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Quoll

Guugu Yimithirr (Australian Aboriginal)

“native name for the spotted marsupial predator”

Where it comes from

dhigul / je-quoll (recorded by early explorer Captain Cook)

Fun Fact

Captain Cook recorded an early version of the word during his 1770 voyage along the Australian coast, making it one of the earliest Aboriginal loanwords adopted into English.

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