Nottowayadj.n.
/ˈnɒtəweɪ/, U.S. /ˈnɑdəˌweɪ/ Now historical.
A. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or designating a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting the area on the banks of the Nottoway River in southern Virginia.
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1650 E. Bland Jrnl. 2 Sept. in Discov. New Brit. (1651) sig. B3v Wee having some suspition that..our Runner had not beene where we had sent him, through some information of our Nottaway guide.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 234 The several Nations of Indians that are our Neighbours... Nottaway Indians, Town 1, Winoack Creek, Fighting Men 30.
1728 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line (1984) 112 In the Morning we despacht a runner to the Nottoway Town, to let the Indians know we intend them a Visit that Evening.
1926 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 6 11 [Gooch] was appealed to by the Nottoway Indians, since they had been threatened by the Meherrins.
2000 K. W. Townsend World War II & Amer. Indian iv. 88 Plecker uncovered written accusations made by a few white citizens in the mid-nineteenth century of Indian intermarriage with African Americans, particularly among the Pamunkey, Chickahominey, Gingaskin and Nottoway tribes.
2. Of or designating the Northern Iroquoian language formerly spoken by the Nottoway people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Iroquoian > of specific Iroquoian languages
Cherokee1674
Wyandot1780
Nottoway1822
Onondaga1974
1822 J. Morse Rep. to Secretary of War on Indian Affairs 31 This Queen, and two others..are all who now speak the ancient, or Nottoway, or Powhatan language.
1885 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 1884 2 ii. 90 It will be seen that M. Picard used the t as in Cartier's lists,..where the d is employed in others; except in the Nottoway numerals.
1979 L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 165 PNI *n shifted to Nottoway t except before nasalized vowels.
B. n.
1. A member of the Nottoway people.
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1676 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 9 1 We were forced to goe quite out of our way Southward, to get of the Nottowaies.
1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. xiii. 63 In Surry. Nottawayes, which are about a hundred Bow men, of late a thriving and increasing People.
1711 W. Byrd Diary 26 Mar. (1941) 319 The Governor..sent an order to the Nottoways.
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xi. 221 Besides these [sc. the Powhatans] were the Nottoways, living on Nottoway river.
1822 J. Morse Rep. to Secretary of War on Indian Affairs 31 The Nottoways possess 27,000 acres of excellent land, on the W. bank of the river which bears their name.
1883 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 12 286 The head-waters of the Virginian rivers, and parts of North Carolina, were occupied by the Nottoways, Tutelos, Tuscaroras, and other members of the Monahoac (Monacan) branch of the Iroquois family.
1919 D. I. Bushnell Native Villages & Village Sites East of Mississippi ii. 57 The Nottoway continued their tribal organization as late as 1825, though greatly reduced in numbers.
2. The Northern Iroquoian language formerly spoken by the Nottoway people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages
Mohawk1754
Cherokee1761
Huron1776
Nottoway1830
Wyandot1837
Onondaga1887
Cayuga1933
Oneida1933
Tuscarora1933
1830 E. James Narr. John Tanner 330 [Comparison of numerals, to ten, in several American Dialects] 37. Naudoway—from Tanner. Wis-ka-ut [etc.].
1884 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 2 89 The adigue, ‘eight’..reappears in the Nottoway as dekra.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 773/1 Southern offshoots [of the Iroquoian language family]..: Meherrin and Nottoway in Virginia.
1997 L. Campbell Amer. Indian Langs. iv. 150/2 Nottaway (extinct and known only from word lists recorded early in the nineteenth century) and Tuscarora are closely related in a subbranch of Northern Iroquoian.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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