Jeremy Steele
Language Abbreviations used in the Bayala Databases
The following is a typical summary table from the Bayala databases presenting a few of the words for ‘kangaroo’ across the country. The...
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Jeremy Steele
- Apr 25
- 5 min
R.H. Mathews
Who was Mathews? One of the principal figures in the recording of Aboriginal languages, particularly in the Sydney region, was Robert...
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Jeremy Steele
- Apr 17
- 7 min
BIYAL BIYAL Australian National Anthem - updated
How did this translation come about? An Aboriginal singer-songwriter acquaintance sent an email inviting Your Amateur Researcher (YAR) to...
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Jeremy Steele
- Nov 8, 2022
- 3 min
Where does the name ‘Native Companion’ come from?
The following entry from the Macquarie archive gives basic information about the brolga but does not explain where the term ‘native...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 18, 2021
- 11 min
The Ten Commandments in DIERI language
Dieri is an Aboriginal language once spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in Cooper Creek country in the Sturt Stony Desert in north-west...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 27, 2018
- 4 min
Threlkeld working in the wilderness
Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, born in 1788, is, or was, exactly 150 years older than your modern-day amateur student of Awabakal, the Lake...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 20, 2018
- 4 min
Translating a verse in St Mark’s Gospel
Picture the lonely austere missionary the Rev. Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, deep in Aboriginal country sometime between 1834 and 1837 in...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 13, 2018
- 2 min
AWABAKAL conjoined pronouns
The Lake Macquarie missionary the Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld produced a grammar of the language where his mission was established. This...
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Jeremy Steele
- Nov 21, 2017
- 24 min
Threlkeld Annual Report 1838
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES, LAKE MACQUARIE, FOR MDCCCXXXVIII Ebenezer, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, December...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jun 30, 2016
- 7 min
BIYAL BIYAL Words: damara or mara: 'hand'
Body parts are the best documented category of words for many Aboriginal languages because they were the most immediate and most...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 15, 2016
- 2 min
Old Mans Valley
Just to the west of Hornsby, a northern suburb of Sydney, is Old Mans Valley. One might reasonably assume that the name was inspired by...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jan 20, 2016
- 6 min
BIYAL BIYAL Australian National Anthem
How did this translation come about? An Aboriginal singer-songwriter acquaintance sent an email inviting Your Amateur Researcher (YAR) to...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 18, 2015
- 3 min
TASMANIA Words: 'grub' for grub
Meeting some Tasmanians It’s the year 1793, and the place later known as Tasmania. Ten years before the first European settlement to be...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 17, 2015
- 7 min
TASMANIA Words: 'sun'=big eye
It is something of a thrill for Your Amateur Researcher (YAR) when a little bit of the curtain shrouding the mysteries of the Tasmanian...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 14, 2015
- 3 min
TASMANIA Words: 'star' shine
The word marama in the Tasmanian word lists caught the attention again today. The meaning given for it is ‘star’. DEEP TIME No-one quite...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 2, 2015
- 5 min
Trunketabella
One can only surmise what the euphonious NSW place name Trunketabella might mean. We yearn for a translation such as ‘pretty trinkets’,...
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Jeremy Steele
- Nov 23, 2015
- 3 min
TASMANIA Words: white 'feather'
The Tasmanian Bayala database keeps throwing up small insights into the Tasmanian languages, and suggests the launching of a goose chase....
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Jeremy Steele
- Oct 20, 2015
- 5 min
TASMANIA: Having a look at suffixes
Affixes: prefixes, infixes, suffixes — the lot Joseph Milligan, who provided more extensive vocabularies than anyone else, famously...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 30, 2015
- 3 min
TASMANIA Words: rana: ‘bone’
Working on the Tasmanian vocabularies Here is a typical fragment of Tasmanian vocabulary: Fig. 1 Extract from the Joseph Milligan list...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 19, 2015
- 4 min
TASMANIA: Mistakes in the word lists
Europeans encountered Aboriginal people from before the upheaval that began in 1788. Lists of words were obtained in Botany Bay in 1770,...
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