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- baba: young one; pup; whelp
- babarnidi: to become a young one; i.e. be born
- babmi: a small bag; purse
- badada: to scold; abuse; accuse
- badada: to drive away; scare off
- badarnda: open glade; an open plain surrounded by scrub; oasis
- badidi: to wake; rouse from sleep
- bagoo: the point or catch of the midla or wommara
- badya: angry; hostile; quarrel; fight
- balabalada: to jerk one's tongue; express surprise
- balaridi: to shine; be lighted; enlightened
- balba: ticklish; ticklishness
- balbarda: the fag ends of the kangara or grass tree roots; that part of the grass tree which grows above ground and cannot be eaten
- balgara: a species of eucalyptus; blue gum
- balya: cool breeze; evening breeze
- bana: crack; crevice; gap; wrinkle
- banai: a species of fungus
- banara: a stone with a rough surface used as a rasp in sharpening the grubbing sticks
- banda: brackish; salt; bitter
- baoo: a call; hallo; cooee
- bardabarda: brothers in law; brothers having one wife
- barnada: to push; drive; scare away
- barngala: national name of the native tribes inhabiting the western coast of Spencer's Gulf and the adjacent country
- barngarlidi: to be Parnkalla; to speak the Barngarla language language
- baroo: animal; game; meat
- bibi: any jelly like substance; as the brain; marrow; etc
- bida: needle case; hollow bone in which is placed the pointed bone used in sewing
- bidla: dry; hard; any dry substance; as rind; crust
- bidlara: skilled in; used to; expert
- bidlyoo: the white female grub of a species of ants eaten by the natives
- bidyirrgi: timber; board; door; any smooth piece of wood
- bili: the white of an egg
- bilindya: a yellow flower retaining its colour in its dried state
- bilooroo: a hard root growing in the scrub; the thick skin of which is eaten when roasted
- bimba: coal black; shining black
- binada: to tremble; quiver; shiver
- binda: stingy; tenacious of
- binga: a small bone near the hip; used for peeling roots
- bingi: for; in exchange for; for the value of
- binmada: to refuse; shirk out of it
- birdoo: strong; firm; fast; immoveable
- biri: forked stick; fork of a tree
- biroo: strong; firm; fast; immoveable
- birra: shell; nautilus shell
- biri: name of the first child; if a boy
- biyi: the skin of the human body; any thin skin like matter; as paper; linen; etc.
- boodli: anus; the butt end of anything
- boodlidi: to turn upside down; invert; pervert
- booga: old; rotten; offensive
- boogala: a fatherless orphan; a person bereft of his father
- boogiri: anything to rest one's feet upon
- boorlga: old; aged; an old man; an old kangaroo
- boolgara: a species of tree producing a black sort of raisin; manna tree
- boonga: inflammable; combustible
- boorai: a large species of kangaroo rat
- boorili: hedge hog fish; any crustacious species of fish
- boorinya: a shrub producing an edible kind of raisin
- dhali: the young of a bird; pullet
- dhari: over; by way of; in the direction of
- dsoo: an expression of anger
- dyibala: the blossom of the nilai root
- dyidyabi: a species of bird; honey sucker
- dyila: skilled; experienced
- dyirira: a species of parrot; blue mountain parrot
- gabidi: to cut off; make a short cut; surround
- gabigarnga: an Island in Spencer's Gulf; on which Midlalla is said to reside
- gadha: club; grubbing stick
- gadandya: a species of bird called goatsucker
- gadara: apart; distant; little way off
- gadloo: the large black species of ant; lion ant
- gadloogoo: a grown up kangaroo; a female having born one young one
- gadnoo: a yellow striped species of lizard
- gaganara: from the surface; on the top; above
- gagara: pillow; anything to rest one's head upon
- garla: voice; speech; dialect
- gala boodni: a beautiful blue flowered creeper; native lilac
- garlalda: torch; dry bark lighted and used in fishing at night
- galangaridi: to call to each other; speak with a person at a distance
- galga: open; openly; public
- galgaridi: to tremble; heave; feel great desire
- galgidi: to become loose; undone; slip
- gali: a leaf of the cactus; commonly called the native fig
- galyaoodoo: to beckon away; to make a motion with the hand to another person to keep at a distance
- gamada: to tell; intercede for; ask
