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单词 potawatomi
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Potawatomin.adj.

Brit. /ˌpɒtəˈwɒtəmi/, U.S. /ˌpɑdəˈwɑdəmi/
Inflections: Plural Potawatomis, Potawatomies, unchanged.
Forms: 1600s Poutouatami, 1700s Pattiwatima, 1700s Poutouatomi, 1700s Poutowatomie, 1700s Putewatemie, 1700s– Potawatami, 1700s– Potawatomi, 1800s Pattawatami, 1800s Potawattami, 1800s Potawatami, 1800s Potawatemi, 1800s Potawatimi, 1800s Potowautomi, 1800s Pottawattamie, 1800s Pottawattomie, 1800s Pottowattamee, 1800s Pottowattamie, 1800s Pottowottomie, 1800s– Potawatomie, 1900s– Pottawatomi.
Origin: Of multiple origins. A borrowing from Ojibwa. Partly also a borrowing from French. Etymons: Ojibwa po·te·wa·tami·; French Poutouätami, Pouteoüatami.
Etymology: < Ojibwa po·te·wa·tami·; compare Potawatomi potewatmi. Partly via French Poutouätami (1697), Pouteoüatami (1667; earlier as Pouutouatomi (1640)).
A. n.
a. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of the northern United States.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Great Lakes
Ottawac1665
Potawatomi1698
Ojibwa1700
Mississauga1703
Menominee1722
Meskwaki1741
Chippewa1754
1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. i. xxiii. 93 We sent afterwards three Men to buy Provisions in the Village with the Calumet or Pipe of Peace, which the Poutouatamis of the Island had given us.
1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 48 The Nations who dwell on this River, are..the Poutouatomis beforemention'd.
1764 Let. 2 Sept. in T. Mante Hist. Late War North-Amer. (1772) 528 Making a formal and regular peace with the Wyandots and Ottawas of Sandusky, Potawatamies, and Chippewas of Saguanam.
1805 J. Wilkinson Let. 12 July in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) 10th Congr. 1 Sess. 575 All hopes of the speedy recovery of their prisoners from the hands of the Pattawatamies, being at an end.
1835 C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 331 The Indians that frequent the neighbourhood of Chicago..are chiefly Pottawattamies and Ottawas, with a few Chippewas.., and a straggling Kickapoo.
1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. iv. 105 The Potawattamies have eight gentes of the same name with eight among the Ojibwas.
1931 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 27 Apr. 7/1 Federal State Clinics held among the Chippewas and Potawatomis in 1930 revealed that tuberculosis is the paramount menace to survival.
1992 Cultural Survival Q. Fall 26/1 ‘The rights we value most are realized only as part of a community’, notes Tim Coulter, a Potawatomi and director of the Indian Law Resource Center.
b. The Algonquian language of this people.
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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 M. Gailland Diary 20 Nov. in Kansas Hist. Q. (1953) 20 508 Father Superior preached..in English, and by the aid of an interpreter, the sermon was translated into Potawatomie.
1873 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 1872 115 The root of ni-mitchi-minan—that of the primary verb ‘to eat’—is found in..Potawatomi.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 72 The Algonquian family covers the northeastern part of the continent and includes the languages of..the Great Lakes region (Ojibwa, Potawatomi..and so on).
1965 Language 41 75 Pike and Erickson's work on Potawatomi..studies the field structures of certain lexical oppositions within given orders of Potawatomi verb affixes.
1995 Language 71 262 A sketch of those aspects of the relatively rich—and relatively complicated—inflectional system of Potawatomi analyzed recently in Anderson.
B. adj.
Of, designating, or relating to this people or its language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages
Shawnee1674
Cree1744
Potawatomi1789
Nipissing1793
Miami1804
Algic1827
Beothuk1842
Blackfoot1845
Yurok1851
Passamaquoddy1856
Plains Cree1860
Maliseet1863
Ojibwa1937
1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. 25 May (1834) 41 The treaties of Fort Harmar..with the Sachems and warriors of the Wyandot,..Pattiwatima, and Sac nations.
1808 Governor Harrison Let. 14 Apr. in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1853) 12th Congr. 1 Sess. 1857 A young man from the Delaware towns came to inform me that a Pottawatomie Indian had arrived at the towns.
1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada III. 55 A distinguished Pottowottomie warrior..was..a good friend to the Long-knives, (The Americans).
1864 Harper's Mag. Nov. 736/1 It wasn't everybody that had the tastes of a Pottawatomie redskin.
1907 in E. H. Blair Indian Tribes of Upper Mississippi II. 287 Out on the bare prairies of Kansas I lived with the Pottawatomi Indians for four years.
1978 Maledicta 2 233 I am told that the name [of Waukesha in Wisconsin] is from the Potawatomi word for ‘fox’.
1992 L. Woidwode Indian Affairs viii. 167 The pillow was homemade, dark green, embroidered in Potawatomi geometry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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