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Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
burrakutti
English JS Main: 
white
English: 
White
Category: 
colour
Source: 
Mathews DG 1901
Page: 
159.2
Line: 
42
Respelt: 
bara-ga-di
Part of speech: 
noun adjective
Date: 
1901
Meaning Clue: 
‘bar-gat bar-ga-d = ‘Afraid, frightened’: Collins 1 [508.1:10] [BB] ‘... bárakŸt’ bára-ga-d = ‘Why are you afraid ...’ Dawes [b:32:10.1] [BB] ‘burrakutti’ bara-ga-di = ‘White’: Mathews 1901 [159.2:42] [DG] ’bura-ga yan-na’ = :’Get up & walk (with me)’ [RHM Nbk 5: 112:12]; ’bura-ga’ = ‘Arise’ [Mathews: Dharruk in Thurrawal, 1901: 160.2:5] ================ bura --> rise bur-ba-nga = help someone up;
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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