Jeremy Steele
Muogamarra
The following was included in a notice about a future public visit to Muogamarra, dated 15 April 2013: Muogamarra Nature Reserve is a...
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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
- May 8, 2012
- 4 min
Günther and the WIRADHURI reflexive
One of a number of puzzles in Archdeacon Günther’s work on Wiradhuri, as printed in Fraser 1892*, relates to the reflexive. Günther had...
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Jeremy Steele
- Mar 26, 2012
- 3 min
Five verbal suffixes
Suffixes attached to verbs In Australian indigenous languages, or some at least, there seem to be five kinds of suffixes that may be...
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Jeremy Steele
- Oct 11, 2011
- 4 min
What does yela mean?
SYDNEY WORDS William Dawes of the First Fleet wrote, on page 35 of his notebook ‘b’: P. Mr Faddy yéla Mr Clark yenyában Norfolk Island Mr...
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Jeremy Steele
- Oct 8, 2011
- 4 min
Warrang or Warrane — or ngurang?
SYDNEY WORDS One of the earliest recorded names for Sydney, or Sydney Cove, was provided by Philip Gidley King: This was derived from...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 23, 2011
- 2 min
MURUWARI Words: wan: negative imperative 'don’t'
The word “waan”, spelt with a long double-a, appears fairly frequently in the work of Lynette Oates: Oates, Lynette Frances. 1988. The...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 14, 2011
- 4 min
MURUWARI Words: the buga puzzle
Lynette Oates has produced a comprehensive introduction to Muruwari, a language group straddling the NSW-Qld border south of Cunnamulla...
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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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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 28, 2010
- 1 min
Bila east and west
There are some transcontinental words, and bila is one of them. It means ‘stream’. WIRADHURI The following are from the Wiradhuri...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 22, 2010
- 2 min
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
- Apr 23, 2007
- 2 min
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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