hand
Language:
NSW COAST
Australian:
iamerai
English JS Main:
hand
English:
Main
Category:
body parts and products
Sub-category:
limbs
Source:
Lesson MS
Page:
297
Line:
7.1
Respelt:
yamarayi
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1824
Meaning Clue:
‘yamma’ yama = ‘Hand’: Curr, E.M.: 3 [340.2:26.2] [BPI]
‘Yumree’ yamari = ‘Hand’: RSNSW 1898 [p.224.3 Larmer [225.1:19] [HntrR]
‘iamerai’ yamarai = ‘Main’ (hand): Lesson MS [297:7.1] [NORTH]
‘yam-mo-long’ yamulang = ‘Hand’: Tkld KRE c.1835 [137.1:5] [KRE]
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. 2:888-890, 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:
widespread examples of ‘damara’ form of word