Gros Ventreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French gros ventre (“big belly”).

名詞

Gros Ventre (plural Gros Ventres or Gros Ventre)

1. A member of a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in north central Montana.

   Synonyms: A'aninin, Aaniiih, Aaniinen, Atsina, White Clay

Proerp noun

Gros Ventre

1. Their language, an Algonquian language.

   Synonyms: Aaniiih, Atsina, White Clay

   • 1992, Allan R. Taylor, “Problems in obsolescence research”, in Nancy C. Dorian, editors, Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death, Cambridge University Press, page 171:

     Persons who have some knowledge of the language often talk about the language with each other; usually the conversation concerns how some particular thing was called in Gros Ventre, or how one would translate some English concept into Gros Ventre.