单词 | montagnais-naskapi |
释义 | > as lemmasMontagnais-Naskapi Montagnais-Naskapi n. a member of the Montagnais and Naskapi peoples collectively (cf. Naskapi adj. and n.); (also) their languages regarded together as a single language (cf. sense A. 2a); also as adj. ΚΠ 1926 F. G. Speck in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 65 275 It would then be more appropriate..to refer to the Indians of the whole area as Montagnais-Naskapi, there being some authority in earlier literature for the retention of these two names. 1928 W. C. MacLeod Amer. Indian Frontier App. X. 560 Most of the Algonkian peoples speak (or spoke) languages of the Eastern-Central group... The Cree sub-group includes Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi..; also Abenaki..and Pennakook. 1937 J. E. Lips Savage hits Back ix. 212 Both are the work of an old Algonquian, a Montagnais-Naskapi of the Lake St. John band. 1973 D. Zimmerly in E. Goudie Woman of Labrador ii. iv. 103 (note) [Mukkoshan is the] Montagnais-Naskapi Indian word used by settlers to denote a feast or party. 1981 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VI. 185/2 The compound Montagnais-Naskapi was introduced..to include all the Algonquians of the Labrador Peninsula, but it and expressions like Montagnais and Naskapi are sometimes intended to exclude the East Cree. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Newfoundland A tiny population of Inuit (Eskimo) and North American Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi) occupy four or five villages on the northern coast of Labrador. < as lemmas |
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