yarraman

Meaning

horse

Synonyms

equidae

equine

horses

pommel horse

sawhorse

trestle

equid

horsie

foot ropes

Translations

خيل

cavall

🐴

Einhufer

Ferd

Gaul

🐴

άλογο

ίππος

ίππος/άλογο

équidé

cavallo

🐴

equino

🐴

equidi

hesp

🐴

mannus

حصان

🐴

Etymology

Uncertain. Suspected to be from an Australian language of coastal New South Wales, but the term was used by white settlers as a pidgin for communicating with the indigenous people and was rapidly adopted into their languages (preceding actual arrival of horses in some cases), making an origin difficult to ascertain. Each may well have believed they were using the other's word! (Reference: R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN.)