Gurindji

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Etymology

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From Mudburra.

Noun

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jangana

  1. possum

Usage notes

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Generally refers to the Australian marsupial, not the American opossum.

References

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  • Patrick McConvell. 2009. Gurindji vocabulary.

In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 1028entries. (Available online at http://wold.clld.org/vocabulary/31, Accessed on 2022-05-03.)