cockatoo

Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
kirrawe
English JS Main: 
cockatoo
English: 
White cockatoo
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
parrot
Source: 
Mathews DG 1901
Page: 
159
Line: 
20
Respelt: 
gira-wi
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1901
Meaning Clue: 
"kirrawe" girawi = "White cockatoo" cockatoo white: Mathews DG 1901 [:159:20] [DG] dyira = white: [b:39:8] gurubira OR dyira-ba-ra: ’g’ = ’j’? cf ’djarrimbirrah’ dyarimbira = white man [Bowman: Camden]
Source Details: 
Mathews, R.H: ’Dharruk’ extract from ’The Thurrawal Language’: Read before the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, Nov. 6, 1901, Vol. XXXV, pp. 155-160 Consists of 2 pages of grammar and a 3.3 page wordlist. ================ JS LIST LOCATION: Mathews SOUTH ringbinder