Where does “wombat” come from?

wombat (English) comes from Dharug wambad.

wombat (English): Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials,...

Definitions

  1. Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials,...

Ancestry of “wombat”, step by step

wombat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dharug wambad

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dharugwambad—

via Dharug wumbat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dharugwumbatwombat (Vombatus ursinus)

Words derived from “wombat”

Every word from Dharug wambad →