单词 | pintupi |
释义 | Pintupin.adj. A. n. 1. A member of an Australian Aboriginal people inhabiting the eastern region of the Gibson Desert, Central Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [noun] > specific peoples Kamilaroi1856 Wiradjuri1884 Aranda1891 Tiwi1930 Pintupi1933 Kurnai1965 1933 G. Róheim in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 63 233 According to the belief of the Yumu and Pindupi a demon called Inyutalu (Hair big) is the cause of menstruation. 1940 Trans. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 64 187 ˈPintubi, ˈPi:ntupi, Loc.: Lake Mackay, Mount Russell, Ehrenberg Range, Kintore Range, Warman Rocks; an unknown distance to west. 1961 Man 61 5 (title) A narcotic from Nicotiana ingulba, used by the desert Bindibu. 1982 C. Yallop Austral. Aboriginal Langs. ii. 43 The Pitjantjatjara and Pintupi and several other desert peoples of Central and Western Australia actually speak ‘dialects’ which can be classified as the Western Desert language. 1994 Nature 24 Mar. 362/3 The loss of language is also the loss of a dimension of consciousness: there are 80 consonants in Ubykh and the Pintupi have at least ten words for a hole in the ground. 2. The Western Desert language spoken by this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Australian Aboriginal > [noun] > Australian languages Kamilaroi1856 Wiradjuri1894 Dyirbal1910 Tiwi1930 Murngin1931 Pintupi1933 Nyungar1939 Aranda1956 Kurnai1965 1933 Oceania 3 251 Ngalia woman, speaks Pintubi. 1964 D. Lockwood Lizard Eaters 93 ‘Ahhhh!’ It probably means in Pintubi exactly what it means in English—an expressive sigh of satisfaction. 2002 R. M. W. Dixon Austral. Langs. i. 5 Speakers of Pitjantjatjarra, Yankuntjatjarra and Pintupi recognise that these are mutually intelligible. B. adj. (attributive). Of or relating to this people or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective] > specific peoples Wiradjuri1884 Pitta-Pitta1886 Aranda1896 Dyirbal1910 Kurnai1911 Pintupi1933 Tasmanoid1938 1933 Oceania 3 247 ‘Water no good. It stinks. Dead man in there,’ said Lilitjukurpa, a Pintubi native, at the Ilbilla Soak. 1957 Illustr. London News 7 Sept. 372/1 The biggest problem faced by the Pintibu [sic] tribe in the tough, dry region in which they live is the lack of water. 1985 S. Cane & O. Stanley Land Use & Resources in Desert Homeland 56 He is a Pintupi man and said he is planning to move back to ‘proper’ Pintupi country. 2000 Brisbane News (Nexis) 1 Mar. George Tjapaltjarri, a doctor of bush medicine renowned among his own people of the Pintupi language group. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1933 |
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