hatchet
Language:
NSW COAST
Australian:
Ori-al
English JS Main:
hatchet
English:
Haches de pierre
Category:
weapons and parts
Sub-category:
hatchet
Source:
Lesson, R.P.
Page:
297
Line:
39.2
Respelt:
wåri-yal
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1824
Meaning Clue:
guriyil = ‘a shield.’: Tkld AWA Aust Voc [54:17] [AWA] also [Tk, Biripi, Wnra]
‘wu(r-rai-i(l’ warayil = ‘a stone tomahawk’: Mathews 8006/3/7/ - CRITERION [38:9] [XXX]
Source Details:
Lesson, RenŽ Primevre, 1839. Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par order du Gouvernement sur la Corvette La Coquille, Tome Second. Paris. P. Pourrat Frres, editeurs
’sŽjour au Port-Jackson ... du 17 janvier 1824 au 20 mars suivant’
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KVS notes:
Lesson (1794-1849) was a medical officer, then pharmacist in charge of the Rochedfort Botanical Gardens. assistant surgeon on the corvette la Coquille under Louis Isadore Duperry.
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The printed version of the list contains many errors when compared with the holograph copy of Lesson’s original journal now in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
(HOLOGRAPH COPY: Voyage de la Coquille. Journal du manuscript ... partie du Voyage de la Coquille. RŽdigŽ par Lesson ... Holograph copy. B1298, vol. 2: pp. 888-890, ML.
Some Lachlan River words have been ascribed to Port Jackson in the printed version. [KVS]
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JS LIST LOCATION
Photocopied pages from 238 to 297 in Sydney Aboriginal Early Readings folder;
includes a wordlist on p. 296-97, also included in Word Lists A-L ringbinder.