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Kangaroo

2 stages from Guugu Yimithirr to English.

Today it means a large hopping marsupial native to Australia
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Stage 1 of 2
gangurru
Guugu Yimithirr · 1770s
"a large grey kangaroo"
the name for a species of large grey kangaroo, recorded by Captain Cook's expedition
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Stage 2 of 2
kangaroo
English · 1770
"a large hopping marsupial"
adopted directly and broadened to the whole family of hopping marsupials
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