star
Language:
NSW COAST
Australian:
Gulura
English JS Main:
star
English:
La lune
Category:
elements: firmament
Source:
Lesson, R.P.
Page:
297
Line:
37
Respelt:
gulu-ra
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1824
Meaning Clue:
‘koolang’ gulang = ‘star’: Curr, E.M.: 3: Tuckerman [359.1:26] [Tk]
Source Details:
Lesson, RenŽ Primevre, 1839. Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par order du Gouvernement sur la Corvette La Coquille, Tome Second. Paris. P. Pourrat Frres, editeurs
’sŽjour au Port-Jackson ... du 17 janvier 1824 au 20 mars suivant’
==================================
KVS notes:
Lesson (1794-1849) was a medical officer, then pharmacist in charge of the Rochedfort Botanical Gardens. assistant surgeon on the corvette la Coquille under Louis Isadore Duperry.
------------------
The printed version of the list contains many errors when compared with the holograph copy of Lesson’s original journal now in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
(HOLOGRAPH COPY: Voyage de la Coquille. Journal du manuscript ... partie du Voyage de la Coquille. RŽdigŽ par Lesson ... Holograph copy. B1298, vol. 2: pp. 888-890, ML.
Some Lachlan River words have been ascribed to Port Jackson in the printed version. [KVS]
==================================
JS LIST LOCATION
Photocopied pages from 238 to 297 in Sydney Aboriginal Early Readings folder;
includes a wordlist on p. 296-97, also included in Word Lists A-L ringbinder.
Comment:
MEANING DOUBTFUL: ‘galara’ mostly means ‘angry’;
PROB. COMMUNICATION ERROR
Hale: Sydney gives ‘water’ (could be moon reflected in the water’;
Long Dick 3.1:11 gives ‘White Crane ’ (Possibly flying in front of the moon)