dunnart
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Nyunga danard (“Sminthopsis griseoventer”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dunnart (plural dunnarts)
- Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
- 2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158:
- After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.
- 2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:
- During the original AWC survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.
- 2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7:
- Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.
Derived terms edit
- Butler's dunnart
- chestnut dunnart
- common dunnart
- fat-tailed dunnart
- Gilbert's dunnart
- greater hairy-footed dunnart
- grey-bellied dunnart
- Julia Creek dunnart
- Kakadu dunnart
- large long-tailed dunnart
- lesser hairy-footed dunnart
- little long-tailed dunnart
- Ooldea dunnart
- red-cheeked dunnart
- sandhill dunnart
- stripe-faced dunnart
- white-footed dunnart
- white-tailed dunnart
Translations edit
marsupial of the genus Sminthopsis
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See also edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English dunnart, from Nyunga danard (“probably Sminthopsis griseoventer”).
Noun edit
dunnart m (genitive singular dunnairt, nominative plural dunnairt)
Declension edit
Declension of dunnart
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
dunnart | dhunnart | ndunnart |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |