Dandeson Coates Crowther an Hugo Schuchardt (01-02036)
an Hugo Schuchardt
23. 07. 1883
Englisch
Schlagwörter: Universität Graz Österreich
Zitiervorschlag: Dandeson Coates Crowther an Hugo Schuchardt (01-02036). London, 23. 07. 1883. Hrsg. von Frank-Rutger Hausmann (2022). In: Bernhard Hurch (Hrsg.): Hugo Schuchardt Archiv. Online unter https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:hsa.letter.9572, abgerufen am 01. 10. 2023. Handle: hdl.handle.net/11471/518.10.1.9572.
3, Tyndale Place
Islington
London N.
July 23rd 1883
Dear Sir,
I was away from London for a few days & only just returned.
With respect to the important subject of your kind letter, I can give you no information on the ,secret-lingo‘ spoken of, except that on certain occasions, words are formed by a certain clique which defy any analogies from |2| given roots in the language, & the meaning attached to them arbitrary, & only understood by those who found them. I suppose the words given by you belong to the same category. Not knowing Calabar,1 I cannot of course speak with certainty about them.
With kind regards.
Believe me
Yrs respetfully
D. C. Crowther
Dr. H. Schuchardt Professor University of Graz Austria
1 Calabar ist eine Stadt in Nigeria. – Zur Sprache vgl. HSA ( 04-09014), Josef Priebsch an Schuchardt.