Catawba

See also: catawba

English

A Catawba (sense 1) potter

Etymology

From the noun catawba, as the tree was the people's totem.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈtɔː.bə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈtɔ.bə/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kəˈtɑ.bə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːbə
• Hyphenation: Ca‧taw‧ba

Noun

Catawba (plural Catawbas or Catawba)

2. A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.
   • 1970, Charles M. Hudson, The Catawba Nation:

     There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery [to another tribe] to trade for bows and arrows. This chief [of the other tribe] had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the brave went, and then she went to get it. She kept shooting it in the air until she caught up with him.

4. (plural "Catawbas") A red American dessert grape variety.
   • 1950, Peter John Valaer, Wines of the world:

     The basic material for sherry is a mixture or a blend of dry wines from Niagaras, Delawares, and Catawbas or other white juices, which are sweetened and fortified and then blended with California sherry.

Derived terms

• Catawba County

Translations

Translations

• Unami: Katapa

Proper noun

Map of the Catawba River (sense 2)

Catawba

2. The language of the Eastern Siouan family spoken in eastern United States.
4. A river in North Carolina and South Carolina, United States.
   • 1998, Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens:

     Cornwallis finally moved after Morgan's men. Left behind to cover the fords and delay the British, North Carolina general William Lee Davidson and a few men were killed as the British poured across Cowan's Ford. Once the British crossed the Catawba, the Americans had to get past another river, the Yadkin beyond Salisbury.

Synonyms

• Esaw
• Issa
• Iswä
• Iswa

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Catawba terms
• Ethnologue entry for Catawba, chc ⁠

Further reading

• Catawba people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Catawba language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Catawba (grape) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia