A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language: To Which is Appended an English-Hawaiian Vocabulary and a Chronological Table of Remarkable Events (1865) - Softcover

Andrews, Lorrin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1112072063 ISBN 13: 9781112072062

Publisher: Cornell University Library, 2009

Synopsis

Originally published in 1865. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The roots of A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language go back to the late 1820s, when Lorrin Andrews arrived in Hawaii and began a systematic study of Hawaiian, which grew into a love of the language that was to continue for forty years. In 1836, he published a Hawaiian "vocabulary," which eventually quadrupled in size to become the present work, which first appeared in 1865. Although many missionary linguistics compiled dictionaries of Polynesian languages to aid in translating, Andrews had a different motive: to collect "specimens of the language of common life." To this end, he used native speakers, mostly through their writings, as the authorities for defining words. In the 1860s, Hawaiian was indeed the language of common life, for it was used in everyday communication, and in such institutions as the schools, the government, and the church. This, this dictionary provides a rare and valuable glimpse into mid-nineteenth-century Hawaiian culture and thought. This is especially important today, as students and scholars examine the past to help insure that Hawaiian continues as a living language in the present and the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Library
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1112072063
• ISBN 13: 9781112072062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 570