lutruwita

English

Etymology

From the palawa kani language.

Proper noun

lutruwita

  1. (Australia) The island of Tasmania, especially seen as an Aboriginal territory.
    • 2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 104:
      A singular irony pertaining to the Tasmanian devil is the small human population of its home island: lutruwita (c. 40,000 years), also Van Diemen's Land (from 1803) and subsequently Tasmania (from 1856).
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