单词 | ottawa |
释义 | Ottawan.adj. Usually historical in later use. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting the area around Lake Huron (at the time of first European contact) and later chiefly northern Wisconsin and Michigan and southern Ontario. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Great Lakes Ottawac1665 Potawatomi1698 Ojibwa1700 Mississauga1703 Menominee1722 Meskwaki1741 Chippewa1754 c1665 P. E. Radisson Voy. (1885) 171 Some of the strongest and nimblest ffrench kept them company, wth an other great number of men called Ottauacks [printed Ottanacks]. 1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. I. 43 The ancient Country of the Hurons, the Outaouacts, and several other Nations. 1768 J. Lees Jrnl. Aug. (1911) 39 On the Miami River, the greatest part of the nation of the Ottawas inhabit, they..are spread about it..chiefly on the North side of Lake Huron..and towards the North West. 1777 T. Anburey Let. 17 July in Trav. Interior Parts Amer. (1789) I. xxxiv. 356 The Outawas, and some remoter nations, are on the road to join us. 1833 A. Jackson in Messages & Papers of Presidents (1896) III. 38 I transmit..a treaty concluded between the commissioners on the part of the United States and the united nation of Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatamies, at Chicago. 1899 F. H. Severance Old Trails Niagara Frontier 21 He was induced to turn aside by an Iroquois Indian who had been a prisoner among the Ottawas. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 171/1 There were 197 Ottawa under the Seneca School, Okla. 1967 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) xviii. 282 The Iroquois turned their arms against the Ottawa and drove them from Georgian bay. 1996 Amer. Hist. Rev. 101 1626/2 Some Ottawas served as sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac. 2. The Ojibwa language of this people. 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 1982 Papers 13th Algonquian Conf. 5 A trade language area whose inhabitants' ancestors gave up their native dialect for the trade language dialect, Ottawa. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 261 The Ojibwa passage..(from an Ottawa speaker) shows how these particles can be used. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Ottawa or (occasionally) their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Great Lakes Ottawa1687 Mississauga1749 Chippewa1764 Meskwaki1816 Menominee1823 1687 in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1853) III. 442 A party of Sinnekes and Onnondages have plundered some French..and have also taken some Ottawa Indians prisoners. 1754 G. Washington Let. 24 Apr. in Writings (1889) I. 51 600 of the Chippoways and Ottoway Indians are marching down Scioto Creek. 1768 J. Lees Jrnl. Aug. (1911) 39 The Pous and Chipewas have almost the same language, and is [sic] called the Ottawa-Tongue. 1873 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 1872 196 Apéingi..Baraga marks as an Ottawa word. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 113 When men of the Bear clan in the Otawa tribe killed a bear, they made him a feast of his own flesh. 1944 Amer. Antiq. 9 315 They were visited by Ottawa traders. 1992 Amer. Hist. Rev. 97 288/2 The attempt by the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians to reassert treaty rights to fish these waters commercially without state supervision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1665 |
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