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glider

Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
chubbi
English JS Main: 
glider
English: 
Sugar squirrel
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Sub-category: 
possum
Source: 
Mathews DG 1901
Page: 
158.2
Line: 
33
Respelt: 
dya-bi
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1901
Meaning Clue: 
‘chubbi’ dyabi = ‘Sugar squirrel’ (possum glider) : Mathews DG 1901[158.2:33] [DG] "jibagulu_" DYIBA-gulang = "man (white)" whiteman : KAOL Rowley GeoR [:103:2] [DG]
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

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