Definition of Diegueno

1. Noun. A member of a North American Indian people of southern California.

Generic synonyms: Hoka, Hokan

2. Noun. The Yuman language spoken by the Diegueno.
Generic synonyms: Yuman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diegueno

Diderotian
Didion
Dido
Didonia
Didonian
Didonias
Didrikson
Didymoteicho
Diedre
Dieffenbach's method
Dieffenbachia
Dieffenbachia sequine
Diego
Diego Rivera
Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
Diegueno (current term)
Diels-Alder reaction
Diels-Alder reactions
Diels hydrocarbon
Dien Bien Phu
Dientamoeba fragilis
Dieppe
Dieri
Diervilla
Diervilla lonicera
Diervilla sessilifolia
Dies Irae
Dieterle's stain
Dietl
Dietl's crisis

Literary usage of Diegueno

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"LANGDON, MARGARET H. Report on comparative study of Diegueno dialects ... Includes: list of English and Spanish words to be obtained in Diegueno; ..."

2. A Mission Record of the California Indians: From a Manuscript in the by Alfred Louis Kroeber, José Francisco de Paula Señán, Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910)
"In the southern Diegueno region, however, the cultus began to be ... The rituals themselves offer internal evidence of a late adoption by the Diegueno. ..."

3. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"A small Diegueno band on or near Capitán Grande res., at least 9 m. from San Diego, Cal.; pop. 80 in 1883. Pa. fame. ..."

4. Under the Sky in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1913)
"Mesa Grande is Diegueno country and like a foreign land to Luiseno San Ygnacio, and Maria Juana and her mama would laugh heartily when our host would give ..."

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