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A Lenâpé-English dictionary, From an anonymous ms. in the archives of the Moravian church at Bethlehem, Pa. / ed., with additions, by Daniel G. Brinton ... and Rev. Albert Seqaqkind Anthony.
Penn Museum Library - Brinton Collection 497.11 DB77
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, editor.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania students' series ; v. 1, 1889.
- Language:
- Delaware
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delaware language--Dictionaries--English.
- Delaware language.
- English language--Delaware--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- Delaware.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 4 preliminary leaves, vii, 9-236 pages : frontispiece (portrait). ; 23 x 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1888.
- 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. Horsgord under title "Zeisberger's Indian dictionary" [etc.] Cambridge, Mass., 1887, together with his printed "Delaware spelling book," Philadelphia, 1806, were the chief sources form which the later missionaries drew their knowledge of the Lenâpé dialect. cf. Pref.
- "Alphabetically arranged by the 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.
- OCLC:
- 17237136
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