Who knows this interesting fact?

Question

OK, here's it: How does the word "kangaroo" originated?
Who answers correctly will get the points and I'll choose his/her answer as the best answer. Good luck haha.

Answer 1

When the original settlers arrived in Australia and asked the native aboriginal people the name of that funny animal that jumped around on two feet, the aboriginal said 'kangaroo'. The settlers thought that was the name of the animal, and started calling it that. 'Kangaroo' however in the aboriginal language meant 'I don't know'.

Answer 2

The word kangaroo derives from the Guugu Yimidhirr (an Australian Aboriginal language) word gangurru, referring to a grey kangaroo. The name was first recorded (as "Kangooroo or Kanguru") on 4 August 1770, by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook on the banks of the Endeavour River at the site of modern Cooktown, when HM Bark Endeavour was beached for almost 7 weeks to repair damage sustained on the Great Barrier Reef.[1]

Kangaroo soon became adopted into standard English where it has come to mean any member of the family of kangaroos and wallabies. The belief that it means "I don't understand" or "I don't know" is a popular myth that is also applied to many other Aboriginal-sounding Australian words. Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers or jacks; females are does, flyers, or jills and the young are joeys. The collective noun for kangaroos is a mob, troop, or court. Kangaroos are sometimes coloquially referred to as 'roos.

Answer 3

The word kangaroo derives from the Guugu Yimidhirr (an Australian Aboriginal language) word gangurru, referring to a grey kangaroo.

The name was first recorded (as "Kangooroo or Kanguru") on 4 August 1770, by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook on the banks of the Endeavour River at the site of modern Cooktown, when HM Bark Endeavour was beached for almost 7 weeks to repair damage sustained on the Great Barrier Reef.[1]

Kangaroo soon became adopted into standard English where it has come to mean any member of the family of kangaroos and wallabies. The belief that it means "I don't understand" or "I don't know" is a popular myth that is also applied to many other Aboriginal-sounding Australian words.

Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers or jacks; females are does, flyers, or jills and the young are joeys. The collective noun for kangaroos is a mob, troop, or court. Kangaroos are sometimes coloquially referred to as 'roos.

Answer 4

The existence of a word "gangurru" was in the northeast Aboriginal language of Guugu Yimidhirr, referring to a species of kangaroo.

Answer 5

easy.... someone said it and now it is so.

i mean it had to come from someones mouth. so once he/she said it, it traveled and became a known word that depicts that object or thing or living thing.

Answer 6

simple, the O'ora Gank was looking at himself in the mirror and his name tag read kanG aro'O, so he changed his name!!!

Answer 7

I don't know or I don't understand is what it is sometimes believed to mean.

Answer 8

thing that jumps