The Shocking Origin of the Word Kangaroo
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Is this really surprising? That the origin of the word comes from the original Australians not the coloniser English language
Hear, hear!
Yes, should be pretty obvious. Perhaps he should look around a a lot of our place names. The weird ones without “s”‘s are Aboriginal names. And there’s not enough of them in my opinion. Some of our very well known places, named after some very famous nefarious governing people a few hundred years ago, should also be renamed by our Indigenous people. Let’s start with Brisbane and Logan (2 that I know of – I’m sure there are a lot more) – two disgusting people who just happened to name places after themselves.
I thougt kangaroo means: I don’t understand you
That was from the movie arrival and it’s portrayed as a lie even in the movie.
@sebas11tian nice, thank you, for clarification, how could I not know this. I bet this is a very popular movie, and everyone in the world should be familiar with this information.
So what are you saying that kangaroo is a slightly mispronounced Australian word?
“large marsupial mammal of Australia,” 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks (who first reported the species to Europeans), supposedly representing a native word from northeast Queensland, Australia, but often said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon (“The Languages of Australia,” Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aboriginal language) /gaNurru/ “large black kangaroo.”