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fear

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
jeerun
English JS Main: 
fear
English: 
Cole-be knew that this would ensure him the appellation of jeerun, or coward, and that the friends of Ye-ra-ni-be would as certainly take up his cause.
Category: 
human emotion, disposition
Source: 
Collins 2
Notebook: 
2
Page: 
47
Line: 
15
Respelt: 
dyiran
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1802
Meaning Clue: 
"jeerun" dyiran = "... jeerun, or coward, ..." fear : Collins 2 [2:47:15] [BB]
Source Details: 
Collins, David 1975 [1802], An Account of the English Colony In New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc, of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, Volume II. ---------------- An Account of the English Colony In New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc, of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, Volume II by David Collins, Late Judge-Advocate and Secretary of the Colony (originally Published 1802). This Australian edition published 1975] by A. H. & A. W. REED PTY LTD, , Sydney, Wellington, London. Edited by Brian H. Fletcher MA PhD, Senior Lecturer In History, University of Sydney; Published in Association with the Royal Australian Historical Society

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