aboriginal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ (Australia)
- audio Gloucestershire
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.nəl/ (Canada, General-American)
Etymology
See Aboriginal.
Meanings
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First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
Said Wailan Wangko to Wangi, "Take this ginger and go and blow it on the skulls and the ears of these two images, that they may be able to speak; call the man Adam and the woman Ewa." In this narrative the names of the man and woman betray Christian or Mohammedan influence, but the rest of the story may be aboriginal.
1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 14:Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 131:Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Longman et al., page 277:
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Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.
Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 2:Had a vast knowledge of the aboriginal tribes; was, in spite of his juniority, the greatest authority on the aboriginal Gullals.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 37:
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(alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
alt of Aboriginal
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more aboriginal | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most aboriginal | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
aboriginally · aboriginality · nonaboriginal · aboriginalness
Relateds
Synonyms
ancient (indigenous to a place) · endemic (indigenous to a place) · first (indigenous to a place) · indigenous (indigenous to a place) · original (indigenous to a place) · native (indigenous to a place) · earliest (indigenous to a place) · primordial (indigenous to a place) · autochthonous (indigenous to a place) · primitive (indigenous to a place) · primeval (indigenous to a place)
Translations (47)
bg коренен (original; indigenous) · uk абориге́нський (original; indigenous) · cmn 土著 (original; indigenous) · xal уул (original; indigenous) · nl inheemse (original; indigenous) · bg местен (original; indigenous) · ka აბორიგენული (original; indigenous) · uk автохто́нний (original; indigenous) · ru тузе́мный (original; indigenous) · gl indíxena (original; indigenous) · pt aborígene (original; indigenous) · mhr абориген (original; indigenous) · pl aborygeński (original; indigenous) · ru коренно́й (original; indigenous) · sh autohtono (original; indigenous) · ru ме́стный (original; indigenous) · el ιθαγενής (original; indigenous) · de einheimisch (original; indigenous) · ca aborigen (original; indigenous) · fi alkuperäinen (original; indigenous) · vi thổ dân (original; indigenous) · id pribumi (original; indigenous) · sa देशज (original; indigenous) · ja 土着の (original; indigenous) · ka მკვიდრი (original; indigenous) · ru абориге́нный (original; indigenous) · de eingeboren (original; indigenous) · el ιθαγενής (living in a land before colonization) · fr indigène (original; indigenous) · ka ადგილობრივი (original; indigenous) · ga bundúchasach (original; indigenous) · nl autochtoon (living in a land before colonization) · it aborigeno (original; indigenous) · es aborigen (original; indigenous) · uk тубі́льний (original; indigenous) · ru автохто́нный (original; indigenous) · uk тузе́мський (original; indigenous) · ml ആദിവാസി (original; indigenous) · hi देशज (original; indigenous) · ka ავტოქთონური (original; indigenous) · gv bun-dooghyssagh (original; indigenous) · fr aborigène (original; indigenous) · sh starosjedilački (living in a land before colonization) · nl inheems (original; indigenous) · fi alkuperäinen (living in a land before colonization) · gv bun-chummallagh (original; indigenous) · bg туземен (original; indigenous)