While most of this answer is correct, a person would not use the term 'prat' to refer to their backside, it's a derogatory term used mainly to talk about a person and or their behavior e.g 'He was acting like a total prat'.. any spoken sound r â¦ epresented by the letter A or a, as in bake, hat, father, or small. 3. something having the shape of an A. 4. a written or printed representation of the letter A or a. 5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter A or a. From Dictionary.com. 1 person found this useful.
However, since the Mandan language has been in contact with Hidatsa and Crow for many years, the exact relationship between Mandan and other Siouan languages (including Hidatsa and Crow) has been obscured and is currently undetermined.
Soon, elements and words from Aboriginal languages were to become part of the Australian vernacular. 1  In researching for this article, I actually discovered that a lot of words I previously thought to be âstandardâ English are actually derived from Indigenous Australian languages! Here are some examples: 1  The names of many places and animals â including Canberra (the Australian capital, meaning âmeeting placeâ in a local language), dingo, kangaroo, budgerigar, boomerang, wallaby. 2  Hard yakka â meaning âhard workâ, derived from the Jagera language of the Brisbane area.