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Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
jirranga
English JS Main: 
scratch
English: 
Scratch
Category: 
human activity
Sub-category: 
bodily function
Source: 
Mathews DG 1901
Page: 
160.2
Line: 
21
Respelt: 
dyiranga
Part of speech: 
verb
Date: 
1901
Meaning Clue: 
dyu-ra = ‘A musquito’: [c:24:20] dyurugun = ‘Sharp ‘: Mathews DWL + Kml 1903 [278.4:6] [DWL] dyura dyiny = ‘Mosquito bite’: King MS [399:17]; dyura-dyang = ‘Bite of ditto [musquito]’: [c:24:21] --------------------- duru-li-gu = ‘to pierce, prick, stab, sting, lance, spear.’: Tkld AWA Aust Voc [62:49.2] [AWA] dhara-di = ‘Sting or break skin’: Mathews: 8006/3/7- Nbk 7 [5:36] [Dark]; dura = ‘kill’: Threlkeld, L.E.: Karree, c.1835 [140:26] [Kre] dhura = ‘to pinch’: [b:5:2] dhura-dyá-wai = ‘I have struck’: Southwell [149.1:29.2]; dura-lang = ‘To prick’: King in Hunter [408.2:12] --------------------- dyara-ba = To weary oneself’: [a:29:0.1]; ’dyara-ba’ = ’To ache’ [b:29:16] dyara-ga = ‘To scratch’: [b:19:24]; dyira-ba = ’to pour’: [b:20.16]; ------------------ dyara = ‘A bone’: King in Hunter [408.1:35]; dyara = ‘bone: Hale: Sydney [480:18.2]; dyara = ‘Bones’: Lang: N.S.W. Vocabulary, c.1840 [2:51] dyiral = ‘Bone ‘: Long Dick [2.2:12]; dyara = ‘Bone: Mathews: Dharruk in Thurrawal, 1901 [158:23] -------------------------- dyara-ba ‘Ger-rub-ber’: Anything that gives fire, as a gun etc. [King in Hunter] [408.2:33]; ’yanbad’ = ‘Tired’: [c:17:12] IS THIS THE SAME BASIC ROOT? ------------------- dyaralang = several: Mathews: Dharruk in Thurrawal, 1901 [155:30.1];
Source Details: 
Mathews, R.H: ’Dharruk’ extract from ’The Thurrawal Language’: Read before the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, Nov. 6, 1901, Vol. XXXV, pp. 155-160 Consists of 2 pages of grammar and a 3.3 page wordlist. ================ JS LIST LOCATION: Mathews SOUTH ringbinder

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