- gambada: to cook; bake; roast; foment
- gangai: a sea bird; bozen bird
- gangarrra: the root of the grass tree which at certain seasons of the year constitutes an excellent article of food for the natives
- gangi: self-willed; impetuous; resolute
- gangoo: an edible kind of root
- gadnyala: a pebble or round stone; carried about in the knapsack or net; used in breaking bones; etc
- ganyi: name for a relative
- garada: to be lame; to walk lame
- garrba: inside; room; European house
- garrbadya: a small blue coloured kind of fish
- garrbili: one of the burrowing species of animals
- gardanya: name of the first child; if a female
- gardi: stem of a tree; the thick branches of a tree
- garrgala: kind of cactus; commonly called the native fig
- gari: gradually; by and bye
- garrridhi: to be, exist in a continuous movement [existential]
- garinya: a species of lizard; ratling lizard
- garngoo: house; place of encampment
- gawana: an animal of the burrowing species; rat
- gayala: the north and north western country
- goobirri: a kind of kangaroo; red kangaroo
- gooboodoo: to state; maintain; represent with vehement gesture
- googada: national name of a north western tribe of natives
- goolada: to sever; cut; break; tear
- gooldya: green parakeet; grass parrot
- goolili: the name of a variety of eatable grubs; as: kullilli numma; kullilli patta; kullilli yako; kullilli yulko
- gooliri: the blossoms of the male she oaks
- goona: a species of kangaroo
- goonda: name of the third child; if a female
- gooni: name of the third child of a mother; if a male
- goorada: to bore; dig a well in the sand
- goorala: a well dug in sand or gravel
- goordloo: an animal of the marsupian species
- goordoo: steep; steep place; precipice
- gooridi: to turn around; wander about
- goorinyara: a pillar of dust produced by a whirlwind
- goorloo: side of the body; that part of the body between the shoulder and loin
- gooyana: the male grub of the mita ant which is not eatable and is separated from the female bidlyo; by winnowing
- yada: North East country or coast
- ibiri: a small species of lizard
- idala: a burrowing animal; rat
- idli: part of the abdomen
- idnambada: to approach softly; walk on tiptoe
- idni: round about; out of the way
- igarnidi: expresses the rapid motion of a spear; to fly
- ila: not hitting or not killing the game aimed at
- ildya: muscle; sinew; vein
- ilga: a prickly kind of shrub; thorn
- ilga ilga: pretty; fine with respect to personal appearance
- ilgada: to look askance; scowl
- ilidi: on account; for the purpose of
- ilya: an opening; open place; passage
- imini: sacred; forbidden; anything that must not be seen; said or touched
- inada: to sink in; bog; stick fast
- inba: straight; side by side
- inbaridi: to be in a line with another object; or to be close to it
- inda: bloody; wounded; shattered; wound; abscess
- ingi: in a circle; in a row
- ini: a pointed bone used as a needle or awl
- inyala: a species of burrowing animal
- irradha: to keep off; defend; protect
- iralboo: sharp; having a sharp and hard point as the spear when hardened in hot ashes
- irrbi: information; news; message
- iriridi: to keep moving or shifting; be restless
- irra booga: decayed teeth; having a smelling breath
- madara: ignorant; not used to; inexperienced
- madiri: matrilineal moiety name
- madli: the place of infants on the backs of their mothers
- madoo: a tree bearing a yellow berry
- maga: not so; or it is not
- magoo: a piece of quartz attached to the wommara; and used as a knife
- mai: vegetable food generally; such as roots etc
- maidya: expressing assurance; indeed
- mai yari: tenacious of food; stingy; greedy
- mayala: never mind; letting alone; notwithstanding
- malboo: a murderer; any person that has killed another whether he be justified in doing so or not
- maldara: a bunch of emu feathers over the lap
- malidi: to become undone; slip; fall
- maloo: not heeding; unconcerned
- mamada: to share; partake of anothers property; as food; meat; etc
- mamboodoo: to set on; as dogs; to instigate; encourage
- mana: much; plentiful; large
- mandi: repeatedly; continuingly
- manga: thread or yarn made of oppossum hair; and worn round the head
- marngarla: peacable; friendly; friend; the reverse of hostile paitya
- mani: a relative; nephew?
