navel

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Mn-ee-ro
English JS Main: 
navel
English: 
The Navel
Category: 
body parts and products
Sub-category: 
torso
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
231
Line: 
6.1
Respelt: 
máni-ru
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1793
Meaning Clue: 
"Mn-ee-ro" maniru = "The Navel" navel : Tench [:231:6.1] [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: 
boom-b˜ng (Hawkesbury) COMMUNICATION ERROR? c.18.3 mangaru = ’I don’t know’; could this be a response when a yura was asked the word for navel, and he/she did not know it? However, there are several examples of this word for ‘navel’, so maybe it really is correct for it. [JS 30 July 2004]