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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Amerind

1899, coined by Maj. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) at the Bureau of American Ethnology, where he was director, from American + Indian.

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Amerind may refer to:

  • Amerind peoples, also Amerindians, the indigenous peoples of the Americas
  • Amerind languages, a putative language family

Usage examples of "amerind".

The blade picked up speed as the Amerind samurai launched himself into his kata.

His coppery skin and high cheekbones bespoke the Amerind heritage he was likewise heir to, and the sea breezes lifted his long black hair back from his well-muscled shoulders.

His coppery skin, high cheekbones, and long black hair bespoke some Amerind blood, though his white shirt and khaki canvas slacks were the latest in corp casual.

Had he been an elf or ork or Amerind, his own folk might have taken an interest in him.

Tall, even for an elf, he looked human because of his extraordinary build and the high cheekbones his Amerind blood granted him.

He tended to smile, while his companion was stoic of expression in keeping with his Amerind tradition.

The buckskin dress on the nubile young Amerind girl was quickly whipped into a thousand rotted tatters.

First of all, I had a Native American spirit working her mojo in the mix, which gave me an advantage over all those Amerind skin-walkers or such who had to figure it out on their own and with their own juice.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

He had a prominent brow, and his chalky-white skin nearly glowed in the intense sunshine, leading me to conclude he was not of Amerind descent.

Spanish domination, this religious organization supported the Spanish in their disastrous rule of the predominantly Amerind population.

It shone on the high cheekbones that hinted at Amerind heritage, on the delicate features almost eclipsed by those protruding structures.

He also had a look about him one saw only in this countrya curious mixture of nationalities, part Amerind, part European, part black, that had merged over the past four centuries into a unique and distinct new race, the Atlantic Brazilian.

Besides that, a lot of colonial sorcerers picked up on their lore, so the American version of sorcery has a lot of commonalities with Amerind magic.

So Splendid, an amateur archaeologist, had expected, before being selected for this experimental mer-colony, to specialize in one of the pre-Columbian American Indian cultures and to trace the connections between it and the prehistoric Mongolian cultures from which the Amerinds derived.