62 ABORIGINAL DESIGNAIONS FOR STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



Plain and simple as this appears, it is by no 

 means so. In what sense is the word "flint" used? 

 Does it mean to express the mineral flint, or does it 

 mean an object made from flint? I think that the latter 

 view is the correct one, because Scott adds, "or a 

 knife." 



We may therefore conclude that any cutting imple- 

 ment manufactured by the Aborigines was called 

 teroona or trawootta. 



At the first glance it might appear that these are two 

 absolutely different words, but I shall be able to prove 

 that they are practically the same. 



If we look up Milligan's vocabulary of the Tas- 

 manian language, we find under the heading of flint the 

 following words: — 



Tribes about Mt. Royal, Bruni Island, Recherche 

 Bay, and the South of Tasmania — North-West and 

 Western Tribes. 



Mungara (Flint). 

 Mora trona (Flint), black. 

 Tribes from Oyster Bay to Pittwater — 

 Trowutta (Flint). 



It is obvious tihat the words trawootta (Scott) and 

 trowutta (Milligan) are identical. We have, therefore, 

 the following words to designate the Tasmanian stone 

 implements : — 



i. Trowutta. 



2. Teroona. 



3. Mungara. 



4. Mora trona (black flint). 



It is evident that the word " trona " is exactly the 

 same as " teroona," and, if we write the word trow r utta 

 like this — 



trowa-tta 



we see that we have apparently the same root, because 

 it can be taken as certain that the words 



Teroona, 



Trona, 



Trowa, 



