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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 07:28:33 EST
Subject: loans
... just like the Australian situation, as you say.
Minor correction: kangaroo actually comes from Gugu Yimithirr from Cook's
1770 landfall at Endeavour River on eastern Cape York, then spread by the
colonists at Sydney from 1788.
Other examples from Eora/Dharuk (the Massachusett of Australia!) are gin (as
you have), dingo, koala, wallaby, wombat, boomerang, woomera, corroboree,
cooee.
A good reference on the topic is Dixon, RMW, WS Ramson & M Thomas. 1991.
_Aboriginal Words in Australian English_. OUP.