Amerind

a. 美洲印第安人的

发音

US /ˈæməɹənd/

词形变化

Amerinds 复数 Amerinds

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An American Indian.

    The cultural hiatus associated with the Pine Pollen Zone suggests that Amerinds may have avoided the area.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to a hypothetical, largely discredited higher-level language family including all of the indigenous languages of the Americas, excluding those that belong to Eskimo-Aleut or Na-Dene.

    语言学

词汇关系

词源

Blend of American + Indian or possibly blend of American + indigenous. First appears c. 1899 in the publication American Anthropologist.

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