Editing Dingo (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:George Stubbs, A portrait of a large Dog from New Holland (Dingo), 1772.jpg|thumb|''[[Portrait of a Large Dog]] from [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]]'' by [[George Stubbs]], 1772. [[National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]].]]

The name "dingo" comes from the [[Dharug language]] used by the [[Indigenous Australian]]s of the [[Sydney]] area.<ref name=simpson2008/> 
The first British colonists to arrive in Australia in 1788 established a settlement at [[Port Jackson]] and noted "dingoes" living with Indigenous Australians.<ref name=tench1789/> The name was first recorded in 1789 by [[Watkin Tench]] in his ''[[Journals of the First Fleet#Watkin Tench|Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay]]'':

{{Blockquote|The only domestic animal they have is the dog, which in their language is called Dingo, and a good deal resembles the fox dog of England. These animals are equally shy of us, and attached to the natives. One of them is now in the possession of the Governor, and tolerably well reconciled to his new master.<ref name=tench1789/>}}

Related Dharug words include "ting-ko" meaning "bitch", and "tun-go-wo-re-gal" meaning "large dog".<ref name=simpson2008/> The dingo has different names in different [[indigenous Australian languages]], such as ''boolomo'', ''dwer-da'', ''joogoong'', ''kal'', ''kurpany'', ''maliki'', ''mirigung'', ''noggum'', ''papa-inura'', and ''wantibirri''.<ref name=corbett2004/> Some authors propose that a difference existed between camp dingoes and wild dingoes as they had different names among indigenous tribes.<ref name=ryan1964/> The people of the [[Yarralin, Northern Territory]], region frequently call those dingoes that live with them ''walaku'', and those that live in the wilderness ''ngurakin''.<ref name=roseC10/> They also use the name ''walaku'' to refer to both dingoes and dogs.<ref name=roseC6/> The colonial settlers of New South Wales wrote using the name dingo only for camp dogs.<ref name=walters1995/> It is proposed that in New South Wales the camp dingoes only became wild after the colonial destruction of Aboriginal society.<ref name=jackson2015/>