wendigo

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ/    美 /ˈwɛndiɡoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.
    — Through the pine woods of Keewaydin, / Over the snows of Shebandowan, / The Wendigo roams in the winter's frost / And pursues to destruction the hunter. / Yet no man can meet with the Wendigo, / No man can face him or see him; / Only his track in the snow is seen, / And lost is the hunter that sees it. […] The heart that ne'er quailed on the war-path / Turns to stone at the name of the Wendigo.
  2. Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).

词形变化

wendigo plural wendigos plural wendigoes plural weendigo alternative wiindigoo alternative windago alternative windiga alternative windigo alternative witigo alternative wihtikow alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
wendigo psychosis
相关词
skinwalker

词源

Borrowed from Ojibwe wiindigoo, from Proto-Algonquian *wi·nteko·wa (“owl; malevolent spirit, cannibalistic monster”). Compare Plains Cree wîhtikow, ᐃᐧᐦᑎᑯᐤ (“greedy person; cannibal; giant man-eating monster”).
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