| 单词 | Kissi |
| 释义 | Kissi, n. and a.|ˈkɪsɪ| [Native name.] A. n. An agricultural people inhabiting the regions of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia near the headwaters of the Niger; one of this people; also, their language. B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Kissi.
1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 Felup Group,..Kissi. 1916[see Kono2]. 1949E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) v. 107 In Kissi, a language of French Guinea,..the distinction between monosyllabic and polysyllabic verbs is pertinent. 1957M. Banton W. Afr. City ii. 36 The Army had..recruited a high proportion of its soldiers among the Koranko, Kono, and Kissi tribes in the farthest corners of the Protectorate. Ibid. vii. 122 The Kissi, who speak a separate language similar to that of the Bulom but now much influenced by Mandinka, live far inland in the high ground where the French, British, and Liberian frontiers meet. 1970Western Folklore XXIX. 241 Among some of the Liberian Kissi of the frontier regions the musical bow accompanies tribal initiation rites in the forest, being utilized in place of the wooden drum. |
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