List Books » A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee: With Notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole Dialects of Creek (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
Authors: Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin
ISBN-13: 9780803232075, ISBN-10: 0803232071
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Date Published: June 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jack B. Martin is an associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary and a specialist in southeastern Native languages. Margaret McKane Mauldin is an instructor of Creek at the University of Oklahoma.
The result of ten years of research, this dictionary contains 7,000 Creek-English entries, 4,000 English-Creek entries, and 400 Creek place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma. The volume also includes illustrations, a map, antonyms, dialects, and stylistic information. Entries are given in both traditional Creek spelling and a modern phonemic transcription. Martin is associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary, and Mauldin is instructor of Creek at the University of Oklahoma. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
"This book represents what may be the optimal collaboration for work on Creek, between a linguist . . . and a native speaker. . . . The compilers of this dictionary have done a splendid job, providing maps, pictures, and illustrations that enhance the pleasure of consulting it."
List of Illustrations | vi | |
Contributors | vii | |
Preface | viii | |
Acknowledgments | ix | |
Abbreviations and Symbols | x | |
Key to Dictionary Entries | xi | |
Introduction | xiii | |
Este Maskoke em Opunvkv | xiii | |
Creek Dialects | xvi | |
Creek Spelling | xvii | |
Information in Creek-English Entries | xxiii | |
Information in English-Creek Entries | xxx | |
Sources | xxx | |
Part 1 | Creek-English | 1 |
Part 2 | Topical Information | 155 |
Months | 157 | |
Days of the Week | 157 | |
Seasons | 157 | |
Common Expressions | 157 | |
Common Clans | 158 | |
Traditional Dances | 158 | |
Books of the New Testament | 159 | |
Numbers | 160 | |
Ordinal Numbers | 161 | |
Once, Twice, etc. | 161 | |
Age | 161 | |
Chiefs and Principal Chiefs of the Creek Nation | 162 | |
Principal Chiefs, Governors, and Chairmen of the Seminole Nation | 162 | |
Other Famous Figures | 163 | |
Part 3 | Place-Names | 165 |
Creek Place-Names and Groups | 167 | |
English Place-Names of Creek Origin | 171 | |
Part 4 | English-Creek | 185 |
Appendix | 352 | |
Common Affixes appearing in Entries | 352 | |
Illustrations | 354 |