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Aranda, n. and a.|əˈrændə|
Also Aranta, Arunta, † Aralta.
[Native name.]
A. n.
1. An aboriginal people of central Australia; a member of this people.
2. The language of this people.
B. adj. Pertaining to this people or their language.
1891W. H. Willshire Aborigines of Central Australia iv. 16 The ‘Aralta’ draw peculiar designs on flat upright rocks. 1896W. B. Spencer Horn Sci. Exped. Central Australia I. i. 39 These natives belong to the Arunta tribe, which occupies a large tract of land stretching from the Macumba Creek in the south to about seventy miles north of Alice Springs. 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 947/1 The Aruntas..believe that local spirits of trees..enter women as they pass by their haunts. 1927Spencer & Gillen (title) The Arunta: a study of a Stone Age people. 1951R. Firth Elem. Soc. Organiz. i. 3 The Aranda of Central Australia practise sub⁓incision. 1956J. Whatmough Lang. ii. 33 Aranta in Australia, which has practically no formally distinctive ‘parts of speech’. 1959S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time iii. 29 The Aranda tribes and..their language, ways, customs, ceremonies and myths. |