Illinese

From French Illinois.

• Rhymes: -iːz

Illinese (plural Illinese)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Illinois (“member of the Illinois (Algonquian people)”)
   • 1875, Andrew W. Young, History of Chautauqua County, New York, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, Buffalo, page 34; translation of Baron of La Hontan, Voyages, (Please provide a date or year):

     The banks of this lake [Erie] are frequented by none but warriors, whether the Iroquois, the Illinese, the Oumiamies, etc.; and it is very dangerous to stop there.

   • 1880, J. A. van Fleet, Old and New Mackinac, Grand Rapids, page 26:

     The Coureurs des Bois have but a very small settlement here; though at the same time it is not inconsiderable, as being the staple of all goods that they truck with the south and the west savages; for they can not avoid passing this way, when they go to the seats of the Illinese and the Oumamis, or to the Bay des Puans, and to the river of Mississippi.

   • 1884, Henry R. Schoolcraft, edited by Francis S. Drake, The Indian Tribes of the United States, volume 1, Philadelphia, page 313:

     Of the several bands of the Illinese, who dwelt around the head of the lake and extended along the banks of the Illinois River, the country has long been destitute of a trace, except in those works of defence of a nomadic and predatory people which are still observed in tumuli, ditches, fortified cliffs, and inaccessible defiles which they were expert to occupy.

Illinese (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Illinois (“of or relating to the Illinois (Algonquian people)”)
   • 1880, J. A. van Fleet, Old and New Mackinac, Grand Rapids, pages 25–26; translation of Baron of La Hontan, Voyages, (Please provide a date or year):

     It is not above half a league distant from the Illinese Lake, [Lake Michigan] an account of which, and, indeed, of all the other lakes, you may expect elsewhere.

   • 1884, Henry R. Schoolcraft, edited by Francis S. Drake, The Indian Tribes of the United States, volume 1, Philadelphia, page 115:

     These “Illinese” tribes were of the generic stock of the Algonkins, […]

   • 1905, Baron of La Hontan, New Voyages to North-America‎^[1], volume 2, page 465:

     […] the Illinese Country, and near the Missisipi^[sic], the Venereal Distemper is very common.

• Iroquese

From French Illinois.

• Rhymes: -eːzə

Illinese m (weak, genitive Illinesen, plural Illinesen, feminine Illinesin)

1. Illinois, Illinese (member of the Illinois (Algonquian people))
   • 1829, Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der Thiere die in der Arzneimittellehre in Betracht kommen‎^[2], volume 1, page 15:

     Bei den Illinesen sollen sie strohgelb seyn. Du Pratz fand in Louisiana eine ganze Colonie aschgrauer.

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   • 1878, Die Culturländer des alten America, page 862:

     […] die Illinesen, die Algonquinen, die Miamier u.s.w. […]

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   • 1893, Die Réfugiés, page 17:

     Marquette ist den Fluß des Westens hinabgezogen und predigt den Illinesen, und die Jesuiten haben das Evangelium sogar bis zu den Kriegern des Langen Hauses in ihre Wigwams zu Onondaga getragen.

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• Irokese

From French Illinois.

• IPA^(key): /il.liˈne.ze/
• Rhymes: -eze
• Hyphenation: Il‧li‧né‧se

Illinese m

1. (obsolete) Illinois (a state of the United States, named for the people)

   Synonym: Illinois

   • 1873, Il giro del mondo in ottanta giorni, page 211:

     Smyth ricomparve nell’Illinese, e fondò nel 1839, sulle sponde del Mississipi, Nauvoo-la-Bella, […]

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   • 1877, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America, page 187:

     Scelse l’Illinese, dove il clima dolcissimo e il fertile suolo che mancava di braccia di braccia parevano invitare gli uomini di buona volontà […]

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   • 1894, La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale, page 190:

     Nel 1818 quando l’Illinese si costituì a Stato ed entrò nell’Unione, […]

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