clan

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
- eean
English JS Main: 
clan
English: 
The women of the tribe are denoted by adding eean to any of the foregoing words
Category: 
suffix
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
292
Line: 
15
Respelt: 
-iyan
Part of speech: 
SFX
Date: 
1793
Source Details: 
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History