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单词 Paiute
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Definition of Paiute in English:

Paiute

nounPlural Paiutes ˈpʌɪuːtˈpī(y)o͞ot
  • 1A member of either of two culturally similar but geographically separate and linguistically distinct North American peoples, the Southern Paiute of the southwestern US and the Northern Paiute of Oregon and Nevada.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All are very old - many predate the arrival of Northern Paiutes here by thousands of years.
    • In 1878, the Bannocks and Paiutes of Idaho and eastern Oregon were defeated.
    • Ben Cartwright was a white man, but he had been kind to the Paiute.
    • The Winnemucca family consistently urged Paiutes toward accommodation of non-Indians and selective acculturation.
    • He wanted to make sure that the officer knew that, to the Paiutes, the skulls were more than merely missing evidence.
  • 2mass noun Either of the Uto-Aztecan languages of the Paiute, now with few speakers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Someone spoke in Paiute, and kept pushing on his side.
    • When she moved away, she missed her family, missed the open space, missed hearing Paiute - ‘our language,’ she says.
    • The Bannock people speak a dialect of Northern Paiute.
    • To some people the sounds of Northern Paiute, for example, seem loud and very masculine, and perhaps monotonous.
adjective ˈpʌɪuːtˈpī(y)o͞ot
  • Relating to the Paiute or their languages.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘This tragedy was not about race,’ Stafford said, ‘but someone's hoping to set off a race war by twisting things to turn people against the Paiute community.’
    • Adam recognized the word as the Paiute term for medicine man, or healer.
    • Many other Paiute groups have actively taken steps to preserve their language.
    • I have some herb medicine your father's Paiute friends gave him.
    • He laid the two Paiute children to rest, in a plastic garbage sack, next to the strawberry patch.
    • He was dressed in traditional Paiute clothing, complete with moccasins, and his hair was kept back from his forehead with a leather thong.
    • And who knows how many words of Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, or Paiute origin have become part of the Navajo language?
    • With skulls and bones now reunited, the ceremony will happen on an unmarked section of Paiute land in Nevada, to guard against further looting.

Origin

From Spanish Payuchi, Payuta, influenced by Ute.

 
 

Definition of Paiute in US English:

Paiute

nounˈpī(y)o͞ot
  • 1A member of either of two culturally similar but geographically separate and linguistically distinct North American peoples, the Southern Paiute of the southwestern US and the Northern Paiute of Oregon and Nevada.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1878, the Bannocks and Paiutes of Idaho and eastern Oregon were defeated.
    • Ben Cartwright was a white man, but he had been kind to the Paiute.
    • All are very old - many predate the arrival of Northern Paiutes here by thousands of years.
    • The Winnemucca family consistently urged Paiutes toward accommodation of non-Indians and selective acculturation.
    • He wanted to make sure that the officer knew that, to the Paiutes, the skulls were more than merely missing evidence.
  • 2Either of the Uto-Aztecan languages of the Paiute.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When she moved away, she missed her family, missed the open space, missed hearing Paiute - ‘our language,’ she says.
    • The Bannock people speak a dialect of Northern Paiute.
    • Someone spoke in Paiute, and kept pushing on his side.
    • To some people the sounds of Northern Paiute, for example, seem loud and very masculine, and perhaps monotonous.
adjectiveˈpī(y)o͞ot
  • Relating to the Paiute or their languages.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And who knows how many words of Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, or Paiute origin have become part of the Navajo language?
    • Adam recognized the word as the Paiute term for medicine man, or healer.
    • He was dressed in traditional Paiute clothing, complete with moccasins, and his hair was kept back from his forehead with a leather thong.
    • Many other Paiute groups have actively taken steps to preserve their language.
    • ‘This tragedy was not about race,’ Stafford said, ‘but someone's hoping to set off a race war by twisting things to turn people against the Paiute community.’
    • I have some herb medicine your father's Paiute friends gave him.
    • With skulls and bones now reunited, the ceremony will happen on an unmarked section of Paiute land in Nevada, to guard against further looting.
    • He laid the two Paiute children to rest, in a plastic garbage sack, next to the strawberry patch.

Origin

From Spanish Payuchi, Payuta, influenced by Ute.

 
 
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