- manoo: together; near each other
- mara: the young offspring of animals; pup; pullet; etc
- mara: arm of a tree, hair
- marada: to crawl; walk on the hands
- marda: place; former place; or the place before inhabited or spoken of
- mardana: an acquaintance; friend; a person seen before
- mardi: a scar; a sore healed up
- mardoo: a tree bearing a yellow berry
- marrga: space of twenty four hours; day
- marrgada: to be fast; jammed in; to stick; pull tight
- marnda: animal of the marsupial species
- maroo: black paint; a mixture of the ashes of the grass tree and grease with which the natives ornament their faces
- marri: name of fifth child if a male
- marroogoo: name of the fifth child if a female
- maoo winya: a lightly clouded sky; favourable to oppossum hunting
- mida: a species of ant; or ant heap; the grubs of which the natives eat
- midla: a wooden lever to throw spears with wommarra
- milaga: a name of the seventh child if a female
- milari: a kind of rushes; of which the natives make their net bags
- milda: a kind of stone; slate
- mildi: a sort of red ochre used for ornament
- mili: name of the seventh child; if a male
- mina: theft; a word that expresses the idea of hiding in a variety of ways
- mina: small, little, young
- mina: a species of stingray
- mina moo: anything that one is not allowed to see; sacred
- minada: to take away unseen; to steal
- minara: a kind of eatable berry
- minga: a shrub growing on the sandy coast; and bearing a pod similar to French beans
- miniridi: to produce a humming sort of noise like the witarna
- minoo: a shrub bearing an edible fruit
- mirari: the Orion, a constellation
- miraoodoo: to sprinkle oneself all over with sand to assuage one's thirst
- mirrgaba: a person bereft of a relative; mourner
- mirildi: a white delicate species of flower
- mirinya yoora: a native; the reverse of mundultu yura; a European
- moodhla: the extreme point of anything; point of land
- moodlanoo: a large species of snake; carpet snake
- moogoo: knot; knob; button; any round and hard substance
- moorla: dry; dry land; terra firma
- moolbada: to save; reserve; to rub out; cut; reap?
- moolga: tear; cry; lamentation
- moona: the net with which boys of the age of about sixteen or eighteen (pardnapa's) secure their hair; hat; cap
- moonaga: name of the fourth child if a female
- moondooldidi: to become a European or white man; to live in European manner
- moonga: the layer or cover of an animal
- mooni: a small black snake
- mooni: name of the fourth child if a male
- moonoo: a venomous sea animal; often found dead on the sea beach
- moordi: salmon; a species of fish
- mooribi: ebb tide; low water; shoal; sand bank
- moowai: an edible kind of berry
- moowaridi: to be employed in; to remain or stop
- moondooldooridi: to become a European or white man; to live in European manner
- naldyada: to feel about; grope; as in a hole for game
- nambarni: a little while ago; this way; hither
- nawoo: the national name of the native tribe inhabiting the country about Coffin's Bay
- ngala: the thick part of the thigh
- ngarlaga: the name of the ninth child if a female
- ngarlayi: name of the ninth child if a male
- ngaloo: shank; ham; the thick flesh inside of the upper leg
- ngamba: an edible species of root
- ngamidi: a female animal; having born young ones
- ngamiri: orphan; person bereft of his parent
- ngandi: sunshine; light; the reverse of madla; shade
- nganga: interference in a quarrel; prevention of a fight; protection from aggression
- nganga warda: a person interfering; preventing a fight; protector
- ngara: error; deception; falsehood; lie; wrong; astray
- ngarrgiri: head dress; the tying of the hair with an oppossum hair girdle
- ngarngidi: a kind of shell; used for peeling roots
- ngoobi: darkness; pitch dark night
- ngoodlali: mother; a woman having born children
- ngoodli: pouch of the kangaroo and other marsupial animals
- ngooloogoo: the fat near the genitals of the kangaroo
- ngoonidi: to motion with the hand; beckon to come
