Dreamtime
Meanings
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- The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.
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- Alternative form of Dreamtime.
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Etymology
A false calque of Eastern Arrernte Altyerrenge (“the Dreaming”), based on the incorrect assumption that the word is related to altyerre (“a dream”) or altyerre areme (“to dream”). "-time" is an addition unrooted in Aboriginal language.
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