orphan
→
Coracina novaehollandiae
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Gamilaraay | |
| Lexeme | gunidjaa | |
| Meaning 1 | orphan (motherless child) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | black-faced cuckooshrike | |
| Reference | Ash et al. 2003: 96 | |
| Comment | The grey bird with a black face is like a child covered in clay or ash, mourning its dead parent or mother. Arthur Dodd said: ‘Gunidjaa — you can hear them naming themselves like that.’ |
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