- nilai: an edible species of root
- nimada: to pinch; touch; feel; squeeze
- niri: a part of the abdomen
- niyara: glutinous kind of berries; eaten roasted
- noodla: the large bag carried by the woman
- noodoo: false; incorrect; joking
- noogoonoo: national name of a native tribe inhabiting the country about the head of Spencer's Gulf
- noondoo: a shrub bearing an edible fruit; in the shape of beans; which the natives roast between heated stones
- noordi: knapsack; net bag carried by men
- noornigidi: to break the neck of an animal; extinguish its life
- nooroo: a species of snake; black snake
- waba: a bunch of emu feathers; stuck as an ornament in the hair on the forehead
- wabilya: better; restored to health
- wabma: a species of snake; diamond snake
- waboo: covered; hidden; cover
- wadaga: side of the abdomen; flank
- wadigoo: desert; inhospitable; waterless
- wardla: tree; fallen timber; block
- wadna: a species of bird; crane
- wadna: boomerang used in Port Lincoln only for killing fish
- wadniri: a kind of red berry growing on the beach; and of a sweet saltish taste
- wadoo: shelter; wheather shore
- waga: a small species of lizard
- walara: joyous; funny; droll; witty; intelligent
- walga: protuberance; the protruding part of anything
- walganidi: to protrude; rise; swell; be pregnant
- walili: a species of fish; cod fish
- walira: day; daylight; the reverse of malti
- waloo: space between two objects; gap; interval; opening; in two; to pieces
- wanha: which; what; where
- warra: out; far away; absent
- wari: about; hither and thither
- warri: name of the second child; if a male
- wariyi: a father bereft of his child
- warnbi: one bereft of a near relative
- warndoo: tree; billet of wood; dead root
- wariri: about; hither and thither
- wari: name of the second child; if a male
- wawanda: right away; for a long period
- wawoodoo: to waver; move from one side to the other
- warrooyoo: name of the second child; if a female
- wi: directly; this moment
- widarna: an oval piece of wood; about two feet long and four inches broad
- wilara: bare; uncovered; naked
- wilga: a domesticated wild dog; any domesticated animal; as a cat; etc
- wilgoo: narrow; tight; straight; narrow strip
- wiloo: a species of eagle
- wiloo: hearth; fire place
- wimana: an interjection; expressing doubt or ignorance
- wina: seaweed; any tough rushy plant fit for basket work
- wina: large spear; fishing spear
- winada: to plait; make basket work
- winda: long; always; constantly
- windi: angle; fishing hook
- windoo: long; always; constantly
- wininya: dry grass; any other soft matter to lie upon; bed
- wininyidi: to put something underneath to lie upon
- winnari: seaweed; any tough rushy plant fit for basket work
- winni: angle; fishing hook
- winoo: a red species of root
- wira: bachelor; spinster; unmarried
- wira: the air; ether; rain
- wirada: to make the fire up; trim it
- wirrba: a fence across a creek; to keep the fish in that have gone up with the tide
- wirrbi: the place before a running fire; where the natives take their station to knock down the game disturbed by the flames
- wirdi: the lower part of the spine
- wirdoo: bundle; tied in a bundle
- wirilbi: a person bereft of a relative
- wooriyi: a father bereft of his child
- ya da: to hunt; pursue; persecute
- ya-ata: to hunt; pursue; persecute
- yabi: a parasitical plant on the sheoak
- yabmana: a species of tree or scrub
- yabmara: a large species of fish; groper
- yada: now; soon; directly
- yaganya: the fat or thick part of the abdomen under the navel
- yailba: an animal of the burrowing kind
- yalbaridi: to hide oneUs self; shift; change place
- yalda: crack; fissure; fold; wrinkle
- yaldami: joke; false promise; lie; gammon
- yalgada: to warm; stand near the fire
- yalgala: a message of somebodyUs death
- yaloo: duplicate *violent*
- yanyanya: whisper; speaking in a low voice
- yara: different; otherwise
- yarrranda: name of the sixth child; if a female
- yardi: smooth; without stones
