Jeremy Steele
What was Sydney really called?
It is often claimed that the Aboriginal the name for Sydney was Warang . Your Amateur Researcher previously speculated about this in the...
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Jeremy Steele
Sep 1210 min
Posts at the Pinnacles
A package holiday coach tour in August 2024 went from Broome in Western Australia to Perth. One of the places visited was the Pinnacles,...
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Jeremy Steele
Jul 43 min
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 255 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 177 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, 20223 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, 202111 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, 20184 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, 20184 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, 20182 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, 201724 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, 20167 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, 20162 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, 20166 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, 20153 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, 20157 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, 20153 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, 20155 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, 20153 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, 20155 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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