punan.

Brit.

/ˈpuːnə/, U.S.

/ˈpunə/

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish puna.

Etymology: < American Spanish puna (1562 in sense 1, early 19th cent. in sense 2) < Quechua púna high point (mentioned already in the Quechua dictionary of G. de Holguín, 1608). Compare French puna (1598 in Middle French in sense 1 in a translation of the same passage as is translated in quot. 1604; 1855 in sense 2).

1. A high bleak plateau in the southern Andes; spec. the high grassland lying between the Western and Eastern Cordilleras of the Andes. Cf. altiplano n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > plateau > types of

puna1604

potrero1872

sand glacier1875

parma1888

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. ix. 149 There are other desarts or places inhabited, which at Peru they call Punas [Sp. Punas]..where the quallitie of the ayre cutteth off mans life without feeling.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 93 Vicunnas,..breeding..in cold and desert-Places, which they call Punas.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 50 It snuffs the thin air..in those loftier ridges which the Peruvians term punas, where the elements appear to have concentrated all their sternness.

1885 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 22 6 I am inclined to place the lower limit of the Alpine zone on the puna at about 12,000 feet.

1969 J. Mander Static Society vi. 158 The high, infertile plateau of the Bolivian puna.

1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 20/4 The true subject of the novel is the brutal, unrelenting landscape of the puna: the high tableland of north-west Argentina.

2. Altitude sickness, mountain sickness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > atmospheric pressure

puna1835

mountain sickness1848

soroche1878

caisson disease1883

the bends1894

altitude sickness1901

caisson sickness1911

decompression sickness1941

ebullism1956

1835 C. Darwin Diary (1933) 292 The short breathing from the rarefied atmosphere is called by the Chilenos ‘Puna’.

1903 Longman's Mag. July 218 José..was suffering from puna.

1933 A. F. Tschiffely Tschiffely's Ride (1935) 43 My nose began to bleed profusely; I had ‘puna’.

1976 Lancet 27 Nov. 1177/1 In 1913 Ravenhill pointed out that in addition to this self-limiting form of acute mountain sickness (‘puna’, ‘soroche’) there were two other varieties.

1992 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 28 Nov. Workers at the mine have to contend with puna (altitude sickness) which led the company to offer a more generous shift pattern.

Compounds

puna wind n. a cold dry wind which blows from the Cordilleras across the puna.

ΚΠ

1884 Science 14 Mar. 334/2 The effects produced are similar to those of the ‘Puna wind’ of Peru, and the ‘Hammattan’ of Africa.

1997 R. Kirk Monkey's Paw 9 What if I were taken into the glare of the headlights on the rocky road, with the fleeing hares and the prick of the puna wind, and made to kneel?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	puna
释义	punan. Brit. /ˈpuːnə/, U.S. /ˈpunə/ Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish puna. Etymology: < American Spanish puna (1562 in sense 1, early 19th cent. in sense 2) < Quechua púna high point (mentioned already in the Quechua dictionary of G. de Holguín, 1608). Compare French puna (1598 in Middle French in sense 1 in a translation of the same passage as is translated in quot. 1604; 1855 in sense 2). 1. A high bleak plateau in the southern Andes; spec. the high grassland lying between the Western and Eastern Cordilleras of the Andes. Cf. altiplano n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > plateau > types of puna1604 potrero1872 sand glacier1875 parma1888 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. ix. 149 There are other desarts or places inhabited, which at Peru they call Punas [Sp. Punas]..where the quallitie of the ayre cutteth off mans life without feeling. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 93 Vicunnas,..breeding..in cold and desert-Places, which they call Punas. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 50 It snuffs the thin air..in those loftier ridges which the Peruvians term punas, where the elements appear to have concentrated all their sternness. 1885 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 22 6 I am inclined to place the lower limit of the Alpine zone on the puna at about 12,000 feet. 1969 J. Mander Static Society vi. 158 The high, infertile plateau of the Bolivian puna. 1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 20/4 The true subject of the novel is the brutal, unrelenting landscape of the puna: the high tableland of north-west Argentina. 2. Altitude sickness, mountain sickness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > atmospheric pressure puna1835 mountain sickness1848 soroche1878 caisson disease1883 the bends1894 altitude sickness1901 caisson sickness1911 decompression sickness1941 ebullism1956 1835 C. Darwin Diary (1933) 292 The short breathing from the rarefied atmosphere is called by the Chilenos ‘Puna’. 1903 Longman's Mag. July 218 José..was suffering from puna. 1933 A. F. Tschiffely Tschiffely's Ride (1935) 43 My nose began to bleed profusely; I had ‘puna’. 1976 Lancet 27 Nov. 1177/1 In 1913 Ravenhill pointed out that in addition to this self-limiting form of acute mountain sickness (‘puna’, ‘soroche’) there were two other varieties. 1992 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 28 Nov. Workers at the mine have to contend with puna (altitude sickness) which led the company to offer a more generous shift pattern. Compounds puna wind n. a cold dry wind which blows from the Cordilleras across the puna. ΚΠ 1884 Science 14 Mar. 334/2 The effects produced are similar to those of the ‘Puna wind’ of Peru, and the ‘Hammattan’ of Africa. 1997 R. Kirk Monkey's Paw 9 What if I were taken into the glare of the headlights on the rocky road, with the fleeing hares and the prick of the puna wind, and made to kneel? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1604
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