ant
Language:
Sydney
Australian:
mayanga
English JS Main:
ant
English:
ant
Category:
fauna: insects and spiders
Source:
Hicks, Zacchary
Page:
35
Line:
4
Respelt:
maya-nga
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1770
Source Details:
Lanyon-Ogill, Dr Peter (Hicks, Zacchary)
Lanyon-Orgill, Peter A. 1979.
Captain Cook's South Sea Island vocabularies / edited by Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill.
Publisher: [Byfleet] ([5 Farm Close, Byfleet, Surrey]) : [The editor], 1979.
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ZACCHARY HICKS details from the Lanyon-Orgill volume, p. 34:
First voyage: H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771:
15 AUSTRALIA-BOTANY BAY (Hicks)
MS. Lanyon 8c. Zachary Hicks, second lieutenant, collected these few words on May 2nd, 1770. They are in fact in Smith's handwriting and supplement his list, but are accompanied by the note: 'these words were given me by Mr Hicks'.
From the Monkhouse entry, p. 33:
‘His [Monkhouse’s] vocabulary, like those recorded by Smith and Hicks, represented one of the Kuri languages, spoken in the central coastal region of New South Wales Father Wilhelm Schmidt ... noted noted that there was considedrable admixture with the Yuin languages, spoken to the south of Sydney (... 1919, p. 96), but these three vocabularies all illustrate the South Kuri language.
‘In all three vocabularies [[Monkhouse, Smith, Hicks]] the later equivalents [i.e. the ones so identified in this JSD database] are derived from Schmidt or manuscript material in my own collections, for which I have been indebted to the lated Dr W.G. Ivens.’
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JS LIST LOCATION: In Sydney Aboriginal: Early Readngs ringbinder; wordlist Australia Botany Bay (Monkhouse, Smith, Hicks) pp. 33-35; also in Word Lists A-L ringbinder, under 'Hicks'.
Photocopy pages: preface ix-x; pp. 32-43, which included Sydney; 136-139, which includes Tasmania; and 286-287, which includes a list of the Lanyon Manuscripts.
Comment:
p.35 col. 1 NO MATCHES FOR ’ant’ BUT SEVERAL BB FOR ’fly’