Bananda
Boundary of the Warri (west) people.
Boundary of the Warri (west) people.
the word as shared with related languages indicates that banggara may be the land inherited through ones father.related languages include Kaurna, Nukunu and Ngadjuri.
banyari is also recorded, showing the Nharangga plural-ending ri for a few or many.
- although Tindale translates this as native peach, this does not appear to be correct.- some say that barabara does not mean quandong at all; others suggest that it could possibly be a specific kind of quandong.
- this is also recorded as West Cape, Section 26b, Hundred of Warrenben.- the literal meaning of this word is not certain. One suggestion is plenty of meat (Tindale) and another camp meeting (writer unknown), but neither of these matches the words in Nharangga records. However, either could be a description of how the place was used, rather than the literal meaning of the word.- probably the warli ending means house/camp (wardli).
- the word shared with related languages indicates that this may have developed from a longer, repeating word, such as bari-bari.- Tindale suggests a literal meaning of skin. However, this idea seems to rely on related language records, as in Nharangga the word for skin, has an l: barlba.- related languages include Kaurna, Nukunu and Ngadjuri.