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单词 chinookan
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Chinookan in American English

(ʃɪˈnukən, -ˈnuːkən, tʃɪ-)
noun
1. 
a language family comprising only Lower Chinook and Upper Chinook
adjective
2. 
of or pertaining to the Chinooks or to Chinookan
Word origin
[1885–90; chinook + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: reactor, roller coaster, toner, twofer, zoom-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)
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