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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.