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Jeremy Steele
Oct 11, 20101 min read
BIYAL BIYAL Words: ringing
Sometime in 1791, William Dawes recorded the verb ‘to tear’, as in ‘tearing a piece of paper’: This was to prove one of many instances of...
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Jeremy Steele
Sep 21, 20102 min read
NSW COAST Words: calling cooee
Everyone knows the bush call ‘cooee’. Not so many know that it is an Indigenous word, and that it means ‘come’. It was recorded by...
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Jeremy Steele
Sep 12, 20103 min read
DHARAWAL Words: tackling the unijerunbi minku? puzzle
On page 101 of the Rev. William Ridley's Kamilaroi and Other Languages (KAOL)* the following occurs in a list of 21 Dharawal words or...
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Jeremy Steele
Sep 6, 20102 min read
DHARAWAL Words: mosquito
The Rev. William Ridley (1819-1878) wrote an article, ‘Australian languages and traditions’ (AL&T), published in the February 1878 issue...
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Jeremy Steele
Aug 14, 20101 min read
NYUNGAR Words: barang: effective auxiliary
barang crops up a lot. It seems to mean ‘carry’, ‘bring’ and the like. But is is also used in combinations, where it seems to have the...
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Jeremy Steele
Jul 28, 20102 min read
NYUNGAR Words: gur / garu: ‘again’, ‘more’
A large number of Nyungar words end in -gur but no common thread jumps out to suggest a meaning. gur also occurs on its own, as does the...
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Jeremy Steele
Jul 22, 20102 min read
NYUNGAR Words: mangad: 'aunt' / 'ant'
English commonly has specific words to express shades of meaning. It has, for example, endless words for colour names: not only ‘red’ but...
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Jeremy Steele
Jul 7, 20101 min read
'Bad' across the country
There are several words to express ‘bad’, but it is interesting to note one similarity between the Nyungar language of south-west Western...
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Jeremy Steele
Apr 23, 20072 min read
Undiscovered site
Not surprisingly, no-one has found the Naabawinya site so far, but perhaps this will change. I have put into modest circulation some...
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Jeremy Steele
Jun 19, 20062 min read
Sydney Aboriginal Language
I have an interest in the Sydney Aboriginal Language. I wrote a 16-page ‘Tourist’s Guide’ to it. I would like to put it here, but have...
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