armpit
Language:
NSW COAST
Australian:
Ke«-li-an
English JS Main:
armpit
English:
Aisselles
Category:
body parts and products
Sub-category:
torso
Source:
Lesson, R.P.
Page:
297
Line:
12
Respelt:
gili-yan
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1824
Meaning Clue:
‘Ke«-li-an’: giliyan = ‘Aisselles’ (armpit): Lesson, R.P. [297:12] [xxx]
‘Killang’: gilang = ‘armpit’: Curr, E.M.: 3 [346.2:51] [BPI]
‘kinian’ giniyan = ‘Upper arm’: Curr, E.M.: 3 [354.1:3.1] [WNRA]
’gilang’ = armpit: John Branch (Biripi = Gdg)
King and Brown give ‘galyang’ as (back of) neck
Source Details:
Lesson, RenŽ Primevre, 1839. Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par order du Gouvernement sur la Corvette La Coquille, Tome Second. Paris. P. Pourrat Frres, editeurs
’sŽjour au Port-Jackson ... du 17 janvier 1824 au 20 mars suivant’
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KVS notes:
Lesson (1794-1849) was a medical officer, then pharmacist in charge of the Rochedfort Botanical Gardens. assistant surgeon on the corvette la Coquille under Louis Isadore Duperry.
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The printed version of the list contains many errors when compared with the holograph copy of Lesson’s original journal now in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
(HOLOGRAPH COPY: Voyage de la Coquille. Journal du manuscript ... partie du Voyage de la Coquille. RŽdigŽ par Lesson ... Holograph copy. B1298, vol. 2: pp. 888-890, ML.
Some Lachlan River words have been ascribed to Port Jackson in the printed version. [KVS]
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JS LIST LOCATION
Photocopied pages from 238 to 297 in Sydney Aboriginal Early Readings folder;
includes a wordlist on p. 296-97, also included in Word Lists A-L ringbinder.