thaypan

Wik-Mungkan

thaypan (Oxyuranus scutellatus)

Alternative forms

Noun

thaypan[3]

  1. Rainbow Serpent
  2. taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus, etc.)
    Synonym: thuuk thaypan

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ "taipan" in Joan Hughes (ed.) (1989), Australian Words and Their Origins, p. 570. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  2. 1 2 "taipan" in (1987), The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged, New York: Random House, Inc.
  3. ↑ Kilham, Christine and Mabel Pamulkan and Jennifer Pootchemunka and Topsy Wolmby (2011). Wik Mungkan-English interactive dictionary. AuSIL Interactive Dictionary Series A–6: AuSIL. http://ausil.org/Dictionary/Wik-Mungkan/lexicon/mainintro.htm. (retrieved 16 March 2018)
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