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Wombat

2 stages from Dharug to English.

Today it means a stocky, burrowing marsupial native to Australia
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Stage 1 of 2
wambad
Dharug · 1790s
"the wombat"
the name for the stocky, burrowing marsupial
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Stage 2 of 2
wombat
English · 1798
"a stocky, burrowing Australian marsupial"
adopted directly by British settlers and naturalists
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