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Longa vs Donga - What's the difference?

longa | donga |

As nouns the difference between longa and donga

is that longa is a musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes while donga is a transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.

As a preposition longa

is on, in, at, to.

longa

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) langa, from (etyl) (m). Compare (etyl) and (etyl) long.

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • (Australian Aboriginal) on, in, at, to
  • * 2000, Queensland Department of Justice, Aboriginal English in the courts: a handbook
    • He wait longa river.
    Synonyms
    * la * 'long

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) longa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes.

    • Anagrams

    * Australian Aboriginal English ----

    donga

    English

    (wikipedia donga)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
  • * 2004 , Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia , Lonely Planet, page 152,
    • Menzies Hotel' ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, '''donga''' $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - ' dongas (temporary miner?s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.
  • * 2004 , James Woodford, The Dog Fence , page 225,
    • He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman?s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.
  • * 2009 , (editor), ''The Best Australian Essays 2009 , page 118,
    • Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
    Usage notes
    * Usually used in outback Australia, especially the northwest.

    Etymology 2

    From the Nguni group of languages. A washed out ravine or gully.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South African English) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
  • * 1900 , , Volume 2, 2008 Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 14:
    • Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga .
  • * 1901 , , Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 284:
    • There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
  • * 1948 , , In Search of South Africa , Methuen, page 168:
    • Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas .

    References

    * Jean Bradford, A Dictionary of South African English , Oxford (1978).

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    * * English terms with multiple etymologies