DCHP-3

Indianize

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†v.

cause (someone) to become like an Indian in manner, dress, outlook, etc.

Quotations

1849
When [the children] were recovered, they were quite Indianized, and one of them having children, would not stay with their friends, but preferred the woods, the blanket, and mocassins to civilized habits.
1923
He found something vaguely fortifying in the thought of how such exposure had already partly Indianized her. . . .
2v.

adopt (words) into an Indian language in such a way that they follow the phonological and morphological patterns of that language.

Quotations

1909
Various words in the Algonquin vocabulary are but the early French words Indianized, and this name of Lake Simcoe is so suspiciously like the French "chien" for "dog" as to suggest some connection with it.