aboriginally
/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
Example Sentences
- "[…] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it."
- "[…] aboriginally the horse must have inhabited countries annually covered with snow, for he long retains the instinct of scraping it away to get at the herbage beneath."
- "[…] music, like verse, can do rhythm but it is only poetry that can yoke words together in rhyme (sometimes, of course, and aboriginally, at the service of music)."
- "Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […]"
- "[…] in the New World, where pots were never aboriginally shaped by turning, wheeled vehicles also were absent […]"
- "The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?"
Etymology
Etymology tree English aboriginal Middle English -ly English -ly English aboriginally From aboriginal + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/