A member of a Pueblo people inhabiting the valley of the Zuñi, New Mexico. Also Zuni Indian.
1834
The Moqui (pronounced Mokee,) and the Suni (Sunee) live near the Nabajo.
A. Pike, Prose Sketches & Poems 200
1853
The cornfields of the Zuni Indians extend..for several miles.
L. Sitgreaves, Report of Expedition Zuñi & Colorado Rivers 5
1883
Zūni food prepared in Zūni fashion.
Century Magazinevol. 25 201
1883
The domestic life of the Zūnis.
Century Magazinevol. 25 202/1
1898
In the Zuñi hymn we have the myth of the marriage of Heaven and Earth.
A. Lang, Making of Religion xiv. 275
1910
Fray Martin de Arvide..was killed by 5 Zuñi.
F. W. Hodge, Handbook of American Indiansvol. II. 1017/1
1929
Among these Pueblo tribes we find..the Zuñi, who called themselves Ashiwi, Zuñi being a Spanish adaptation of Sunyitsi, the Keresan name for this tribe.
American Speechvol. 5 115
1937
Among the Zuñi Indians..individuals are not led into the kind of temptation which invites the men of our civilization to work for fame, wealth, social position or power.
A. Huxley, Ends & Means iii. 20
1960
The Zuni Indians played another game on the roof-tops called Kolowis Awithlaknannai.
R. C. Bell, Board & Table Games ii. 49
1969
Marvellous chokers, from the Zuni of the southwest.
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Zuñi typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
Zuñi is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of Zuñi, n., 1860–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
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For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
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