Tarahumarisches Wörterbuch: nebst einigen Nachrichten von den Sitten und Gebräuchen der Tarahumaren, in Neu-Biscaya, in der Audiencia Guadalajara im vice-Königreiche Alt-Mexiko oder Neu Spanien
Nachrichten von Verschiedenen Landern des Spanischen Amerika.
Collection area: Borderlands
Collection dates: 1791
The one volume contains both a German-Tarahumara dictionary, and a Tarahumara-German dictionary. Steffel annotated some of the entries. The end section contains general phrases that he says are derived in format from those of Herr Bacmeister, St. Petersburg, 1773; but that he has altered to consist of Latin, German, and Tarahumaran equivalents.
Introduction and annotations in German; words and phrases in German, Tarahumaran, and Latin.
Jesuit missionary to the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico; wrote his dictionary while in Brunn (present day Brno, Czechoslovakia) 20 years after the Jesuits were expelled.
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