William Strachey, The History of Travel into Virginia Britannia (1612)
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Date
1612
Author
William Strachey Note: 14/10/2005
Lexicon title
A Dictionarie of the Indian Language for the better enabling of such who shalbe thither ymployed
Book title
The History of Travel into Virginia Britannia
Transcription source
British Library Sloane MS 1622
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Algonkian
- travel
Summary
The earliest full dictionary of Algonquin
Language
headwords: Algonquin / English
explanations: English / Algonquin
explanations: English / Algonquin
explanations: English / Algonquin
explanations: English / Algonquin
Incipit
Ahone God
Extent
99r-105r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 65
number: 65
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 972
sample: a woolf -- Naantam
number: 972
sample: a woolf -- Naantam
Alston
1962: 7
Other editions
"A short Dictionary, added vnto the former Discourses of the Indian Language, vsed within the Chessiopiock Bay; more perticulerly about the Tract, and amongst the Inhabitaunts of the first Riuer, called by them Powhaton, and by vs, the Kings-Riuer, wherin as yet our Townes, and Fortes, ar seated. By which, such who shall be Imployed thether may know the readyer how to confer, and how to truck and Trade, with the People." Bodleian Ashmole MS 1758, fols. 94v-102r. Princeton University MS.
Modern editions
Major, R. H., ed. The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia by W. Strachey. Hakluyt Society Publications 6. n.p.: n.p., 1849. view record
Strachey, William. The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612). Eds. Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, CIII. London: n.p., 1953. view record
Harrington, John P. "The Original Strachey Vocabulary of the Virginia Indian Language." Anthropological Papers, nos. 46. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 157 (1955): 189-202. view record
Strachey, William. The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612). Eds. Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, CIII. London: n.p., 1953. view record
Harrington, John P. "The Original Strachey Vocabulary of the Virginia Indian Language." Anthropological Papers, nos. 46. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 157 (1955): 189-202. view record
Criticisms
Salmon, Vivian. "Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 19.1 (1992): 25-56. 41. view record
