halter, or as he writes, baug-doore, he derives from dur, distance, instead of dor, a rope. He has no
knowledge of the instrumental case with terminal ne, and he does not seem to be aware that ham and
tum (hum and toom, as he writes) are in reality plurals (we and you). The grammar is altogether of a
very primitive and tentative character, and far behind that of the R. C. Missionaries, which is referred to
s.v. Hindostanee. We have not seen that of Schulz (1745) mentioned under the same.
1752.The Centinel was sitting at the top of the gate, singing a Moorish song.Orme, ed. 1803, i.
272.
1767.In order to transact Business of any kind in this Countrey, you must at least have a smattering
of the Language for few of the Inhabitants (except in great Towns) speak English. The original Language,
of this Countrey (or at least the earliest we know of) is the Bengala or Gentoo.
But the politest Language
is the Moors or Mussulmans and Persian.
The only Language that I know anything of is the Bengala,
and that I do not speak perfectly, for you may remember that I had a very poor knack at learning Languages.MS.
Letter of James Rennell, March 10.
1779.
C. What language did Mr. Francis speak?
W. (Meerum
Kitmutgar). The same as I do, in broken Moors.Trial of Grand v. Philip Francis, quoted in Echoes
of Old Calcutta, 226.
1783.Moors, by not being written, bars all close application.Letters in Life of
Colebrooke, 13.
The language called Moors has a written character differing both from the Sanskrit
and Bengalee character, it is called Nagree, which means writing. Letter in Mem. of Ld. Teignmouth,
i. 104.
1784.
Wild perroquets first silence broke, Eager of dangers near to prate; But they in English never spoke, And
she began her Moors of late. Plassey Plain, a Ballad by Sir W. Jones, in Works, ii. 504.
1788.Wants Employment. A young man who has been some years in Bengal, used to common accounts,
understands Bengallies, Moors, Portuguese.
In Seton-Karr, i. 286.
1789.
sometimes slept half an
hour, sometimes not, and then wrote or talked Persian or Moors till sunset, when I went to parade.Letter
of Sir T. Munro, i. 76.
1802.All business is transacted in a barbarous mixture of Moors, Mahratta,
and Gentoo.Sir T. Munro, in Life, i. 333.
1803.Conceive what society there will be when people
speak what they dont think, in Moors.M. Elphinstone, in Life, i. 108.
1804.She had a Moorish
woman interpreter, and as I heard her give orders to her interpreter in the Moorish language
I must
consider the conversation of the first authority.Wellington, iii. 290.
The Strangers Guide to the Hindoostanic,
or Grand Popular Language of India, improperly called Moorish; by J. Borthwick Gilchrist: Calcutta.
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