kangaroo

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
pat-a-ga-ram
English JS Main: 
kangaroo
English: 
the little vocabulary, inserted in Mr. CookeÕs account of this part of the world, should appear defective; even were we not to take in the great probability of the dialects at Endeavour river, and Van DiemanÕs land, differing from that spoken at Port Jackson. And it remains to be proved, that the animal, called here Pat-a-ga-ram, is not there called Kanguroo.
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Sub-category: 
kangaroo
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
231
Line: 
40
Respelt: 
bada-ga-ram
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1793
Meaning Clue: 
"pat-a-ga-ram" badagaram = "the little vocabulary, inserted in Mr. Cooke’s account of this part of the world, should appear defective; even were we not to take in the great probability of the dialects at Endeavour river, and Van Dieman’s land, differing from that spoken at Port Jackson. And it remains to be proved, that the animal, called here Pat-a-ga-ram, is not there called Kanguroo." kangaroo grey: Tench [:231:40] [BB]
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
Comment: 
PROBABLY ERROR FOR ’bada-ga-ran’: DIFFERENT TENCH SPELLING FROM p. 269 // NO WORDS -m FINAL IN BB.