单词 | tuscarora |
释义 | Tuscaroran. An Iroquoian people, originally inhabiting Carolina, which, after moving to upper New York State, joined the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, commonly called the Five Nations (thereafter Six Nations), in 1722; a member of this people; their language. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Iroquois peoples > five or six nations > members of Maqua1616 Mohawk1634 Seneca1664 Oneida1666 Onondaga1677 Tuscarora1713 Cayuga1744 the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages Mohawk1754 Cherokee1761 Huron1776 Nottoway1830 Wyandot1837 Onondaga1887 Cayuga1933 Oneida1933 Tuscarora1933 1650 E. Bland Jrnl. 28 Aug. in Discov. New Brit. (1651) 3 An Englishman, a Cockarous hard by Captaine Floods, gave this Indian Bells..to lay downe to the Tuskarood King. 1713 in N. Carolina Colonial Rec. (1886) II. 2 An order from ye Government of New Yorke to Caution ye Tuscaroras against going to warr with ye English here. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 390 The Monacans or Tuscaroras..were taken into the confederacy.., making the sixth [nation]. 1878 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 May 537/2 He wants one of my improved phonographs to preserve the accents of the..Tuscaroras, who are dying out. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 842 The Tuscarora..possessed in early times the ‘country lying between the sea shores and the mountains, which divide the Atlantic States’. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers ix. 137 All this land..is Sioux country... But cheek by jowl is a long strip held by the Tuscaroras. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Iroquoian family was spoken in a district surrounded by Algonquian; it includes..the languages of the Iroquois type (Mohawk, Oneida,..Tuscarora). 1976 W. L. Chafe in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. 532 The Northern Iroquoian languages which are still spoken are six in number. They include the very closely related languages of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois..plus Tuscarora, now the Sixth Nation, a language somewhat more divergent. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 654 The Tuscarora Indian Reservation is nearby. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1650 |
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