yehangeree-py

Updated: May 22, 2025

In three instances I found a similarity. When inquiry was made after the axe, the natives replied 'yehangeree-py, making signs of beating, and py signifies to beat in the Port Jackson language.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02

In three instances I found a similarity. When inquiry was made after the axe, the natives replied 'yehangeree-py, making signs of beating, and py signifies to beat in the Port Jackson language.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete