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spear-thrower

Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
womra
English JS Main: 
spear-thrower
English: 
Spear-thrower
Category: 
weapons and parts
Sub-category: 
spear-thrower
Source: 
Mathews DG 1901
Page: 
159.2
Line: 
25
Respelt: 
wumara
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1901
Meaning Clue: 
’wuma’ = ‘to run’: Fulton AONSW [23:8]; ’wumara’ = ‘Spear-thrower’: RHM Dg in Dwl [159.2:25]; ’wœma-ra’ = ‘To run as an animal. To fly as a spear or bird. Also the throwing stick’: [b:22:7] ------------------ ’mara-li-gu’ = ‘to run’: Awaba [60:33] ’mana’ = to run: M&E [Gga] [266:12.2]; ’mani’ = ‘Run’: Mathews: Ngunawal, 1904 [305:10]; ================ wa = MOVE; ma = CAUS; ra = away [?]
Source Details: 
Mathews, R.H: ’Dharruk’ extract from ’The Thurrawal Language’: Read before the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, Nov. 6, 1901, Vol. XXXV, pp. 155-160 Consists of 2 pages of grammar and a 3.3 page wordlist. ================ JS LIST LOCATION: Mathews SOUTH ringbinder

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