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Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias occidentales o América.
Madrid: Imprenta de Benito Cano, 1786
Physical Description: 5 v. v.5: [2] p.l., 461, 7, 186 p. ; 21.5 cm. (4to)
Call number: B786/ A351d
Accession number: 04805
Notes: "Vocabulario de las voces provinciales de la América usadas en el diccionario geografico-historico de ella; y de los nombres propios de plantes, aves y animales" (v.5, p. 1-186, 4th count) mixes several hundred indigenous and European terms used for flora, fauna, and other local phenomena in the regions covered in the 5-volume work as a whole. “Unas que aunque originarias de España, y especialmente de Andalucía, han degenerado allí por la corrupcion que ha introducido la mezcla de los idiomas de los Indios; y otras tomadas de estos, y mal pronunciadas por los Españoles” (p. [1], 4th count). Most of the terms are accompanied by extensive descriptive data.
A list of vocabulary appears in Spanish and its Knisteneaux [i.e. Cree] translation in the entry for "Rocky Mountains" in v. 4; this vocabulary list does appear in the original edition printed in Madrid from 1786-1789.
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Languages: Cree
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Caribbean Islands / North America / Spanish America
