Definitions for Yuman

Yuman Yu·man

Spelling: [yoo-muh n]
IPA: /ˈyu mən/

Yuman is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Yuman (amnuy).

Definitions for Yuman

noun

  1. a family of languages including the language shared by the Yuma and Mohave Indians and several other languages of the lower valley of the Colorado River.

adjective

  1. of or relating to Yuman.

Origin of Yuman

First recorded in 1890-95; Yum(a) + -an

Examples for Yuman

These are the vocabulary data: In all Yuman dialects, nume', or some obvious dialectic variant, means wildcat.

Farnham refers here to tribes of the Yuman stock; see our volume xviii, p. 131, note 65.

But it's time the gentry swells knowed as how we're Yuman bein's as well as theirselves.

There are now about 200 of these people, and they are of Yuman stock.

In the far west the Yuman family of languages belongs on both sides of the border.

Rogers' "Yuman Pottery Making" is a useful preliminary survey and stimulating.

Shortly after this a Yuman chief called Palma was conveyed to Mexico.

Magically obtaining things by reaching out for them is a frequent incident in Mohave and other Yuman tradition.

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