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30 Dec 05 - 07:31 AM (#1637259) Subject: BS: Is a Yarraman an Austrlian horse? From: Mo the caller My crossword clue says "Impressive collbacked by chap with Australian horse (8) array backed = yarra chap = man google tells me there are Austrlian towns Yarra & Yarraman but is it also a horse? |
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30 Dec 05 - 07:35 AM (#1637262) Subject: RE: BS: Is a Yarraman an Austrlian horse? From: alanabit I don't know. But it's the only bloody thing that makes sense in the crossword! |
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30 Dec 05 - 07:38 AM (#1637264) Subject: RE: BS: Is a Yarraman an Austrlian horse? From: GUEST,Googler There ya go! |
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30 Dec 05 - 07:44 AM (#1637269) Subject: RE: BS: Is a Yarraman an Austrlian horse? From: Mo the caller Thanks, maybe I used Wiki not google before |
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30 Dec 05 - 08:11 AM (#1637281) Subject: RE: BS: Is a Yarraman an Austrlian horse? From: GUEST,A Yarraman is also a word for 'wild horse'. I admire poeple who are diligent regarding crosswords. I would like to think I don't have the patience but it might be due to intellect also. |
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31 Dec 05 - 12:34 AM (#1637991) Subject: RE: BS: Is a Yarraman an Austrlian horse? From: Bob Bolton 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 |