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List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin

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This is a list of English words derived fromAustralian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted toAustralian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such askangaroo andboomerang, have become widely used in othervarieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.

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Flora and fauna

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Environment

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  • billabong
  • bombora (rapids–often used to describe offshore reef breaks)
  • boondie (hardened clump of sand; Noongar, W.A.[3])
  • gilgai
  • lerp (crystallized honeydew produced by larvae of psyllid bugs, gathered as food)
  • min-min lights (ground-level lights of uncertain origin sometimes seen in remote rural Australia)
  • willy willy (dust devil)

Aboriginal culture

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Describing words

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  • Koori - Aboriginal people from Victoria and New South Wales
  • cooee
  • Nunga - Aboriginal people from South Australia
  • Murri - Aboriginal people from Queensland
  • Noongar - Aboriginal people from southern Western Australia
  • Palawa - Aboriginal people from Tasmania
  • yarndi (slang term formarijuana)[6]

Place names

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Main article:List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin

Names

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English words often falsely assumed to be of Australian Aboriginal origin

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References

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Slang - Australian Government Website

  1. ^abc"Learn English: Borrowed Indigenous Australian words".ABC Education.Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 July 2018. Retrieved3 April 2019.
  2. ^"Australian slang - a story of Australian English". Government of Australia. Archived fromthe original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved30 April 2017.
  3. ^"The Perth Files: Bull ants, 'boondies', bogans and bore water". 13 April 2006.
  4. ^abcdefghiEdward Ellis Morris (1896).Morris's Dictionary of Australian Words.
  5. ^"Learn English: Borrowed Indigenous Australian words".ABC Education.Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 July 2018. Retrieved3 April 2019.
  6. ^"Yarndi within the community".Australian Drug Foundation. Retrieved14 January 2019.
  7. ^Satpathy, Sumanyu (30 September 2017)."A tea party with Topiwalla and Alice".The Hindu.ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved19 June 2019.
  8. ^Wassilieff, Maggy."Cockabully".Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved24 September 2021.
  9. ^J. Simpson; E. Weiner, eds. (1989). "cockatoo".Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.
  10. ^Macquarie Dictionary (2nd ed.). Macquarie University. 1991. p. 1220.ISBN 0-949757-63-2.

Further reading

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For a list of words relating to withAustralian Aboriginal language origins, see theAustralian Aboriginal derivations category of words inWiktionary, the free dictionary.

Australian Aboriginal Words in English: their origin and meaning, Dixon, R.M.W., Moore, Bruce, Ramson, W.S., and Thomas, Mandy (2006), Oxford University Press, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ISBN 9780195540734

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