Arandan.adj.
/əˈrandə/, U.S. /əˈrændə/ A. n.
1. An Aboriginal people of central Australia; a member of this people.
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Kamilaroi1856
Wiradjuri1884
Aranda1891
Tiwi1930
Pintupi1933
Kurnai1965
1891 W. H. Willshire Aborigines of Central Australia iv. 16 The ‘Aralta’ draw peculiar designs on flat upright rocks.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 947/1 The Aruntas..believe that local spirits of trees..enter women as they pass by their haunts.
1927 Spencer & Gillen (title) The Arunta: a study of a Stone Age people.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 3 The Aranda of Central Australia practise sub~incision.
2. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Australian Aboriginal > [noun] > Australian languages
Kamilaroi1856
Wiradjuri1894
Dyirbal1910
Tiwi1930
Murngin1931
Pintupi1933
Nyungar1939
Aranda1956
Kurnai1965
1956 J. Whatmough Lang. ii. 33 Aranta in Australia, which has practically no formally distinctive ‘parts of speech’.
B. adj.
Pertaining to this people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective] > specific peoples
Wiradjuri1884
Pitta-Pitta1886
Aranda1896
Dyirbal1910
Kurnai1911
Pintupi1933
Tasmanoid1938
1896 W. B. Spencer Horn Sci. Exped. Central Austral. 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.
1959 S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time iii. 29 The Aranda tribes and..their language, ways, customs, ceremonies and myths.
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