navel
Language:
Australian:
Man-a-ro
English JS Main:
navel
English:
The navel
Category:
body parts and products
Sub-category:
torso
Source:
King in Hunter
Page:
409.2
Line:
20
Respelt:
mana-ru
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1792
Meaning Clue:
"Man-a-ro" manaru = "The navel" navel : King in Hunter [:409.2:20] [BB]
Source Details:
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792.
By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy.
Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments
Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London.
Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.
Comment:
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]