Rock, stone — buyi. Tree — burnu.
Sand — goyarra. Water — gabbi.
Sea — odern. Water (fresh) — gabbi dji-kap. Stick (wood) — garba. ,, (stream)— gabbi gurjait.
„ (fire-) — kalla-matta. Young (animal)— noba.
2. Adjectives.
The adjectives most commonly in use are: —
Alive — won-gin, doxxluk Hot — kallag.
Angry — garrag Like (similar) — mogin.
Arm (left) — n'yar'lo. Little — n'yu-map.
,, (right) — gun-man. Long, length — walaiadi.
Bad — djul. , • Low — gar-dak.
Big — gomon. Narrow — nulu.
Bitter — djallam. Near — barduk.
Black — moan. Old — windo.
Clear (as water) — karrail. Red — ^wilgilag.
Cold — nagga. Short — gorad (-da).
Dead — wonnaga. Sick — mendaik.
Dry (not wet) — ilar. Slow — dabbak.
Far away — urai". Soft — gunyak.
Fat — boain-gadak. Sweet — mulyit.
Fresh — milgar. Tall — urri.
Good — gwahha. Thin — kotyelarra.
Green — gerip-gerip. True — bundo.
Hard — murdoen. Wet — balyan.
Health (in) — barra-barra. White — wilban.
High — iragan. Wild — waii-waii.
A substantive acquires an adjective meaning by taking such suffixes as -gadak, 'having, possessing,' -bru, 'without,' which cori-esponds to the English suffix 'less'; as, jigala-gadak, 'having horns,' 'a cow'; kardo-gadak, 'having a husband or wife,' 'married'; boka-bru, 'cloak-less'; gabbi-bru, 'without Avater.'
Comparison of Adjectives.
Some adjectives add jin for the comparative; as, from dabbak, 'slow,' dabbak-jin, 'slower'; gwidjir, 'shai'p,' gwidjir-jin 'sharper'; yerrak, ' high,' yerrak-j in, 'higher.' But usually a reduplication makes the comparative, and -jil is added to the base for the superlative; as, gwabba, 'good,' gwabba-gwabba, ' better'; gwabba-jil, ' best.' This intensive particle -j il, equiva- lent to ' verily,' may be added to other parts of speech ; as, kardo-jil, 'one who is in the direct line for marryiog with another'; dadja-jil, 'it is certainly meat'; kannah-jil, 'is it indeed so'? The English 'very' is rendered by a reduplication; as, mulyit-mulyit, 'very sweet.'
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