| 单词 |
Dogrib |
| 释义 |
Dogrib, n. (and a.)|ˈdɒgrɪb|
Also Dog-rib, Dog-Rib.
[tr. Cree atimospikay, perh. ult. tr. Dogrib tlinchon, from a legend that the peoples are descended from a dog, but the names have quite difference ranges of application.]
a. A member of a group of Athabascan peoples of north-western Canada, inhabiting mainly the area between the Great Bear and the Great Slave lakes. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1689E. Kelsey Jrnl. 17 June in Kelsey Papers (1929) 25 Northern Indians Inhabiting to y⊇ Northward of Churchill river & also y⊇ dogside Nation. 1744A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 19 This River comes from a country he calls Platscotez de Chiens, who make war against the Savannah Indians.] 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 827/2 Beavers, Dog-ribs, Strongbows, [etc.]. 1926Douglas & Wallace tr. Jérémie's Twenty Years York Factory 1694–1714 20 Seal river extends up to the country of a nation called Dogribs who make war on our Maskegons. 1957Encycl. Brit. IV. 700/2 The Mackenzie valley..the home of the Hares, the Dog-Ribs, the Caribou-Eaters, [etc.]. 1967D. Jeness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) 392 At the end of the eighteenth century a western group of Dogrib Indians seems to have shared with the Slave the country between lac la Martre and the Mackenzie river. 1979J. Halifax Shamanic Voices (1980) v. 148 The old and weathered Dogrib Indian shaman Adamie.
b. An Athabascan language of the Na-Dene language family, spoken by the Dogrib peoples.
1914Summary Rep. Anthropol. Div. Geol. Survey Canada 1913 376 Slavey and Dogrib are closely related lexically. 1933L. Bloomfield Language 72 The Athabascan family covers all but the coastal fringe of northwestern Canada (Chipewyan, Beaver, Dogrib, Sarsi, etc.). 1965Language XLI. 171 The study of classificatory verbs in Navaho, Chipewyan, Dogrib, [etc.]. 1981N.Y. Times 1 Feb. 14/1 Herb Zimmerman is translating the Bible into an Indian language, Dogrib. |
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