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单词 quichean
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Quicheanadj.n.

Brit. /kiːˈtʃeɪən/, U.S. /ˌkiˈtʃeɪən/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Quiché n.1, -an suffix.
Etymology: < Quiché n.1 + -an suffix.
A. adj.
1. Of or designating the Quiché people.
ΚΠ
1862 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 4 Jan. It was brought by Indians from the ancient residence of the Quichean Kings.
1868 A. Helps Spanish Conquest in Amer. IV. xx. iii. 390 In the Quichean account of the creation of the world,..four men are created, and afterward four wives are given to them.
1972 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 52 App. 6 The Quichean people established an independent state in the Guatemalan highlands.
2001 D. B. Bray in Endangered Peoples Lat. Amer. i. 3 In Guatemala, they include the Quichean peoples of the eastern and central highlands.
2. Of or relating to Quiché or the Mayan language subgroup to which it belongs.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Penutian > of specific Penutian languages
Creek1725
Choctaw1796
Tsimshian1836
Muskogee1868
Tzeltal1868
Yuki1875
Klamath1881
Takelma1882
Zoque1891
Zoque–Mixe1893
Modoc1907
Yawelmani1907
Sahaptin1921
Totonacan1933
Tzotzil1939
Molale1966
Quichean1968
Mixean1977
1968 Language 44 191 It is..in Quiché and its near relatives of the ‘Quichean’ group that we have the largest accumulation of other written documents.
1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 218 Pinkerton analyses the phonetic character of glottalized stops in Quichean languages.
2003 D. Tedlock tr. R. Achi Mayan Drama War & Sacrifice ii. ii. 181 Today the people in most districts of Chajul speak Ixil, a language that belongs to a separate branch of the Mayan family from that of Quichean languages.
B. n.
The subgroup of the Mayan language family to which Quiché belongs.
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1903 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 35 206 His classification..assumes fifteen [linguistic] families: 1. Yuman. 2. Shoshonean... 15. Maya-Quichean.]
1956 N. A. McQuown in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 22 195/2 It differs from Kroeber..in suggesting a closer link between Quichean and Kekchian than between Quichean and Mamean.
1992 B. Tedlock Time & Highland Maya ii. 13 Quiché..is a Mayan language of the subgroup known as Quichean.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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