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Vocabulary of the Natives of King George's Sound.
| Foot | Māāt, or Chen |
| Thigh | Towl |
| Hair | Chow |
| Skin | Mawp |
| Liver | Māierr |
| Body, or Flesh | Yarlin |
| Bones | Queet |
| Smell | Tāāmil |
| Fat | Cheerung |
| Cloak | Poāāk |
| Girdle | Noodlebull |
| Tuft of feathers worn on the head | Wallowinny, or Caccalon |
| String round the throat | Woortil |
| Knife | Tāāp |
| Hunting spear | Keit |
| Throwing stick | Mēar |
| Short stick | Towk |
| Curled stick, or Bomerang of the Sydney | Curl |
| Hammer | Koit |
| Wing-bone of a bird, used to suck water through | Knweel, or Nweel |
| String | Petroe |
| Yes | Hōō, Ky, Quāco |
| No | Poort |
| Don't | Pal-Pal |
| I cannot | Un Waumb |
| I'll go away | Un Bourloc |
| Come | Ca |
| Come here | Ca wa, U-alla |
| Go away, be off | Bullocō |
| Yours | Nuneloc |
| Me or mine | Un |
| I am hungry | Un Urelip |
| I am full | Un Mourert |
| I want | Un Gee |
| I want bread | Quannert un gee, or Marrin un gee |
| I want badly | Urelibup un gee |
| Water to drink | Kaip un āān |
| To eat | Anger, Taā |
| Bread | Quannert, or Marrin |
| Rice | Kioc |
| Potato | Yoke[1] |
| Absent, At a distance | Bōcun |
| Let us go away | Bōcun oola, or Wat-oola |
| Path | Māāt |
| Long | Woorie |
| Short | Korert |
| Much or large | Orpern |
| Little | Nehp, Nehbitur |
| What, What do you say? | E Nāāw |
| What is your name? | Enoc eēan |
| Bad, Unfit to eat | Wockun |
| Good | Quaup |
| This | Nè |
| To steal | Quypul |
| Thief | Quypungur |
| Like this, In this way | Ky unera |
| Night | Kartiac |
| Day | Ben, Bennan |
| Star | Chindy |
| Moon | Meuc |
| Sun | Chāāt |
| Thunder | Condernore |
| Lightning | Yerdivernan |
| Morning | Mania |
| To morrow | Maniana |
| Yesterday | Kartiac kain |
| Bye-and-bye | Poordel |
| Just now | Yibbal |
| Some time since | Corram |
- ↑ The above names, strictly, indicate vegetable substances resembling the articles of food expressed, and thence applied to them as they became known. The root quannert, or marrin, (bread,) is probably a gigantic truffle.
