thaypan
Wik-Mungkan
Alternative forms
- dhayban,[1] tay-pan[2]
Noun
thaypan[3]
- Rainbow Serpent
- taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus, etc.)
- Synonym: thuuk thaypan
Descendants
- English: taipan[2]
References
- "taipan" in Joan Hughes (ed.) (1989), Australian Words and Their Origins, p. 570. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
- "taipan" in (1987), The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged, New York: Random House, Inc.
- 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)