Jeremy Steele
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
- 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
- Sep 6, 2010
- 2 min
DHARAWAL Words: mosquito
The Rev. William Ridley (1819-1878) wrote an article, ‘Australian languages and traditions’ (AL&T), published in the February 1878 issue...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 29, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: ‘tooth’ for a world view
Reflecting on the wordlists from the Australian southwest, or no doubt from any area of the country, gives an occasional glimpse of the...
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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
- Aug 28, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: gubal: 'belly', 'sleep', 'afternoon' or 'river'?
Daisy Bates provided the following sentence, with general and literal translations: dajä wâ gäbälä? Any fish in the river (or water)?...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 27, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: gurd: have a 'heart'
The word for ‘heart’ is gurd. By extension, gurd is also used for someone loved: With the possessive suffix -ag to yield ‘heart-of’, the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 17, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: ‘Jetta’ or dyida
Lewis Jetta of the Sydney Swans celebrates his goal with an Indigenous Dance during the 2015 AFL round 17 match between the West Coast...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 14, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: the ‘thunder’ trail
The sky darkens. There is a heaviness in the air. It feels damp. The clouds are massing. Then the rumbling of thunder starts and it...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 14, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: barang: effective auxiliary
barang crops up a lot. It seems to mean ‘carry’, ‘bring’ and the like. But is is also used in combinations, where it seems to have the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 11, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: Wialki: meaning not known
WIALKI “Latitude 30° 29′ S Longitude 118° 07′ E The townsite of Wialki is … 341 km north east of Perth and 25 km east of Beacon. … Wialki...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 3, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: durda: 'dog' / 'healthy (frisky)'
The most common Nyungar word for ‘dog’ is durda: There were various spellings: Some recorders did not hear, or note, the ‘r’ sound: What...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 30, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: manga connections
What can ‘nest’, ‘barb’, ‘spear’, ‘leaf’, ‘hair’ and ‘shoulder’ have to do with one another? They all appear to be linked through manga /...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 29, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: windu: 'old'
It often happens that a word appears in a list, with alongside it a simple translation, such as windu: ‘old’ There being several...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 28, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: gur / garu: ‘again’, ‘more’
A large number of Nyungar words end in -gur but no common thread jumps out to suggest a meaning. gur also occurs on its own, as does the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 26, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: 'through' / 'pierce' / 'intend'
On p. 283 of A Nyoongar Wordlist from the Southwest of Western Australia (Bindon and Chadwick, 1992) there is an entry of which the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 25, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: yuda
yuda occurs in all the following expressions connected with flowering plants: From this is would seem the best interpretation of yuda is...
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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
- Jul 22, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: murdu, murda
high/deep hard/firm bald rat young night There seem to be two distinct concepts here, one or the other possibly underlying several of the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 19, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: igan / yagan
dog / wild / bad / turtle / arouse/ alarm /startle / disturb / drive / chase SPELLING From the above record extracts it would seem that...
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