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thistle

Language: 
NSW COAST
Australian: 
Galu-nur
English JS Main: 
thistle
English: 
Chardon dont ils mangent les racines
Category: 
flora
Source: 
Lesson, R.P.
Page: 
297
Line: 
36
Respelt: 
galu-nur
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1824
Meaning Clue: 
‘Kalângara’ galangara = ’brush cherry’: Brown, Robert: Broken Bay [121:3] [NrN] ‘Calangara’ galan-Gara = ‘Blue Gum’: Caley’s Botanical Work [225:35] [DG] ‘Callun’ galan = ‘(grass-tree stalk)’: Hunter Sketch Book [69:2] [BB]
Source Details: 
Lesson, RenŽ Primevre, 1839. Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par order du Gouvernement sur la Corvette La Coquille, Tome Second. Paris. P. Pourrat Frres, editeurs ’sŽjour au Port-Jackson ... du 17 janvier 1824 au 20 mars suivant’ ================================== 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. ------------------ 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] ================================== 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.
Comment: 
cf ‘galan’ = ‘grass-tree spear’ (Hunter Sketch Book"69:2); various other plant words start with gala- inluding ‘gulangara’ (Lang and Caley) ’galangara’ = Brush Cherry: French Catalogue, 1855 ---------- ’chardon’ = thistle

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