Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. eBook

John MacGillivray
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 347 pages of information about Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850..

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. eBook

John MacGillivray
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 347 pages of information about Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850..

To complete the evidence for this latter word being the same as the m-r of the other dialects and languages, it would be necessary to show, by examples, how the sounds of m and w interchange; and also to show (by example also) how the ideas of elbow, forearm, and hand do so.  But as the present remarks are made for the sake of illustrating a method, rather than establishing any particular point, this is not necessary here; a few instances taken from the names of the parts of the human body being sufficient to show the general distribution of some of the commoner Australian roots; and the more special fact of their existence in the northern dialects: 

English :  hand. 
Peel River :  ma. 
Terrutong :  manawiye. 
Raffles Bay :  maneiya.

...

English :  foot. 
Moreton Bay :  chidna. 
Moreton Island :  tenang. 
Karaula :  tinna. 
Lake Macquarie :  tina. 
Peel River :  tina. 
Jhongworong :  gnen-ong-gnat-a. 
Mudje :  dina. 
Wellington :  dinnung. 
Corio :  gen-ong-gnet-ok. 
Liverpool :  dana. 
Bathurst :  dina. 
Colack :  ken-ong-gnet-ok. 
Boraipar :  tchin-nang-y
Lake Hindmarsh :  jin-nerr. 
Bight Head :  jinna. 
Parnkalla :  idna. 
Murrumbidje :  tjin-nuk. 
Aiawong :  dtun. 
King George Sound :  tian. 
Molonglo :  jin-y-gy. 
Pinegorine :  gena. 
Goold Island :  pinyun and pinkan. 
Gnurellean :  gen-ong-be-gnen-a.

...

English :  hair, beard. 
Goold Island :  kiaram. 
Moreton Island :  yerreng. 
Wellington :  uran. 
Karaula :  yerry. 
Bijenelumbo :  yirka. 
Sydney :  yaren. 
Regent’s Lake :  ooran. 
Peel River :  ierai. 
Lake Macquarie :  wurung. 
Mudje :  yarai.

...

English :  eye. 
Jhongworong :  mer-ing-gna-ta. 
Moreton Island :  mel. 
Pinegorine :  ma. 
Moreton Bay :  mill. 
Gnurellean :  mer-e-gnen-a. 
Gudang :  emeri = eyebrow. 
Boraipar :  mer-ring-y. 
Lake Hindmarsh :  mer. 
Bijenelumbo :  merde = eyelid. 
Regent’s Lake :  mil. 
Lake Mundy :  meer-rang. 
Karaula :  mil. 
Murrumbidje :  mil. 
Mudje :  mir. 
Corio :  mer-gnet-ok. 
Bight Head :  mail. 
Colack :  mer-gnen-ok. 
King George Sound :  mial. 
Dautgart :  mer-gna-nen.

...

English :  tooth. 
Sydney :  yera. 
Moreton Island :  tiya. 
Wellington :  irang. 
Murrumbidje :  yeeran. 
Moreton Bay :  deer. 
Lake Macquarie :  tina. 
Goold Island :  eera.

...

English :  tongue. 
Lake Macquarie :  talan. 
Moreton Bay :  dalan. 
Regent’s Lake :  talleng. 
Sydney :  dalan. 
Karaula :  talley. 
Peel River :  tale. 
Goold Island :  talit. 
King George Sound :  talien.

...

English :  ear. 
Moreton Bay :  bidna. 
Kowrarega :  kowra. 
Karaula :  binna. 
Sydney :  kure. 
Peel River :  bine. 
Liverpool :  kure. 
Bathurst :  benang-arei. 
Lake Macquarie :  ngureong. 
Goold Island :  pinna.

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