Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical PrinciplesUsing the historical principles of the Oxford English Dictionary, Lise Winer presents the first scholarly dictionary of this unique language. The dictionary comprises over 12,200 entries, including over 4500 for flora and fauna alone, with numerous cross-references. Entries include definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymologies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations of usage. Winer draws from a wide range of sources - newspapers, literature, scientific reports, sound recordings of songs and interviews, spoken language - to provide a wealth and depth of language, clearly situated within a historical, cultural, and social context. |
Contents
| 1 | |
A Flora by Scientific Names | 991 |
B Fauna by Scientific Names | 1003 |
Bibliographical References | 1019 |
Other editions - View all
Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles Lise Winer No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
African bamboo bamboo band band Baptiste beat belly bird blue bois Boissière Bomb Boodhoo brown bush Bush Medicine cacao calabash callaloo called calypso calypsonian cane Carnival cassava Chinese chutney cocoa coconut colour cooked coolie coral snake corn crab creole cultivated cutlass dance dark drum edible ESTT fish flowers French fruit green ground H-Bh Haynes head Herskovits Hindu Indian intj Kikongo kite leaves male mango Mendes Moodie-Kublalsingh Morean ORISHA Ottley person plant play Port of Spain POSG poss prob rice seeds Selvon Sept skin snake songs SPIRITUAL BAPTIST steelband stick sugar tail Tobago Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago Trinidadian underparts upperparts Verteuil wings woman wood yellow