About the Book: Assamese And English Dictionary
-In regard to the present work, it is the first dictionary of language ever
published, and has necessarily been a difficult task. In the fourteen thousand
words here collected, will be found many in daily use by the people, that no
Bengali scholar will understand. Many of these words have been written as they
dropped from the lips of the people. While the author has thus endeavored to
give the spoken language, and inserted the more common Sanskrit words that are
used in the Puthis, and therefore known to the people. These words are also used
in our school books,