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navel

Language: 
Sydney
Australian: 
Man-a-roo
English JS Main: 
navel
English: 
Umbilicus
Category: 
body parts and products
Sub-category: 
torso
Source: 
SofM 18970430 [106.1: Suttor-Pt Jackson]
Page: 
107.1
Line: 
26
Respelt: 
muna-ru
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1897.4
Meaning Clue: 
‘Munuru’ munuru’ = ‘Navel’: Dawes [b:39:3.2] [BB] ‘moo-nur-ro’ munuru’ = ‘Navel’: Collins 1 [513.1:1.1] [BB] ‘mn-ee-ro’ maniru = ‘navel’: Tench [231:6.1] [BB] ‘moon-or-oh’ munaru = ‘Navel’ Southwell [148.1:2] [BB]
Source Details: 
Science of Man: 30.4.1897, page 106: LINGUISTICS Kindly supplied by J.B. Suttor, Esq., of Bathurst, N.S.W. Consists of columns for: "Port Jackson 106.1 90 records "Macquarie R. 106.2 "Darling R. 106.3 "Lachlan R. 106.4 "Wollondilly R. 106.5 "Raffles Bay 106.6 "King Georges’s Sound 106.7 "Moreton Bay 106.8 NOTE: This list occurs on p. 106, continues on p. 107, with an easy-to-miss third section in a lower portion on the right hand side of 107, with columns for Lachlan R., Wollondilly R. and Raffles Bay. ========================= JS LIST LOCATION: JS Vocabs ringbinder under ’Suttor’; also in SofM lime green ringbinder
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