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From the earlier form je-quoll, from Guugu Yimidhirrdhigul. Recorded by Banks but then virtually forgotten for 150 years, with the term native cat used instead. Today readopted and gaining in popularity.
^ Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, extended description following entry for 26 August 1770: Another was calld by the natives Je-Quoll: it is about the size and something like a polecat, of a light brown spotted with white on the back and white under the belly.
^ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN, page 79-80 and 221-2.
