Skip to main content
Back to Home
  • Home
  • Search
  • Glossary

bite

Language: 
Sydney
Australian: 
Dieny
English JS Main: 
bite
English: 
To bite
Category: 
fauna: activity
Source: 
SofM 18970531 [123.4: Suttor-BB]
Page: 
123
Line: 
54
Respelt: 
diny
Part of speech: 
verb
Date: 
1897.5
Meaning Clue: 
dyu-ra = ‘A musquito’: [c:24:20] dyurugun = ‘Sharp ‘: Mathews DWL + Kml 1903 [278.4:6] [DWL] ‘Teura-dieny’: dyura dyiny = ‘Mosquito bite’: King MS [399:17]; dyura-dyang = ‘Bite of ditto [musquito]’: [c:24:21] ‘Dien’: dyiny = ‘To bite’: Suttor, 31.5.1897 [123:54] --------------------- duru-li-gu = ‘to pierce, prick, stab, sting, lance, spear.’: Tkld AWA Aust Voc [62:49.2] [AWA] dhara-di = ‘Sting or break skin’: Mathews: 8006/3/7- Nbk 7 [5:36] [Dark]; dura = ‘kill’: Threlkeld, L.E.: Karree, c.1835 [140:26] [Kre] dhura = ‘to pinch’: [b:5:2] dhura-dyá-wai = ‘I have struck’: Southwell [149.1:29.2]; dura-lang = ‘To prick’: King in Hunter [408.2:12]
Source Details: 
Science of Man: 31 May 189, p. 123 Suttor, J.B.: Aust Anthrop J LINGUISTICS [4 languages] Columns for: "1. Mulligan River dialect, supplied by A. Fraser, Esq. (2) "2. Johnstone River dialect, supplied byHenry Matheson, Esq. (2) "3. Bellinger River dialect, supplied by W.R. Harper, Esq. "4. Port Jackson dialect, supplied by J.B. Suttor, Esq. (2) PROBABLE SOURCE: The entries seem predominantly to come from King. ------------------- JS LIST LOCATION: lime green SofM ringbinder
Comment: 
King in Hunter 410.1:26 ’Teura-dieny’

Contact Indigenous Team

E: info.koori@sl.nsw.gov.au
T: +61 2 9273 1577
F: +61 2 9273 1269

Contact Jeremy Steele

W: aboriginallanguages.com

Hosted by
logo contact