单词 | quapaw |
释义 | Quapawn.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting the region around the mouth of the Arkansas River and now mostly settled in north-eastern Oklahoma. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > others Quapaw1698 Padouca1746 Sarcee1801 Comanche1806 Tonkawa1806 Wichita1841 1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. ii. ix. 45 They visited three of those Villages, the Torimans, the Dogingas, and the Kappas [Fr. les Kappa]. 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 11 Ten Leagues higher is a Small River named Cappa, and upon it a People of the same Name. 1772 N. D. Mereness in Trav. Amer. Colonies 520 The Quarpas..(a small nation on the west side of Mississippi). 1821 T. Nuttall Trav. Arkansa Terr. 81 Father Charlevoix relates..stopping..at a village of Ouyapes (or Wyapes), the same with the Quapaws (or, as they call themselves, O-guah-pas). 1893 S. R. Riggs Dakota Gramm. Texts & Ethnography ii. ii. 193 (note) According to Omaha tradition, the Ree and Skidi (or Pawnee Loups) were allies of the Winnebago and the ancestors of the Omaha,..Kwapa, Iowa, etc. 1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 163 There was also a village of two hundred and fifty Quapaw. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. ii. 41 He had his heart set on marrying a rich Indian—one of the wealthy oil or mineral-rich Quapaws or Osage they sometimes saw. 2. The Siouan language of the Quapaw, which belongs to the Dhegiha subgroup.This language has had no fluent native speakers since the 1970s. ΚΠ 1830 J. Tanner Narr. Captivity ii. 328 [Comparison of numerals in several American dialects.] 22. Quawpaw. 1914 Amer. Anthropologist 16 590 In addition to these two large groups [of Siouan languages]..are two isolated dialects... They may be classified as follows:..B. Dhegiha:..(3) Quapaw. 1976 W. L. Chafe in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. 541 Dialects still spoken in Oklahoma include Ponca, Osage, Kansa.., and Quapaw (Arkansas)... Kansa and Quapaw are the closest to extinction, if they are still spoken at all. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 103/2 Archaeologically, Quapaw appears to belong with Biloxi and Ofo..but linguistically it clearly belongs in the Dhegiha subgroup. B. adj. Of or designating the Quapaw or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > others Padouca1760 Quapaw1770 black-footed1772 Sarcee1790 Ozark1816 Comanche1819 Tonkawa1870 earth lodge1885 Skidi1891 1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 40 The Arcansas or Quapas Indians live three leagues above the fort, on the side of the river. 1794 in C. J. Kappler Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties (1904) 160 No citizen of the United States..shall be permitted to settle on any of the lands allotted to..the said Quapaw tribe or nation. 1854 E. E. Hale Kanzas & Nebraska 137 Of the Quapaw children, eighteen attend at the male department. 1885 J. O. Dorsey Compar. Phonol. Four Siouan Langs. 2 He gained over 1,000 Kwapa words. 1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee xv. 357 At last, on July 9, after a severe drenching in a thunderstorm, they reached the Quapaw reservation, their new home. 1998 D. Upton Archit. in U.S. vi. 260 A monument donated by..two female Quapaw alumnae who had made fortunes in the Oklahoma oil boom. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1698 |
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