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big burn me eye

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Murray-can-na dinga mi
English JS Main: 
big burn me eye
English: 
The effect of hot burning sun on the eye
Source: 
King in Hunter
Page: 
409.2
Line: 
10
Key Entry: 
eye
Respelt: 
marayi ganadinga mayi
Part of speech: 
phrase 3
Date: 
1792
Meaning Clue: 
’gana’ = ’burn/fire’ [?]: [b:11:14; b:11:19] ‘gunbi’: ganbi = ‘Fire’: Everitt, Mary: Folder/Doc Afa [84:3] ‘kanbi’: ganbi = ‘Wood for fire ‘: Mathews: Kamilaroi/Thurrawal (Thurrawal), 1903 [277.1:27] ‘kanbi’: ganbi = ‘fire’: KAOL Ridley [WODI] [124:25.7] [WODI] ‘Canby’: ganbi = ‘Fire’: King PP (Scott) [635:13] [xxx] ‘kanbi’: ganbi = ‘Fire’: Mathews DWL + Kml 1903 [277.1:3] [DWL] ‘Canb’ ganb“ = ‘Fire’: Mitchell, Sir T.L.: Wollondilly River [373:2] [GGA] ‘Kån’’: ganai = ‘It is burnt’: Dawes [b:11:19.1] [BB]  G‹ni: gani = ‘a tree on fire’: Wiradhuri: Awabakal: (Fraser) Gunther [84:28] [[  = ’other dialects]]
Source Details: 
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy. Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London. Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.
Comment: 
’murray’ as English name --> mari // glare

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