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Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian Language.
Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed by E.W. Metcalf and Company, 1830
Physical Description: p. [147]-257 ; 26 cm.
Call number: F61/ M38/ s er. 3/ v.2 / cop.2
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Notes: Vocabulary in Massachusett provides parallel lists of English and Massachuset terms, organized in sections on arts, fauna and flora, human faculties, kinship terms, temporal notions, household terms, etc. Separate lists of adjectives and verbs are listed in English alphabetical order with parallel Massachuset; further parallel lists by parts of speech include articles, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions. Contains in addition to vocabulary: excerpts from John Eliot’s Indian Bible (1680 edition) and John Eliot’s Indian Primer (p. 248); the Creed (p. 225) and the Ten Commandments (p. 248-249); and a 1710 sermon by Cotton transcribed from the original manuscript (p. 249-257). “Advertisement”, p. [147]-148 (signed J.D., p. 148), states: “The following Vocabulary of the Indian Language, in the Natick or Massachusetts dialect, is faithfully copied from a manuscript complied by the Hon. Josiah Cotton, a respectable inhabitant of Plymouth, who died in 1756, aged 77,” and includes a brief life of the author. Issued in: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, v.2, p. [147]-257. Edited by John Pickering. (“Notice of the manuscript”, p. 148-151, signed J.P.)
Languages: Massachuset
Genre: Bible selections / Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: North America
