Boomerang
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early 19th century: from Dharuk.
wiktionary
Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.
etymonline
boomerang (n.)
"missile weapon used by Australian aborigines," 1827, adapted from an extinct Aboriginal languages of New South Wales, Australia. Another variant, perhaps, was wo-mur-rang (1798).
boomerang (v.)
1880, "to throw a boomerang," from boomerang (n.). Figurative sense "fly back to the starting point" is from 1900.
