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Woolloomooloo

Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
Woolloomooloo
English JS Main: 
Woolloomooloo
English: 
what does it mean?
Category: 
place: Harbour: S
Source: 
Mathews: 8006/3/6- Nbk 4 [112.19ÐDharug]
Page: 
112.19
Line: 
2.1
Respelt: 
wulumulu
Meaning Clue: 
‘Wulla Mulla’: wala mala = ‘I have an indictinct recollection that it meant burial--ground or place of interment’ : Thornton, notes on the Aborigines {6:16] ------------------------------------- ‘Woolloomooloo’: wulumulu = ‘what does it mean?’ Mathews: 8006/3/6- Nbk 4 [112.19:2.1] ‘wallaba-mulla’: walaba mala = ‘buck wallaby’: Mathews: 8006/3/6- Nbk 4 [112.19:2.2]
Comment: 
’wala-ma-la’:

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