Notes And Drafts For Quechua English And Quechua Spanish Dictionaries

Download or read book Notes and drafts for Quechua-English and Quechua-Spanish dictionaries written by Joseph Henry Gybbon Spilsbury and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes and drafts for Quechua-Spanish and Quechua-English dictionaries, compiled by Joseph Henry Gybbon Spilsbury, probably between 1886 and 1896. Drafts include three Quechua-Spanish and three Quechua-English vocabulary lists, containing words and phrases in Quechua, followed by their equivalents in Spanish or English. In many cases, translations include brief explanations, examples, and Latin terms. Abbreviations are used to identify Quechua terms as nouns, proper nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, or interjections. Miscellaneous papers in the collection include other fragments of vocabulary lists; a long religious poem in Spanish; draft of a letter from Gybbon Spilsbury to Dr. O. Magnasco, Argentine [?] Minister of Education regarding an educational exhibition held in London; fragments of texts in Quechua, Spanish, English, and Hebrew, the latter from the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua; a receipt signed by Gybbon Spilsbury and dated Dec. 27, 1886; a telegram, dated March 5, 1894, addressed to Gybbon Spilsbury in Via Uruguay in Buenos Aires from Leopoldo Escobro Vega; and two Buenos Aires newspaper clippings from La Nación of Oct. 12, 1896 and La Verdad of July 31, 1895.