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Balgowla

Language: 
Sydney
Australian: 
Balgowla
English JS Main: 
Balgowla
English: 
Balgowla Township
Category: 
place: Harbour: NE
Source: 
Larmer [Mitchell pprs]
Page: 
420
Line: 
14.1
Respelt: 
Balga-la
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1853
Meaning Clue: 
‘Bulga’: bulga = ’hill’: Mathews: 8006/3/5- Nbk 5 [111:2] [DG] ‘bulga’: balga = ‘hill’: KAOL Rowley GeoR [105:17] [DgR] ‘bulka’: balga’ = ‘the back of the hand or body; any hill of mountain; a protuberance’: Awaba [204:39] [AWA] ‘Bolgar’: balga = ’hill’: Kre [132.2:14.1] [KRE] ‘Boolga’: bulga’ = ‘Green’: King MS [404:12] [BB]
Source Details: 
Larmer, James, 1853: Native Names of Points and Islands in Port Jackson. Sir T.L.Mitchell Papers, v. 8. Mitchell Library, A295, Part 3, pp 419, 420 32 ENTRIES: THIS IS A HANDWRITTEN LIST, IN A THIN HAND ============= SEE ALSO LARMER, James: 1834 Larmer, J. (1898). "Native Vocabulary of Miscellaneous New South Wales Objects." Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales XXII: 223-229. ================================== FROM INTERNET: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/cguide/sy/surgen13.htm 21. Larmer's native vocabulary notebook and correspondence, 1834-53, CGS 13947 (Kingswood SZ1002; copy of Larmer's Native Vocabulary held by the Mitchell Library at SR Reel 3723). 1 bundle. This bundle contains a rough draft of Larmer's work, in addition to his correspondence with J. Thompson, Assistant Deputy Surveyor General. There is also a small bound volume of 'Native Vocabulary', which gives the Aboriginal names of land marks in Port Jackson and the English translations for many Aboriginal words. ============== JS LIST LICATION: Aboriginal Word Lists Rinbinder A-L, under LARMER

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