Dictionary of Louisiana CreoleThis important reference work has been compiled from existing written sources dating back to 1850 and from material collected in Bayou Teche, the German Coast, Pointe Coupee, and St. Tammany Parish. The Dictionary Features: an informative User's Guide, including details on orthography and the design of the dictionary articles; a grammatical sketch of the language; a guide to variant pronunciations; English and French meaning equivalents; creole contextual examples; identification of where examples were collected, with special notation for historical items (i.e., pre-1960); two indexes: a French-Creole index and an English-Creole index; and rich cultural information, with many examples of folklore, traditional medicine, religious beliefs, and agricultural practices. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Observations on Louisiana Creole | 3 |
Users Guide to the Dictionary | 19 |
Key to parts of speech and usage level abbreviations | 27 |
Key to source code abbreviations used in post1960 data | 28 |
Key to source code abbreviations from historical texts | 29 |
Bibliographical references to textual sources | 30 |
Louisiana Creole Dictionary 501 EnglishLouisiana Creole Index | 501 |
FrenchLouisiana Creole Index | 581 |