shell shell
Language:
Sydney
Australian:
Birrur Birah
English JS Main:
shell shell
English:
Sow and Pigs
Category:
place: Harbour: islands
Source:
Larmer [Mitchell pprs]
Page:
419
Line:
14
Respelt:
Bira-bira
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1853
Meaning Clue:
‘Berá’: birá = ‘fish hook’: Dawes [b:17:12.1] [BB]
‘berara’: bira-ra = ‘some fish hooks (or the shells’: Dawes [b:29:14.2] [BB]
‘Bir-ra-bir-ra’: Bira-bira = ‘The rock in the channel’: Anon [c:38:6] [BB]
‘Birrur Birah’: Bira-bira = ‘Sow and Pigs’: Larmer HARBOUR 1853 [419:14] [BB]
‘Birra-birragal-leon’: Bira-bira-galyån = ‘Her tribe’ (’Gony-ar-a’): Anon [c:5:13] [BB]
‘Bur-ra’: bara = ‘A fish-hook’: King in Hunter [407.2:2] [BB]
‘bur-ra’: bara = ‘A hook’: Collins 1 [507.2:1] [BB]
‘bur-ra’: bara = ‘Fish Hook’: Southwell [147.2:29] [BB]
‘barra’: bara = ‘a fish hook’: Bowman: Camden [21:119] [DG?]
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
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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.
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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.
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