Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo IslandHall, Basil
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Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island
Hall, Basil
Korea -- Description and travel; Ryukyu Islands -- Description and travel
There is little variety in the termination of the verb, the tenses being
expressed by other means. I have throughout the vocabulary considered
the termination _oong_ to denote the infinitive, and have translated it
as such, even when the sense points to another mood, merely to preserve
consistency; there are, however, a few exceptions to this, and some of
the verbs will be found to terminate in _ang_, _ing_, _awng_, _ong_, and
_ung_. Those ending in _oong_ seem generally to make the participle
terminate in _ee_, as _wockkayoong_, to separate, makes the participle
_wockkatee_, separated. The negative termination of the verb is
generally _nang_ or _rang_, as _noomang_, not to drink, is the negative
of _noomoong_, to drink; _meerang_, the negative of _meeoong_, to see;
and _nooboorang_, the negative of _noobooyoong_, to climb or ascend.
_Na_ is also used as a negative, _coonsoona_, not to rub out, being the
negative of _coonshoong_, to rub out.
_Nang_, _narang_, and _nashee_ are negatives used with a substantive,
and are always placed after it, as _koomoo nang_, no clouds; _meezee
narang_, no water; and _feejee nashee_, no beard.
Some peculiarities will be found by referring to the following words:
deaf; the sole of the foot; head-ache; palm of the hand; the toe; and
the wrist.
PART I.
VOCABULARY OF ENGLISH AND LOO-CHOO WORDS ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, WITH
NOTES, AND OCCASIONAL REFERENCES TO THE SENTENCES IN THE SECOND PART.
VOCABULARY
OF THE
LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE.
Note on the orthography used in the following vocabulary.--The sounds in
the Loo-Choo words are expressed by the letters which in English
correspond nearest to those sounds. There are no mute vowels. The letter
_a_ is invariably sounded as in the English word _far_. The emphasis is
marked by an accent over the last vowel of the accented syllable. _Ee_
and _oo_, whether accented or not, always express one syllable.
_English._ _Loo-Choo._
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