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  2. List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages.Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. . Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond En

  3. Australian English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Boomerang is an Australian word which has moved into International English. It was also borrowed from Dharug. [4] ... "spew" is synonym for "vomit"). [27] [28] See.

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Gia people - Wikipedia

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    Although Ngaro is given as a synonym for Gia, and vice versa, it appears that the Ngaro people inhabited the Whitsunday Islands. ... wangalla (boomerang) [9] Notes

  6. List of premodern combat weapons - Wikipedia

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    Clubbing boomerang (Worldwide) Returning boomerang (Australian) Cambuk (Southeast Asian) Canne de combat (European) Chúi (Chinese) Club, baseball bat, stone club, truncheon, cudgel, bludgeon; Crop (Worldwide) Bastons, Eskrima Sticks, straight sticks (Southeast Asian) Flail (European) Gada (Indian) Gunstock war club also thrown (American)

  7. Throw stick (hieroglyph) - Wikipedia

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    The word seems to refer to the fact that the throw stick can return-(boomerang), and thus the word opposite. Iconographic use: from palettes to the marshland

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  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...