An edition of Lenâpé-English dictionary (1888)

A Lenâpé-English dictionary.

From an anonymous ms. in the archives of the Moravian church at Bethlehem, Pa.

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An edition of Lenâpé-English dictionary (1888)

A Lenâpé-English dictionary.

From an anonymous ms. in the archives of the Moravian church at Bethlehem, Pa.

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Language
English
Pages
236

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Edition Notes

With portrait of D. Zeisberger

Zeisberger's Grammar of the language of the Lenni Lenâpé, ed. in the Transactions of the American philos. soc. 1827, and his English-German-Onondaga-Delaware dictionary, edited by Prof. E. N. Horsford under title "Zeisberger's Indian dictionary" [etc.] Cambridge, Mass., 1887, together with his printed "Delaware spelling book," Philadelphia, 1806, were the chief sources from which the later missionaries drew their knowledge of the Lenâpé dialect. cf. Pref

"Alphabetically arranged by Delaware words. The index is an alphabetic cross-reference list to the English words occurring in the dictionary."--Pilling, Bibl. of the Algonquian languages, p. 58-60, 111-112

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Philadelphia
Series
The Pennsylvania students' series, v. 1, 1889

The Physical Object

Pagination
4 p. l., vii, 9-236 p.
Number of pages
236

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL14626882M
Internet Archive
lenpenglishd00brin
LCCN
03032854

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1100711W

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