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thigh

Language: 
Dark Syd DG Dwl Ngwl
Australian: 
Darra
English JS Main: 
thigh
English: 
Cuisse
Category: 
body parts and products
Sub-category: 
limbs
Source: 
Lesson, R.P.
Page: 
297
Line: 
18
Respelt: 
dara
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1824
Meaning Clue: 
"Darra" dara = "Cuisse" thigh : Lesson, R.P. [:297:18] [Syd]
Source Details: 
Lesson, RenŽ Primevre, 1839. Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par order du Gouvernement sur la Corvette La Coquille, Tome Second. Paris. P. Pourrat Frres, 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: 
’dara’ = thigh: Mathews: Darkinyung, 1903, Tench (leg); Mathews: Dharruk in Thurrawal, 1901, Mathews: Kamilaroi/Thurrawal (Thurrawal), 1903; Mathews: Ngunawal, 1904

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