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Natuurlyke en zedelyke historie van d'eylanden de Voor-Eylanden van Amerika ... Met eenen Caraïbaanschen woorden-schat.
Rotterdam: Arnout Leers, 1662
Physical Description: [40], 475, [13] p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: E662/ R674n
Accession number: 0770
Notes: Includes "Caraïbaansch woorden-boek" by Raymond Breton (p. 464-475), listing several hundred Dutch terms with Carib equivalents, grouped in ten thematic categories: De delen van het menschelijk lichaam; Bloed vriendschap en aan-huwelijking; Staten en hoedanigheden; Daden en tochten; Huyshouding en handel; Cieraden en wapenen; Land, water en lucht-gedierte; Boom en planten; Hooftstoffelijken en onbesielde dingen; Geestelijke of Gods-dienstige dingen. Book II, chapter 10 consists of “Aanmerkingen op de tale der CaraÏbanen” (p. 359-366), mainly addressing vocabulary (glosses in French with few Carib terms), with some notes on pronunciation, intonation, grammar, and registers of speech. Book II, chapter 8, article IV, “Van den oorspronk der Apalachiten, en van hare tale” (p. 321-322), differs in content and placement from remarks on Apalachee found in the 1658 French edition.
A translation of author's Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de L'Amérique, first published, Rotterdam, 1658. Has been attributed to Louis de Poincy and to César de Rochefort; cf. Echeverria & Wilkie.
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Languages: Apalachee / Carib
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Caribbean Islands
