chin
Language:
Sydney [?]
Australian:
Oualou
English JS Main:
chin
English:
Joues
Category:
body parts and products
Sub-category:
head
Source:
Lesson, R.P.
Page:
296
Line:
10
Respelt:
wå-lu
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1824
Meaning Clue:
‘Waœlo’ walu = ‘The chin’: Dawes [b:22:6] [BB]
‘wal-lo’ walu = ‘Chin’: Collins 1 [508.2:7] [BB]
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.
Comment:
COMMUNICATION ERROR: ’walu’ = ‘chin’; informant Gooseberry must have thought LESSON was pointing at chin, not cheek.
[JS 30 July 2004]
’walu’ = chin: Dawes;