Lumbee

词形变化

Lumbees 复数 Lumbees

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.

name
  1. 1.

    The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.

词源

Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac (1895-1978, the twenty-seventh hereditary chief of the Piscataway) as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).

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