| 单词 |
Nicobarese |
| 释义 |
Nicobarese, n. and a.|nɪkəbəˈriːz|
[f. Nicobar (see below) + -ese.]
A. n.
a. The people of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
b. The Mon-Khmer language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people. Also Nicoˈbarian n. and a.
1790G. Hamilton in Asiatick Res. II. 344 The people of Carnicobar have a tradition among them, that several canoes came from Andaman..and that the crews..killed several of the Nicobarians. 1846Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XV. 368 The Nicobarian Pigs appear to have been derived from the Chinese domestic species. 1859Sel. Rec. Govt. India Home Dept. No. 25. 61 Their language bears no affinity to that of the Nicobarians. 1875F. A. de Roepstorff Vocab. Dial. Nicobar & Andaman Is. (ed. 2) 14 The Nicobarese have all they want, yet they like very much to barter with foreigners. 1884― Dict. Nancowry Dial. of Nicobarese Lang. p. xiii, Nicobarese is a wholly uninflective tongue. 1889E. H. Man (title) Dictionary of the central Nicobarese language. 1924G. Whitehead In Nicobar Is. ii. 47 The Nicobarese keep a great number of domestic pigs, which they feed on coco-nut. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama of Indo-European Lang. 229 Nicobarese..is spoken by 15,000 islanders. Ibid., The population of the Nicobars has been swollen in the last two decades by settlers from all parts of India, forming a polyglot element..about as numerous as the native Nicobarese. |
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