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Billabong

2 stages from Wiradjuri to English.

Today it means an isolated pool of water left behind when a river changes course
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Stage 1 of 2
bilabang
Wiradjuri · 1800s
"a dead-end waterway"
a stagnant pool left behind after a river changes course
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Stage 2 of 2
billabong
English · 1830s
"a stagnant pool of water left by a changing river"
adopted directly by settlers for the isolated pools of the Australian outback
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