Contact Us. Comment Policy We also welcome direct feedback via APE-073-0001-0001. Road sign, Boulia. (Entry 2 of 2). Placenames are obvious ones - the general rule being if it ends in '-dah/-da' or '-bah/-ba', it is an Aboriginal word meaning 'place of'; examples include Pinkenba = 'place of long-necked turtle', Elimbah = 'place of grey snake'. Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). Possibly, the most popular Aboriginal loanwords are plants and animals which are now in everyday use. As part of State Library's commitment to the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, we…, Welcome to Week One of the A-Z of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages!…, Wednesday 2 September is Indigenous Literacy Day which is focussed on improving literacy levels in…, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages: Word of the Week - Week Twenty-Nine. REF 919.43 1963, Queensland Railways (1914) Nomenclature of Queensland Railway Stations. Comment Policy Existing, born, or produced in a land or region: Having alluded to the subject of reversion, I may here refer to a statement often made by naturalists--namely, that our domestic varieties, when run wild, gradually but certainly revert in character to their, A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the, The government of the United States began to view with a wary eye the growing influence thus acquired by combinations of foreigners, over the, There was some heathenish, coffin-colored old lumber aboard, which, upon a long previous voyage, had been cut from the, At the Sandwich Islands and at two or three of the Society group, there are now thriving colonies of these insects, who promise ere long to supplant altogether the, The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and, “The blood, too, of one of the native lords of the soil!” cried Elizabeth, who evidently put little faith in his, Flamands certainly they were, and both had the true Flamand physiognomy, where intellectual inferiority is marked in lines none can mistake; still they were men, and, in the main, honest men; and I could not see why their being. The Gupapuyŋu to English Dictionary contains over 4000 common words. RBQ 306.089 ROT, The Bloom of the Waratah, Queenslander - 3 November 1932. Regards, Des. You may also want to ask our librarians. The latest edition of the Australian National Dictionary (August 2016) includes over 500 words from 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Allowed HTML tags: