Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors

barn owl

Semantic Field
flora-fauna
Part of Speech
Meaning Spanish
Meaning Portuguese

Languages

Language Linnean Name Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Etymology Notes Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Range of Term Word Structure Word Structure Notes Classifier Classifier Notes Hypernym Source Association with Social Categories Ritual/Mythologically Significant Ritual Notes Food Source Food Notes Medicinal Medicinal Notes How Collected Who Collects How Prepared Psychotropic Psychotropic Notes Traded Trade Notes Distribution Habitat Dangerous Ethnobiology Notes Species Notes General Notes
Bardi Tyto alba wiraj wiraj loan Marrngu? underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Bunuba Tyto alba duwumbu duwumbu loan into protolanguage tumpu Bunuban Worrorran also in Kija WW %dumbi underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Burarra Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Dhangu Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Dhay’yi Tyto alba missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Dhuwal Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Djinang Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Gajirrabeng Tyto alba riyirrng riyirrng boobook owl unique underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Gooniyandi Tyto alba dumbu dumbu loan into protolanguage tumpi Bunuban Worrorran WW %dumbi underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Gumatj Tyto alba missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Gupapuyngu Tyto alba dolpurrk (type of) dolpurrk (type of) Barn Owl unknown 0 0 0 0 0 no
Gurindji Tyto alba kurrkutji kurrkutji loan with meaning change Jarragan meaning in Jarragan 'tawny Frogmouth' WW %kurrkurr underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Guugu Yimidhirr Tyto alba thiwaay & bunyja & nguurrgu thiwaay & buñja & nguurrgu night owl (sp[presumed barn owl]) & night owl (sp [presumed small]) & night owl (sp) inheritance *ciwa pEastern Poss. pPNy. underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Jaru Tyto alba gurrgurr gurrgurr loan Jarragan mixed up with Tawny Frogmouth WW %kurrkurr uncoded 0 0 0 0 0 no
Jingulu Tyto alba ngatyakurra ngatyakurra unknown underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Karajarri Tyto alba wiraju wiraju inheritance underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Kija Tyto alba tumpuny tumpuny loan Worrorra WW %dumbi underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Koko-Bera Tyto alba CHIW; MINY- MIÑ-CIW BARN OWL, TYTO ALBA inheritance *ciwa pPama-Maric Poss. pPama-Nyungan; attested in Pitta-Pitta & Duungidjawu. Poss. sound-symbolism problem (see YYoront entry) simplex
Kuku-Thaypan Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Kuku-Yalanji Tyto alba yiki & kalkuy & julurr-julurr yiki & kalkuy & julurr-julurr unique underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Kurtjar Tyto alba liyoerk.ingkuath liyoerk.ingkuath unique Syn. (?) ngookingok < pPNy (?) *nguku, sound-symbolic, prob. loan compound Prob. < eel 'eye' + yeerk 'flash' + ngkuath 'big' (but full stop marks what follows as suffixial); syn. (?) ngookingok is redupl. eeny 0 0 0 0 0 no
Kuuk Thaayorre Tyto alba pu(u)lapurr; minh- pu(u)lapurr; minh- unique compound ?? 0 0 0 0 0 no
Mangala Tyto alba milmankatyi unique missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Mbabaram Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Miriwung Tyto alba mun.gawung mun.gawung unknown underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Ngandi Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Ngarinyin Tyto alba murrarrun murrarrun unknown proto-Worrorran Mirriwoong? uncoded 0 0 0 0 0 no
Ngumbarl Tyto alba tcheerwel tcheerwel inheritance underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Nyangumarta Tyto alba wirraju wirraju inheritance underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Nyikina Tyto alba dyoli dyoli unknown underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Pakanh Tyto alba kiiwi; minha kiiwi; minha unknown underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Rembarrnga Tyto alba gorrppoh gorrppoh barn owl unknown 0 0 0 0 0 no
Ritharrngu Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Tjaapukay Tyto alba gudjugudju kucukucu night owl unique reduplicated 0 0 0 0 0 no
Uw-Olkol Tyto alba iwa; inh inh-iwa barn owl, Tyto alba inheritance *ciwa pPama-Nyungan The protoform as reconstructed could possibly be imitative of the conventionalised call as in YYoront [syiw, ...] underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Uw-Oykangand Tyto alba iw; inh inh-iw barn owl, Tyto alba inheritance *ciwa pPama-Nyungan The protoform as reconstructed could possibly be imitative of the conventionalised call as in YYoront [syiw, ...] underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Wardaman Tyto alba guyarru guyarru unknown uncoded 0 0 0 0 0 no
Warlpiri Tyto alba purluwanti purluwanti inheritance shared with Warlmanpa; not in Ngumpin underived 0 0 0 0 0 no
Wik Ngathan Tyto alba thiiw thiiw owl sp inheritance *ciwa pPama-Nyungan Attested from northern CYP to Karnic; name imitative of conventionalized call (voiceless [syiw]), poss. accounting for anomalous length in WNgathan underived minh 0 0 0 0 0 no
Worrorra Tyto alba dumbi dumbi doubtful loan proto-Worrorran Gooniyandi %TUMPI Gooniyandi too far but others are barely closer eg Jarragan WW %dumbi uncoded 0 0 0 0 0 no
Wunambal Tyto alba je.warr unknown proto-Worrorran 0 0 0 0 0 no
Yan-nhangu Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Yawuru Tyto alba missing wiraj unique missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Yidiny Tyto alba missing missing missing 0 0 0 0 0 no
Yir-Yoront Tyto alba thiw; minh- minh-thiw inheritance *ciwa pPama-Nyungan Poss. imitative of call, conventionally voiceless [syiw] underived 0 0 0 0 0 no