barrm

Woiwurrung

Alternative forms

Noun

barrm

  1. yam (the root so called)[2]
    • "When they dug up yams they roasted some for themselves and gave the raw one to Waa (the crow). By and bye Waa found a cooked one. He said “Hallo! They give me only raw ones” (Mŭrnŭng barm)"[1]
  2. yam daisy[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://howittandfison.org/document/hw0391/31
  2. ^ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/The_aborigines_of_Victoria_-_with_notes_relating_to_the_habits_of_the_natives_of_other_parts_of_Australia_and_Tasmania_%28IA_b24885228_0002%29.pdf
  3. ^ https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/Wurundjeri%20Visitors%20Guide.pdf

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Etymology

From Middle English barme, from Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“yeast; barm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barm/

Noun

barrm

  1. barm

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 24
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