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Bennelong

Language: 
NSW COAST
Australian: 
O-gul-troyee
English JS Main: 
Bennelong
English: 
Ôor Benelong (for they have in general Many Names)Õ
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Cobley 1789: Johnson to H. Fricker
Page: 
169
Line: 
34
Respelt: 
Wågal-dara-wi
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘Drower’: darawa = ‘centipede’: Curr, E.M.: 3 [345.2:18] [BPI] ‘dhurrawarri’: darawari = ‘Water iguana’: Mathews 1904 [304:26] [NGWL] ‘Dooroow’: durawu = ‘son’: King MS [394:1] [BB] ‘durawi’: darawi = ‘grass’: AL&T Rowley GeoR [258:34] [DgR] ‘durawoi’: durawai = ‘grass’: KAOL Rowley GeoR [105:15] [DgR] ‘Dir«-rawâ’: dirawa = ‘a rib’: Enright GDG 1900 [111:18] [GDG] ‘thoo«-ree-wâ-ro’: duriwaru = ‘between’: Everitt, Mary: RHM 8006/3/7 Nbk 7 [132:20] [GGA] ‘Drue Drue’: daruwi daruwi = ‘Owl’: Bowman: ’Bulgara’ [13:5] [NORTH] darawana = ‘A magpie’: King in Hunter [410.2:4] [BB]; dara-wu-nang = "Piping Roller": Painters [NHM #12513]; ================= ‘darooi’: daruwi = ‘Sweet’: Curr, E.M.: 3 [333.2:11] [BJLG]
Comment: 
Source: Johnson [Rev. Richard] to H. Fricker, 9 April 1790, [Mitchell MSS] [Note 34, p. 310, Tench]

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