G'day Mo the caller (et al),

"Yarraman" is long established in English - Aboriginal interchanges as "horse" ... but is hard to pin down to a specific indigenous language. It starts off early in the British settlement ... but with the British thinking it was a broadly used Aboriginal word and most language groups assuming it was the English word!

It is probably "yiraman" from an Aboriginal language south of the first settlement in the Sydney area ... meaning "long teeth" ... but these Indigenous groups bore the brunt of dispossession, disease and displacement of their hunter/gatherer territories ... and we can't draw on any surviving local language-speakers.

Regards,

Bob