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单词 padouca
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Padoucan.adj.

Brit. /pəˈduːkə/, U.S. /pəˈdukə/
Inflections: Plural Padoucas, unchanged.
Forms: 1700s Podoquia, 1700s– Padouca, 1700s– Paduca, 1800s Padduca, 1800s Padoucah, 1800s Padoucee, 1800s Paducar, 1800s Perduka, 1800s– Padouka, 1800s– Paducah.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Padouca.
Etymology: < French Padouca (1726 or earlier: see quot. below) < Illinois paatoohka, patoka Comanche < Osage patõkka (compare Kansa ppádokka, Omaha-Ponca ppá-dąkka, literally ‘stubby head’).a1726 G. de L'Isle Atlas Nouveau (1730) ii. (Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi) Pays des Apaches et des Padoucas.In forms Padouca, Padouka probably after French.
A. n.
A member of a North American Indian people of the southern Great Plains, identified by many authorities with the Plains Apache and in later use with the Comanches. Usually in plural.
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Quapaw1698
Padouca1746
Sarcee1801
Comanche1806
Tonkawa1806
Wichita1841
1746 J. B. D'Anville New Map Whole Continent Amer. (1794) Sheet 2 White Paducas. Black Paducas.
1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 139 Some authors mention..several other Indian nations on the banks of the Missouri, which are..lastly, the Padoucas, by far the most considerable of them all.
1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 40 The Arcansas or Quapas Indians..bring in very frequently young prisoners and horses from the Cadodaquias, Paneise, Podoquias, &c.
1805 W. Clark Jrnl. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 439 They..inhabit the country to which the Padoucas are said to have removed.
1885 Standard Nat. Hist. VI. 188 The Comanchee tribe is one of the most important in North America. In older works they figure as the Paducahs, the name applied to them by the Osage.
1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country 150 Others affirmed that somewhere in Kentucky there was a tribe known as the Paducas who spoke Welsh and were whiter than other Indians.
1961 Amer. Antiq. 26 570 The enigmatic Padouca are identifiable first as the Apache and later as the Comanche.
2003 Wales on Sunday (Nexis) 9 Feb. 22 It has been estimated that between 1550 and 1850, about 15 Indian peoples were declared by the Madogwys (Madog theorists) as descendants of Madog. These include the Mandans, the Kutenai, the Padoucas, the Comanches, the Aztecs and the Cherokee.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Padoucas.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > others
Padouca1760
Quapaw1770
black-footed1772
Sarcee1790
Ozark1816
Comanche1819
Tonkawa1870
earth lodge1885
Skidi1891
1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 140 The Padouca Indians are a very numerous people, inhabiting a country near 200 leagues in extent.
?1797 G. Burder Welch Indians 15 When Mr. Ch. was introduced to the Chief of the Padouca nation, he was received with much solemnity, owing to his being of white complexion.
1821 E. James in Early Western Trav. (1905) XIV. 243 A female prisoner, of the Padouca nation, whom he had adopted and taken into his family.
1830 J. A. Jones Trad. N. Amer. Indians II. ii. 21 He it was who first sounded the war-whoop; he it was who took the first Padouca scalp.
1920 Amer. Anthropologist 22 249 Omaha and Ponka traditions speak of a Padouca village in the sand hills near the Niobara river.
1955 J. C. Ewers Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 159) 219 The great Padouca chief told Bourgmont, in 1724, his people received a horse for 3 buffalo robes in their trade with the Spaniards.
2003 Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 Jan. Bourgmont..wanted to trade with the Indians and make treaties with the Padouca Indians, also known as the Comanches.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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