The Kwéyòl Dictionary
This Dictionary is published by the Ministry of Education of St. Lucia to meet the need for an authoritative, affordable reference guide on Creole. The research for this dictionary was done by the the Summer Institutes of Linguistics team in the years 1984 - 2000.This dictionary for St. Lucian Kwéyòl is in two parts. The first is arranged alphabetically according to Kwéyòl key words with English definitions. Different senses of the word are given, along an example sentence illustrative of the word used in that sense. Other information is given as well, including the part of speech, any synonyms, antonyms, or cross-references, and an etymology, if known.
The second part of the dictionary is arranged alphabetically according to English key words. Parts of speech and Kwéyòl meanings are given for each English key word, again with different senses indicated where applicable. As the main purpose of this dictionary is to serve as a reference guide on Kwéyòl, the information given about English is not as extensive as the information given about Kwéyòl. The purpose of the English-Kwéyòl part of the dictionary is to give a quick Kwéyòl gloss of the English words and point the reader to the right spot in the Kwéyòl-English part of the dictionary for more complete information.
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