Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]

Michael J.C. Echeruo

ISBN 10: 0300073070 / ISBN 13: 9780300073072

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998

About this Item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Inscribed by author to journalist and language columnist William Safire on front free endpaper "To: William Safire with author's compliments. Michael Echeruo, 1998." Hallmark Hanukkah card inscribed by Echeruo to Safire and two of his Syracuse University business cards also laid in. Octavo. 283 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is faded along spine, with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards sturdy and sharp. Spine ends nudged. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 5165

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300073070
• ISBN 13: 9780300073072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Language
  • Reference
  • Signed
  • William Safire Collection

About this title

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Igbo language, one of the three national languages of Nigeria. Michael J. C. Echeruo, a native speaker of Igbo, focuses on basic words and phrases that the twenty million speakers of Igbo encounter in everyday life—in conversation and in Igbo texts. Recognizing the absence of a single dominant dialect, the author collects words from all of them, with emphasis on the predominant Owerri and Onitsha dialects. The book also includes an English-Igbo index listing Igbo equivalents for particular English words.

In the first section of this dictionary, thorough entries for each of some four thousand Igbo discrete word-forms feature Igbo headwords in bold type followed by grammatical class, tone, dialect zone, English meanings, Igbo examples, variants, etymology, and special notes where necessary. Verbs are listed under their consonantal stems as well as in combined entries that include the nouns that complete their meanings. The dictionary`s second part is a convenient English index that refers the user to the closest Igbo synonyms for English words. With a helpful introduction and appendices, this volume will be a primary reference work for both native and non-native users of the Igbo language.
 

Language Notes

Text: English