Australian Aboriginal words in English : their origin and meaning

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Label

Australian Aboriginal words in English : their origin and meaning

Title remainder

their origin and meaning

Statement of responsibility

R.M.W. Dixon ... [et al.]

Contributor

• Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-

Editor

• Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Dictionaries
• Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Etymology
• Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Terms and phrases
• English language -- Australia -- Terms and phrases
• English language -- Foreign words and phrases | Australian languages -- Dictionaries
• Language - Change
• Language - English - Aboriginal English
• Language - Non-Indigenous
• Language - Vocabulary

Genre

• Dictionaries
• Etymology
• Terms and phrases

Language

eng

Summary

Provides the origins of words that have been borrowed from the Indigenous languages of Australia -- Includes language group names -- English pronunciation guide to the borrowed words -- Approximate language group map -- Introduction to Australian languages -- How to pronounce and write Australian languages -- The loan words and their etymologies -- Languages of particular note including Dharuk, Wiradhuri/Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi, Yuwaalaraay, Bandjalang, Dharawal, Dhurga, Baagandji -- Nyungar, Western Desert Language; Yindjibarndi, Panyjima, Nhanta, Wuywurung, Wathawarung, Wemba Wemba, Gaurna, Yaralde, Adnyamathanha, Guyani, Diyari, Arabana, Wangganguru, Yagara, Gabi-gabi, Dyirbal, Warrgamay, Aranda, Tasmanian language -- Borrowed words as relate to fauna, flora, religion and ceremony, people, implements, features of the environment, body parts, clothing, dwellings, verbs, adjectives, adverbs -- The process of borrowing -- extending the meaning of words -- Making new words -- Adapting the sounds -- Words only partly adapted -- Shifted meanings -- Some common loans -- Relations between the races -- Artefacts -- Art -- Traditional life and religion -- Regaining pride and land

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

499.15/32

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• dictionaries