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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 31, 2012
- 2 min
Mooney Mooney
Mooney Mooney is on the Hawkesbury River. There is a club there where lunch may be had, with a balcony offering a view over the water;...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 1, 2012
- 2 min
NSW Words: Repetitive yar
When reviewing Wiradhuri records made by Archdeacon James Gunther around 1837, your database compiler chanced upon: This called to mind a...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 22, 2011
- 2 min
BIYAL BIYAL Words: koala
‘KOALA’: what does it mean? A koala is one of Australia’s favourite treasures of the animal kingdom. It looks almost unbearably...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 15, 2011
- 4 min
Yarrangobilly
Yarrangobilly is in the Snowy Mountains, about 40 km west from the southern portion of the ACT. This places it in Ngarigo country....
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Jeremy Steele
- Nov 25, 2011
- 4 min
Zoo tour name
The local zoo was looking for guidance for a name for a walking tour of the zoo, and offered its preliminary ideas: 1 Burraga Nura …...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 31, 2011
- 2 min
Merimbula
A personal diary entry from January 1984 has the record: “Later we all set off by car headed for Twofold Bay150 km away approx. Did this...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jan 24, 2011
- 2 min
AWABAKAL Words
THOSE WERE THE DAYS A generation after the upheaval of 1788 and the arrival of the First Fleet, and around 150 km north of Sydney,...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 31, 2010
- 3 min
NSW Words: tracing the Bokhara and other NSW rivers
Bokhara In a press report in the Sydney Morning Herald for the last day of 2010, there was the following entry: Moderate to major...
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Jeremy Steele
- Oct 11, 2010
- 1 min
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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