- yardla: the hide of the hind legs
- yarrri: name of the sixth child; if a male
- yarrri: tenacious of; stingy; greedy
- yari: wind; feather; quill
- yaridi: to be stingy; greedy; desire
- yarli yanada: to put the tongue out; which is a common habit with the natives when something unexpected is said
- yarndi: denotes the peculiar smell of oppossums
- yarroo: only; merely; for nothing; or no reason
- yaroodoo: to be hot; oppressed with heat
- yoo landa: a species of yellow flower of a globular shape
- yoodnoo: a small hole in the butt end of the spear for the hook end of the midla
- yoogiridi: to shine black; to be painted with black paint
- yoolgada: to flow over; weep; to well up
- yoomari: name for a relative; mother-in-law; wife's mother
- yoonoo: an edible species of root
- yooridi: to vent one's rage upon; or to desire
- yoorinidi: to have a mind to do something; wish; like
- yooriyaba: attentive; tractable; aware; understanding
- yooroo: chain of mountains; range
- babidi: sire (MAL PARENT), especially the male Emu
- barloo: burnt place or country
- boolbalya: Mt Pulbalye, between Mt Dutton and Mt Greenly
- boonaga gawoo: lake water, a native well in swampy and rushy ground
- boorana: a waterhole with reported good land near Port Lincoln
- dara: the fork of a man, hindquarter
- gadyini: name for a female relative, grandchild & grandmother >
- gaga: the hair on the human body, as the breast
- gala: a species of wild duck, wood duck
- gama: a species of fish, stingray
- gari: to draw attention, here I say, mind
- garnanyooroo: an animal building a nest of sticks to a great hight , yet not so high as the _kulli paru_
- goobiri: a kind of kangaroo, red kangaroo
- gooladi: butcherbird is same bird apparently
- goolibaroo: a bird that builds its nest of sticks to the height of at least three feet
- goolimbiri: the undulating country to westward of the Salt Lakes; Western Downs
- gooyi: fish, in the dialect at Lake Wangary
- inbanda: to place parallel; to measure
- indinyana: protegee, client, a person to whom one has administered a sacred rite
- manda: licentious, wanton
- marganidi: to remain over night; to remain one day
- minada: to walk in a stooping posture, to creep along, steal upon game
- moonda: netbag made of kangaroo sinews
- ngagooloo: the region between the nates, fork
- ngaldai: a species of fish, barrcauda
- ngandari: of different colours, spotted, green
- ngandya: dear, sweet, pretty, mindful
- ngari: germinating, grown and therefore unfit for eating as potatoes
- ngoori: shallow, slight, lightly wounded
- soowa: to draw attention or encourage as
- wagoombala: an actor, in some native ceremony; a person administering a sacred rite
- wagoonyoo: an actor, in some native ceremony; a person administering a sacred rite
- walanya: flag, banner stuck on the end of a spear & used as a signal in hunting kauanna
- walboonidi: to be strong, to be bound or costive [sic]
- wanggoo: barren, not having children
- wanyidi: to sooth [sic], lull to sleep by singing
- waragada: name of the place where Goolgoodoo is reported to have speared Mr Dark
- widloodoo: a woman whose elder brother is dead
- wilgardi: the tail of a wild dog worn as an ornament round the head
- wiri: throwing stick, waddy
- yadarna: by degrees, little by little
- yainga: a link of the vertebrae
- yingada: to yell, make a warlike noise
- yoomba: an actor in a native ceremony
- balba: dry grass, rubbish
- boornda: round stone, pebble, ball, pulp
- galgaridi: to tremble, heave, feel great desire
- nagoongaridi: to be of dim sight, to be on the point of dying
- ngamidi: a female animal, having born young ones, dam
- ngoodada: to loosen, untie, break, applaud, make
- waga: a small species of lizard
- wagoombala: an actor, in some native ceremony; a person administering a sacred rite
- widni: thin, small, on edge
- yalbada: to hate, destine to death, appoint, determine upon… [sic]
- yoolgada: to flow over, weep, swell up; to well up
- yoolgada: to flow over, weep, swell up; to well up