| 单词 |
Songish |
| 释义 |
Songish, n.|sɒŋˈgiːʃ|
Also Songeesh, Songhees, 9 Songhies, Songhish.
[Native name.]
An American Indian people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia; the language of this people, a dialect of Straits Salish. Also attrib.
1860[see klooch]. 1862R. C. Mayne Four Years in Brit. Columbia & Vancouver Island ii. 30 The road ascends a little hill, on the summit of which lies the Indian village of the Songhies. Ibid., This village of the Songhies presents one of the most squalid pictures of dirt and misery it is possible to conceive. 1865M. Macfie Vancouver Island & Brit. Columbia xvi. 430 The Songhish tribe, resident near Victoria, hold a general merry-making annually in..October. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races of Pacific States III. xii. 522 The Songhies said the hunter was transformed into a deer. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 80/1 Salishan, the name of a linguistic family of North American Indian tribes, the more important of which [include] the Salish.., Skokomish, Songeesh, Spokan and Tulalip. 1911[see potlatch v.]. 1973L. C. Thompson in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics X. 1010 The rest of the dialects extend from Lummi..across to Songish (Lkungen) around modern Victoria, on Vancouver Island, and on northward to include Saanich. |
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