List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
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Words of Australian Aboriginal origin, have entered many languages. Many such words have entered Australian English, and are considered native words. Some of those words have in turn been exported from Australian English to other branches of the English language and to other languages. For example: The accepted English common names of a number of species of animal and plant endemic to Australia are simply their Australian Aboriginal names.
Flora and fauna
- barramundi
- bilby
- bogong
- brolga
- budgerigar
- bunyip
- cunjevoi
- currawong
- dingo
- euro
- galah
- gidgee
- jarrah
- kangaroo
- koala
- kookaburra
- kurrajong
- marri
- mulga
- numbat
- pademelon
- quandong
- quoll
- taipan
- wallaby
- wallaroo
- warrigal
- witchetty grub
- wobbegong
- wombat
- yabby
Others
- billabong
- boomerang
- cooee
- corroboree
- gibber
- (a boulder)
- humpy
- (a hut)
- jackaroo - a cowboy, jack-of-all-trades+kangaroo to give it an Australian flavour.
- jillaroo - a cowgirl, from jack and jill went up the hill...
- koori
- waddy
- (a wooden club)
- willy willy
- woomera
- wurley
- (a hut)
- yabber
- (to talk)
- yakka
- (work)
Aboriginal-sounding words not of Aboriginal origin
- bandicoot
- (from Telugu)
- didgeridoo
- (onomatapoeic)
- goanna
- (corruption of iguana)
- Nullarbor
- (Latin for no trees)