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Date
15940 15950
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
Aroaca, Sermo Indianus; Places and people of the mayne; certaine wordes of the language of Trinidad
Book title
The Voyage of Robert Dudley
Transcription source
Dudley, Sir Robert. 1899. The Voyage of Robert Dudley, afterward Styled earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland, to the West Indies, 1594-1595. Narrated by Capt. Wyatt, by himself, and by Abram Kendall, Master. Ed. George F. Warner. London: Hakluyt Society. From British Library Sloane MS 358.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Other
Subject area
travel
Summary
Three glossaries by Sir Robert Dudley, the first being for Arawack (Guinea) and Latin, with several English words; the second titled "Places and people of the mayne," being for Arawack and English; and the third being Trinidadian and English and introduced, "Here follow certaine wordes of the language of Trinidad which I observed at my being there" (Warner 1899: 65; 66; 78-79).
Language
headwords: Arawack
explanations: Latin / English
explanations: Latin / English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: (1) Arkehano, forceps. (2) Caribia be also man-eaters. (3) "Arguecona, a paire of cizzers."