yarraman
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Suspected to be from an Australian language of coastal New South Wales, but the term was used by white settlers as a pidgin for communicating with the indigenous people and was rapidly adopted into their languages (preceding actual arrival of horses in some cases), making an origin difficult to ascertain. Each may well have believed they were using the other's word! (Reference: R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN.)
Noun
[edit]yarraman (plural yarramans or yarramen)
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:yarraman.
Australian Kriol
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarraman
Guugu Yimidhirr
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarraman
Synonyms
[edit]- guguur (avoidance language)
Wiradjuri
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarraman
Yagara
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarraman
References
[edit]- State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Brisbane Animal Words.
Yanyuwa
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarraman
Categories:
- English terms with unknown etymologies
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Australian Aboriginal English
- en:Horses
- Australian Kriol lemmas
- Australian Kriol nouns
- rop:Mammals
- Guugu Yimidhirr lemmas
- Guugu Yimidhirr nouns
- kky:Mammals
- Wiradjuri lemmas
- Wiradjuri nouns
- wrh:Mammals
- Yagara lemmas
- Yagara nouns
- Yanyuwa lemmas
- Yanyuwa nouns
- jao:Mammals