kangaroo

Anglice

A kangaroo. (Macropus.)

Appellatio pronuntiatusque

API: /ˌkæŋɡəˈru/

(Americane)

API: /ˌkæŋɡəˈrʉː/

(Australiane)

Formae aliae

• saec. XVIII.  kangooroo ,  kanguru 
• saec. XVIII. –saec. XIX.  kanguroo 
• saec. XVIII. –saec. XXI.  kangaroo 

Notatio

← Guguyimidjir:  gangurru 

Nomen substantivum

kangaroo (plur. kangaroos)

1. √ macropus (-podis, masc.) || Marsupial Australianum genere Macropodum.

Dictiones derivatae

•  roo 
•  kangaroo apple 
•  kangaroo grass 
•  kangaroo hare 
•  kangaroo mouse 
•  kangaroo rat 

Loci

saec. XVIII.

• 1770: Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru, here are Wolves, Possums, an Animal like a ratt, and snakes, both of the Venemous and other sorts. — commentarium itineris primi mundi, James Cook [1]
• 1788: The other kinds of Inhabitants of these Wildernesses, and first of the species of Quadrupeds that We have either shot, taken or seen are Dogs, Kanguroos, Opossums, the Pole Cat, Rat & Mouse species. — Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon, George B. Worgan

saec. XIX.

• 1834: Kóng‐ko‐róng, The emu, from the noise it makes, and likely the origin of the barbarism, kangaroo, used by the English, as the name of an animal, called Mo‐a‐ne. — An Australian Grammar, Lancelot Edward Threlkeld