Akwekon Tetewakhanyon = Let’s Pull It All Together: Mohawk Language Course Dictionary

Alternate Language Names

Kanien’kéha, Kanyen’kéha.

Region

Ontario and Quebec, Canada; New York, United States.

Who

David Kanatawakhon-Maracle.

Others Involved

This dictionary does not provide information on others who were involved in its creation.

Publishing Information

This resource was published in 2003 at the Centre for the Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages, University of Western Ontario.

How People are Cited

This dictionary does not cite any contributors other than the author, who is cited on the front cover of the book.

How Information is Cited

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Where is Information Coming from

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Tools and Framework used

This dictionary is a physical book.

Access

This dictionary can be accessed through select libraries.

Included Languages and Directionality

Mohawk to English and English to Mohawk.

Dialects Included

No dialect is specified for this dictionary.

Type of Dictionary

This resource is a bilingual, bidirectional wordlist which includes a short grammar at the beginning describing pronominal prefixes and descriptive endings.

How are Entries Organised

This dictionary begins with a short guide to pronunciation and a brief description of Mohawk root words.

The dictionary includes a Mohawk to English dictionary. Entries are organized alphabetically by Mohawk word, which is bolded. The Mohawk word is followed by a bracketed list of descriptive endings for the word, and an English definition in italics. In some cases, this English translation is followed by an example of a word that contains the entry word. This example word is accompanied by a breakdown of the example word in brackets into its morphemes, or the smallest units of the word that have meaning. In the example word, the original entry word is bolded.

The last part of the dictionary is an English to Mohawk dictionary, again organized alphabetically, but this time by English word. Mohawk words remain in bold. Sometimes, the English entry is a phrase instead of a single word, but all entries translate to single Mohawk words. Entries consist of the English word or phrase, followed by the Mohawk translation in bold.

The resource also includes a grammar, beginning with a section on Pronominal Prefixes and goes over how to create a someone to something paradigm for singular, dual, and plural scenarios. This section presents entries in a table format with columns labeled Pronom., Descriptive, and Paradigm. The entries themselves are organized in alphabetical order, with each table corresponding with a different alphabetical category. For example, the first table is labeled A-Stem Descriptives: Someone to Something and the following table is labeled C-Stem Descriptives: Someone to Something. These descriptives help to define the relationship of someone to something within language. A second and third section on Pronominal Prefixes follow this, covering different prefixes.

After this section is a section on Using Temporal Prefixes. This section goes over how to add prefixes to someone or something pronominal with different descriptives. The section is organized based on prefix type: The Definite, The Intentive, and The Non-Definite. The entries corresponding to each prefix are organized further into alternating groups of someone or something with A- or C-stem descriptives to which the prefixes are added as examples.

Following this is a section on Descriptive Endings organized by those For Actives, those For Statives, Purposive Endings, and Benefactive Endings.

The grammar ends with sections explaining Using the Progressive, organized into Stative and Active examples, and Conjugating the Descriptive, which gives examples with two different roots.

Other Features

Other Notes

The book is a medium sized, soft cover book of 303 pages intended for students of the Mohawk language.