单词 | pomo |
释义 | Pomon.1adj.1 A. n.1 1. A member of any of several neighbouring North American Indian peoples of northern California speaking closely related languages.In popular use, applied loosely to these peoples collectively without regard to their individual distinctness. Originally used with reference to a particular Northern Pomo village (see quot. 1852 and cf. the etymology). ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North California and South Washington > [noun] Multnomah1804 Palouse1827 Ohlone1831 Haida1841 Shasta1843 Karok1851 Wiyot1851 Pomo1852 Hupa1853 Modoc1854 Wishram1855 Yuki1858 Nisenan1873 Achumawi1874 Takelma1881 Shastan1910 Yana1910 Yahi1911 Pomoan1979 1852 G. Gibbs Jrnl. 21 Aug. in H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. (1853) III. 112 Four bands consented to enter into a treaty, viz., the Sah-nel, Yukai, Pomo, and Masu-ta-kaya; numbering in all, as was supposed, 1042 souls. 1872 Overland Monthly Apr. 328/1 The great family of Pomos on Russian River..have many dialects, and a name for each—as Ballo Ki Pomos, Cahto Pomos, etc. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 277/1 The Pomo were the most southerly stock on the coast not brought under the mission influence of the Franciscans. 1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 39 One-rod coiling was done by the Pomo and Paiute. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 239/2 Most of the Pomo knew more than one Pomoan language, with boys often being sent to neighboring villages to learn its language. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Aug. b7 Drake's accounts of natives he met correspond to the Pomos of the California coast. 2. A family of seven mutually unintelligible languages spoken in California; = Pomoan n. and adj. Also: with modifying word, any of these languages.This family comprises Southeastern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southern Pomo, and Southwestern Pomo (or Kashaya). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Hokan > Pomo Pomo1872 Pomoan1963 1872 Overland Monthly Dec. 500/2 They [sc. the ‘Cahto Pomos’, the Athabaskan-speaking Kato] do not speak Pomo entirely pure, but employ a mixture of that and Wi Lackee. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 826/2 Californian Races.—This is mainly a geographical grouping, but with three large ethnical and linguistic families—the Klamath, Pomo, and Runsien. 1913 Science 7 Feb. 225/2 The new larger [native Indian language] families..are..Hokan, comprising Shasta, Chimariko and Pomo, probably Karok, and possibly Yana. 1965 Language 41 305 Pomo..shows no initial vowel in any of the languages. 1979 M. Langdon in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 627 The only clue about the origin of instrumental prefixes in Pomo is McLendon's (1975) observation that, in Eastern Pomo, the shape and meaning of an instrumental prefix occasionally is reminiscent of that of an existing verb root. B. adj.1 Of or relating to the various peoples designated as Pomo or their languages.In early use applied to the Northern Pomo language of a particular village (see quot. 1875). ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North California and South Washington > [adjective] Palouse1836 Haida1841 Shasta1843 Pit River1851 Yurok1851 Modoc1854 Pomo1872 Achumawi1874 Yuki1875 Nisenan1877 Takelma1907 Shastan1910 Yahi1911 Wiyot1918 Ohlone1964 the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Hokan > Pomo Pomo1872 Pomoan1977 1872 Overland Monthly Dec. 500/2 There is seldom one who cannot speak most of the Pomo dialects within a day's journey of his ancestral valley. 1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. ii. iv. 643 The different tribes known by the names of Ukiahs or Yokias, Sanèls,..and Matoles, speak different dialects of the Pomo language, which obtains in Potter Valley and the dialects of which become more and more estranged according to the distance from the aboriginal centre. 1933 M. R. Harrington Gypsum Cave, Nevada 87 The Pomo ‘tee-weave’ is somewhat similar. 1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VIII. 274 The most divergent of the Pomoan languages differ from one another more than do the Germanic languages... Thus one cannot talk about the Pomo language, but only about the Pomoan family. 2002 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 1 Feb. (Pasatiempo section) p24 (caption) White glass beads, quail plumes and red woodpecker feathers adorn this Pomo basket made around 1907. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : po-mon.2 also refers to : po-moadj.2 < n.1adj.11852 see also |
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