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scholarly articlemccarthy-1961-boomerang
The Boomerang
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Frederick D. McCarthy
- YEAR
- 1961
- PUBLISHER
- The Australian Museum Magazine
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- scholarly article
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANK 61GRADE Asupports
Its most famous behavior is not universal—and even its exact donor language is unsettled.
Many hunting and fighting boomerangs do not return. Dharug and Dharawal sources have been proposed, while ANU keeps the exact language unresolved.
bumarin
bumarin → boomerang
p. 343 — hunting and fighting boomerangs do not returnDirectly rejects the all-boomerangs-return misconception.
boomerang dossier ↗truth record ↗88UNVEILING
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opencontextproposed
Which Aboriginal language supplied boomerang?
Dharug bumarin and a Dharawal bou-mar-rang form are published candidates, but the Australian National Dictionary Centre says the exact source language remains uncertain.
p. 343 — Turuwal bou-mar-ang; returning and non-returning typesSupplies the published Dharawal or Turuwal candidate form and documents the object’s returning and non-returning types.
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EDGE 325supportsproposed
boomerang → bou-mar-rang
Present-Day English → Dharawal · competing borrowing
- SOUND
- English boomerang is compared with the recorded Turuwal or Dharawal form bou-mar-ang; early colonial spellings vary substantially.
- MEANING
- An Aboriginal Australian returning-club name is proposed as the source of the English object word.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Frederick D. McCarthy · Australian National Dictionary Centre
p. 343 — Turuwal bou-mar-angPublishes the competing Dharawal or Turuwal candidate form.
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