thigh
Language:
Australian:
Dˆr-a
English JS Main:
thigh
English:
The Thigh
Category:
body parts and products
Sub-category:
limbs
Source:
Tench
Page:
231
Line:
9.2
Respelt:
dara
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1793
Meaning Clue:
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]
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dhara = ‘Teeth’ : Lang: N.S.W. Vocabulary, c.1840 [1:15]
dhara = ‘Teeth’ : Southwell [147.3:24]
dara = ‘Teeth’ : King MS [403:7]
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’dara’ = tooth: Anon [Syd]; Mathews: Darkinyung, 1903
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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:
THIS IS THE ‘Name at the Hawkesbury’