A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee

by Martin, Jack B.

• ISBN13: 9780803283022
• ISBN10: 0803283024
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

The result of more than ten years of research, A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee draws on the expertise of a linguist and a native Creek speaker to yield the first modern dictionary of the Creek language of the southeastern United States. The dictionary contains over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over four thousand English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma. The volume also includes illustrations, a map, antonyms, dialects, stylistic information, word histories, and other useful reference material. Entries are given in both the traditional Creek spelling and a modern phonemic transcription. A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee is the standard reference work for the Creek language. 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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 One: Creek-English	1	(154)
Part Two: Topical Information	155	(10)
Months	157	(1)
Days of the Week	157	(1)
Seasons	157	(1)
Common Expressions	157	(1)
Common Clans	158	(1)
Traditional Dances	158	(1)
Books of the New Testament	159	(1)
Numbers	160	(1)
Ordinal Numbers	161	(1)
Once, Twice, etc.	161	(1)
Age	161	(1)
Chiefs and Principal Chiefs of the Creek Nation	162	(1)
Principal Chiefs, Governors, and Chairmen of the Seminole Nation	162	(1)
Other Famous Figures	163	(2)
Part Three: Place-Names	165	(20)
Creek Place-Names and Groups	167	(4)
English Place-Names of Creek Origin	171	(14)
Part Four: English-Creek	185	(167)
Appendix	352	(2)
Common Affixes appearing in Entries	352	(2)
Illustrations	354