单词 | pequot |
释义 | Pequotn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people of eastern Connecticut. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Powhatan1608 Mohicanc1614 Massachusett1616 Penobscot1624 Pequot1631 Narragansett1637 Nipmuc1637 Algonquin1667 Wampanoag1676 Minisink1694 Abenaki1698 Lenape1728 Maliseet1749 Munsee1756 Passamaquoddy1759 Micmac1760 Podunk1797 Algic1839 Virginia Algonquian1903 1631 in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1834) IV. 226 Wee heare their numbers exceed any but the Pecoates and Nawagansets. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. ii. vi. 109 The English sought by all means to keepe these [fighting men] at least from confederating with the Pequods. 1798 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes & Nations Amer. (ed. 2) p. xix The Pequants and the Narragansets in the southern parts. 1849 O. W. Holmes Poems 256 He heard the Pequot's ringing whoop. 1871 C. M. Yonge Pioneers & Founders i. 8 The Pequots were..at war with the Dutch. 1945 C. M. Webster Town Meeting Country 11 The Pequots were probably the bravest and most ferocious of all the New England tribes. 1993 Day (New London, Connecticut) 27 Jan. a10/3 It would be as wrong to eradicate the Mason statue and the lessons it holds of white perceptions of Pequots. 2. The Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Pequots. Now historical. 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 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. p. xiii Colds in the head..Transformed the helpless Hebrew thrice a week To guttural Pequot or resounding Greek. 1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 195 Their language, of course, remained Pequot, a dialect which shows a..striking kinship..with the present speech of the Canadian Abenakis. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 23 Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College, recorded word lists of Pequot in 1762. B. adj. Of or relating to the Pequots or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Massachusett1622 Pequot1634 Nipmuc1636 Mohican1637 Natick1677 Minisink1694 Algonquin1698 Passamaquoddy1726 Penobscot1727 Abenaki1746 Micmac1767 Maliseet1770 Munsee1779 Powhatan1785 Mashpee1809 Powhatanic1855 Virginia Algonquian1870 Wampanoag1948 Mashpee Wampanoag1977 1634 J. Winthrop Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1996) 134 2: or 300: of the narag[ansett]. were come..to kill the Pekod embassadors. 1637 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1850) I. 10 To parle w[i]th the bay aboute o[u]r settinge downe in the Pequoitt Countrey. 1673 in Connecticut Public Rec. II. 213 Moween..was secured in the common goale upon suspition of murthering a Pequit girl. 1714 S. Sewall Diary (1882) III. 12 Commissioners met to give Govr. Sattonstall an Opportunity to vindicate himself relating to the Pequot and Mohegan Indians. 1871 C. M. Yonge Pioneers & Founders i. 6 The Pequot Indians, a tall, well-proportioned, and active tribe, belonging to the great Iroquois nation. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. a2/2 Among their guests is to be John Hamilton, Chief Rolling Cloud of the Mohegan and Pequot American Indian tribes. 1991 Boston June 74/3 Hayward bid for and was elected to the position of chairperson of the Pequot tribe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1631 |
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