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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-YorkSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York

Name: Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York
Author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Indians of North America -- New York (State); Iroquois Indians

“I have filled up your Indian vocabulary to-day. I wrote down the words
as they were given to me by one Johnson, a pretty intelligent man,
who sometimes acts as interpreter. My orthography may be somewhat at
fault, owing to my limited knowledge of the Indian manner of sounding
the letters of the English alphabet. In general, I have endeavored
to spell the words according to their sound in English, though the
letter _a_ is used often as in the English, and often to express the
sound of _ah!_ With this exception, and the use of _hon_, _han_ and
_hun_, to express a sound of which nothing in the English can convey
an accurate impression, the spelling accords with the pronunciation.
The Indian from whom I obtained the information informs me he knows of
no words in his language to express such large numbers as _thousands_
and _millions_. I have, therefore, in the cases of those numbers,
filled the blanks with the Indian for _ten hundred_ and _ten hundred
thousand_; that is, in the latter case, _ten hundred ten hundreds_.

“I hope the table will be satisfactory, and that it may be of aid to
you in making the comparison between the languages which you desire.

  “Believe me, your friend, &c.
  “RICHARD U. SHEARMAN.”


ONEIDA.

  223
  224 Alive              Loon ha.
  225 Dead               La wan ha yun.
  226 Life               Yun ha.
  227 Death              Ya wu ha yah.
  228 Cold               Yut ho lah.
  229 Hot                Yu ta le han.
  230 Sour               Ta yo yo gis.
  231 Sweet              Ya wa gon.
  232 Bitter             Yut ska lot.
  233 I                  Ee.
  234 Thou               Eesa.
                            _He_     _she._
  235 He or she          La oon ha—a oon ha.
  236 We                 Tat ne jah loo.
  237 You                Eesa.
  238 They               Lo no hah.
  239 This               Kah e kah.
  240 That               To e kuh.
  241 All                A qua kon.
  242 Part               Ta kah ha sioun.
  243 Many               A so.
  244 Who                Hon ka.
  245 Near               Ac tah.
  246 Far-off            E non.
  247 To-day             Ka wan da.
  248 Yesterday          Ta tan.
  249 To-morrow          A yul ha na.
  250 Yes                Ha.
  251 No                 Yah ten.
  252 Perhaps            To ga no nah.
  253 Above              A nah kan.
  254 Wonder             An ta ka.
  255 Within             Na gon.
  256 Without            Ats ta.
  257 On                 Ka ha le.
  258 Something          Ot hok no ho ta.
  259 Nothing            Ya ha ta non.
  260 One                Ans cot.
  261 Two                Da ga nee.
  262 Three              Ha son.
  263 Four               Ki ya lee.
  264 Five               Wisk.
  265 Six                Yah yak.
  266 Seven              Ja dak.
  267 Eight              Ta ka lon.
  268 Nine               Wa tlon.
  269 Ten                O ya lee.
  270 Eleven             Ans cot ya wa la.

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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-YorkSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Indians of North America -- New York (State); Iroquois Indians

“I have filled up your Indian vocabulary to-day. I wrote down the words
as they were given to me by one Johnson, a pretty intelligent man,
who sometimes acts as interpreter. My orthography may be somewhat at
fault, owing to my limited knowledge of the Indian manner of sounding
the letters of the English alphabet. In general, I have endeavored
to spell the words according to their sound in English, though the
letter _a_ is used often as in the English, and often to express the
sound of _ah!_ With this exception, and the use of _hon_, _han_ and
_hun_, to express a sound of which nothing in the English can convey
an accurate impression, the spelling accords with the pronunciation.
The Indian from whom I obtained the information informs me he knows of
no words in his language to express such large numbers as _thousands_
and _millions_. I have, therefore, in the cases of those numbers,
filled the blanks with the Indian for _ten hundred_ and _ten hundred
thousand_; that is, in the latter case, _ten hundred ten hundreds_.

“I hope the table will be satisfactory, and that it may be of aid to
you in making the comparison between the languages which you desire.

  “Believe me, your friend, &c.
  “RICHARD U. SHEARMAN.”


ONEIDA.

  223
  224 Alive              Loon ha.
  225 Dead               La wan ha yun.
  226 Life               Yun ha.
  227 Death              Ya wu ha yah.
  228 Cold               Yut ho lah.
  229 Hot                Yu ta le han.
  230 Sour               Ta yo yo gis.
  231 Sweet              Ya wa gon.
  232 Bitter             Yut ska lot.
  233 I                  Ee.
  234 Thou               Eesa.
                            _He_     _she._
  235 He or she          La oon ha—a oon ha.
  236 We                 Tat ne jah loo.
  237 You                Eesa.
  238 They               Lo no hah.
  239 This               Kah e kah.
  240 That               To e kuh.
  241 All                A qua kon.
  242 Part               Ta kah ha sioun.
  243 Many               A so.
  244 Who                Hon ka.
  245 Near               Ac tah.
  246 Far-off            E non.
  247 To-day             Ka wan da.
  248 Yesterday          Ta tan.
  249 To-morrow          A yul ha na.
  250 Yes                Ha.
  251 No                 Yah ten.
  252 Perhaps            To ga no nah.
  253 Above              A nah kan.
  254 Wonder             An ta ka.
  255 Within             Na gon.
  256 Without            Ats ta.
  257 On                 Ka ha le.
  258 Something          Ot hok no ho ta.
  259 Nothing            Ya ha ta non.
  260 One                Ans cot.
  261 Two                Da ga nee.
  262 Three              Ha son.
  263 Four               Ki ya lee.
  264 Five               Wisk.
  265 Six                Yah yak.
  266 Seven              Ja dak.
  267 Eight              Ta ka lon.
  268 Nine               Wa tlon.
  269 Ten                O ya lee.
  270 Eleven             Ans cot ya wa la.

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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York

Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York

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