单词 | penutian |
释义 | Penutian[ puh-noo-tee-uhn, -shuhn ] / pəˈnu ti ən, -ʃən / nouna group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period. any of several other hypothesized genetic groupings of languages that include these languages and, in addition, otherwise unclassified languages of the Pacific Northwest, Columbia River plateau, Mexico, and Central America. adjectiveof or relating to Penutian. Origin of Penutian1913; pen + uti, schematized bases for “two” in Maidu-Wintu-Yokuts and Miwok-Costanoan, respectively + -an Words nearby Penutianpenult, penultimate, penumbra, penurious, penury, Penutian, Penza, Penzance, Penzias, peon, peonage Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for PenutianPenutian / (pɪˈnjuːtɪən, -ʃən) / nouna family of North American Indian languages of the Pacific coast a phylum of languages of North and South America, including Araucanian, Chinook, Mayan, and Sahaptin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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