单词 | siouan |
释义 | Siouanadj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to a family of languages spoken by the Sioux and related peoples such as Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan, and Omaha; = Sioux adj. 2. Also: designating any or all of the peoples speaking such languages; of or relating to such peoples. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > of Sioux language family Sioux1795 Dakota1809 Siouan1882 Omaha1897 1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 829 The following is Mr. Dorsey's division of the Siouan linguistic stock:..Dhegiha... B. Kwapa-Dhegiha, includes Kwapas, Osages and Kansas. 1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 75 The Siouan group had its habitat on the prairies between the Mississippi and Missouri. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 367/2 Crows... A Siouan tribe forming part of the Hidatsa group. 1977 H. Landar in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. iii. 352 The signers were possessed of Siouan, not Algonquian, names. 2011 Anthropol. Linguistics 53 385 The Assiniboine speak Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family. B. n. 1. The Siouan family of languages; a language of this family; = Sioux n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Sioux language family Sioux1776 Siouan1885 the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Sioux language family > member of Sioux1703 Dakota1837 Ponca1883 Siouan1885 Omaha1887 1885 J. O. Dorsey in Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1883 App. 919 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (48th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 69) XXXIV In honor of Albert Gallatin, who was the first to classify the Indians of this family as the ‘Sioux’, the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution has adopted the new term, ‘Siouan’, as the name of this family. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. xiii. 362 Thus Siouan, Nahuatlan, Cariban, Guaranian are the collective names of families, of which Dakota, Aztec, Macusi and Tupi are respective sub-groups or branches. 1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Kootenayan, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonkian, are spoken also in the United States. 1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage iv. 112/1 Indians in Wisconsin..spoke Siouan. 2005 Anthropol. Linguistics 47 1 The conventional view has been that the languages of the Southeast..belonged to a relatively small number of language families, of which Muskogean and Siouan were the most widespread. 2. A member of the Siouan-speaking peoples; = Sioux n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Siouan Assiniboine1690 Missouri1698 Osage1698 Santee1698 Teton1698 Yankton1698 Sioux1703 Kansa1722 Otoe1760 Omaha1761 Maha1778 Big Belly1785 Mandan1790 Minnetaree1796 Crow1801 Dakota1804 Gros Ventre1804 Kaw1804 Miniconjou1804 Ponca1804 Absaroka1812 Oglala1825 Missourian1833 Lakota1846 Dakotan1871 Hidatsa1873 Siouan1885 1885 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1883–5 3 80 The Cherokees, Choctaws.., and Siouans, and probably many other tribes, are known to have built mounds for domiciliary and burial purposes. 1900 Knowledge 2 July 153/2 Among the other Atlantic stocks are..the Siouans, some of the most famous tribes of the latter being the Sioux or Dakotas, and the Crows. 1980 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 93 302 Further south the Algonkin tribes were in contact with Iroquoians and Siouans. 2004 P. B. Lerch Waccamaw Legacy iii. 31 The story of the Siouans and other coastal tribes was retold in the great Pageant of the Lower Cape Fear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1882 |
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