spring and random torrential downpours of summer, desertgold, Mojave aster, desert fivespot, gravel ghost and primrose leap into being.
Mojave rattlesnake n. a North American rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, chiefly found in desert habitats, whose green to brown body has a distinctive dorsal pattern of darker brown, pale-edged diamonds.
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1930 Bull. Zool. Soc. San Diego No. 9. 70 Crotalus scutulatus. Mojave Rattlesnake.
1948 Ecol. Monogr. 18 172/1 Snakes taken in the area include..the Mohave rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus.
1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 9730/2 Mojave rattlesnakes..decreased to an estimated 15–25% of their original numbers between the late 1960s and late 1980s.
Mojave yucca n. a large, shrubby yucca, Yucca schidigera, common in North American deserts; also called Spanish dagger.
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1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 107 Mohave yucca.
1972 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 41 292 The Mojave yucca (Y. schidigera Roezl ex Ortiges) is widespread, particularly at lower elevations.
1998 R. J. Taylor Desert Wildflowers N. Amer. 164 Mojave yucca was important to California Indians, who gathered and roasted the fruits or ate them raw.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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