单词 | okanagan |
释义 | Okanagann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting southern British Columbia and northern Washington state. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun] Slave1789 beaver1801 Carrier1801 Musqueam1808 Nootkian1811 Okanagan1814 Takulli1820 Dogrib1823 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Bella Coola1834 Nootkan1835 Chilkat1836 Nootka1846 Squamish1846 Siwash1847 Kwakiutl1848 Nitinaht1848 Sitkan1848 Sitka1853 Makah1855 Stick Indian1857 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Mattole1864 Tlingit1865 Nisga'a1874 Hoochinoo1878 Nimpkish1885 Tsimshian1888 Gitksan1889 Nuxalk1910 Snohomish1910 Nuu-chah-nulth1983 Ditidaht1988 'Namgis1994 1814 A. Ross Jrnl. 25 July in A. Ross Fur Hunters of Far West (1956) 37 In exchange, the Oakinackens bring back any marine shells and other trinkets. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 225 The first and more northern Indians of the interior may be denominated the Shahaptan Family, and comprehends..the Shahaptan, or Nez Percés..; the Kliketat..; and the Okanagan. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 114/2 In 1906 there were 527 Okinagan on Colville res., Wash., and 824 under the Kamloops—Okanagan agency, British Columbia. 1958 J. R. Christie & I. C. MacNaughton Story Okanagan Falls i. 11 The Okanagan perhaps had Jewish travellers here. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 330/2 The Upper Columbia area, a mainly wooded area with grassland in river valleys, is the home country of such Salish groups as the Okanagon and Flathead. 2. The Interior Salishan language of the Okanagan. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Salish > Salish languages Okanagan1827 Spokane1875 Nisqually1877 Twana1886 Songhees1911 Shuswap1927 Tillamook1927 Squamish1934 Snohomish1940 Lushootseed1976 Skokomish1977 1827 in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1947) 10 229 Picard Andre... Ingenious—speaks the Okanakan well. 1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. iii. 615 The northernmost Salish language is the Shushwap.., then there are the..Pend d'Oreille, the Spokane, the Soaiatlpi, and the Okanagan, which with others spoken on the Columbia show close affinities. 1950 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 16 163 We find that Tillamook is just as far removed from its closest congener on the Coast, namely Lower Fraser, as from Okanagan of the Interior Languages. 1988 Canad. Encycl. (ed. 2) III. 1926/2 In BC this language is known in English as ‘Okanagan’, and in Washington state it is most often called ‘Colville’. B. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or designating the Okanagan. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective] Dogrib1766 Nootka1784 Nootkan1790 Dog-ribbed1791 beaver1801 Okanagan1814 Carrier1820 Sitka1822 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Nass1830 Tsimshian1836 Sitkan1851 Makah1855 Snohomish1856 Wakash1856 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Nisga'a1874 Tlingit1881 Nimpkish1886 Wakashan1892 Musqueam1902 Gitksan1917 Squamish1928 'Namgis1966 Nuu-chah-nulth1978 Nuxalk1981 1814 A. Ross Jrnl. 25 July in A. Ross Fur Hunters of Far West (1855) i. 44 The red Fox..spoken of, was the head chief of the Oakanagan nation. 1836 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mountains 1 June (1838) xxii. 296 I had an opportunity to see some of the Okanagan tribe. 1930 J. A. Teit & F. Boas in 45th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 198 Some Okanagan and Sanpoil informants stated that the name is that of a place at or near Okanagan Falls, where there was at one time an important salmon fishery, the place of their origin. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples xix. 402 A former fur trader who retired to the Red River Settlement with his Okanagan wife and their children. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1814 |
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