单词 | potawatomi |
释义 | Potawatomin.adj. A. n. a. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of the northern United States. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1698 |
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