The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-002

Ndre mayañg

Papua New Guinea · Ndre (Dre) language area, northern Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

A second Maipua blade, collected by J. H. Holmes in the 1890s: paired circular motifs inside pointed outlines, bordered by pale triangles and bands, with a short wooden tab at one end.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. A second Maipua blade, collected by J. H. Holmes in the 1890s CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Image source

mayañg (pronounced muyaŋ)

Source term: bullroarer: mayañg

mayañg (phonetic muyaŋ): bullroarer (Yamfinder, Ndre, Emil Mittag field data)

In Ndre the bullroarer is mayañg, spoken muyaŋ. Ndre, or Dre, is a small Nambu language of the northern Morehead district in south-western Papua New Guinea, among the Yam languages whose speakers live by their yam gardens. Its neighbours share the name: màyang at Keru, meyang among the Nen, moiank among the Keraki, whose roarer first sounded for the wife of the sky-being Kambel until he snatched it from her.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called mayañg (pronounced muyaŋ); its form is not recorded.
Function
Not recorded.

Sources

  1. Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer' View
  2. CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., "Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024) View
  • Kiriwa sosamPapua New Guinea · Arammba (Upper Morehead) language area, Kiriwa village, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Wim wɑgrɑPapua New Guinea · Wim village, Pahoturi River country, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Tais mburerePapua New Guinea · Tais village, southern Morehead district near the coast, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Daraia áki kwèfanPapua New Guinea · Daraia village, north-east of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Mibini saɸaŋgəPapua New Guinea · Mibini village, south of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Namo mbulu and moyaŋgPapua New Guinea · Namo language area, south of the Morehead River toward Tais, Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province · Function not recorded

Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.