An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 613 pages of information about An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island.

An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 613 pages of information about An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island.

I shall now add a vocabulary of the language, which I procured from Mr. Collins and Governor Phillip; both of whom had been very assiduous in procuring words to compose it; and as all the doubtful words are here rejected, it may be depended upon to be correct*.

[* This Vocabulary was much enlarged by Captain Hunter.]

Allocy, To stay. 
Annegar, To ask any thing. 
A-ra-goon, A war shield. 
Ar-row-an, Distant, or far off. 
Boe, or Bo-y, Dead. 
Bourbillie remul, Buried.
Bado-burra, _or_ Burra-bado, _To pour water_. [ It should be observed, that in speaking, Wolle-warre
frequently changes the position of his words, as in Bado-burra: 
so when walking one night from Prospect-Hill to Rose-Hill, we
frequently stumbled against the roots, and he exclaimed
“Were Wade, and Wade Were,”
bad wood, or bad roots.]
 Bado-go-bally-vuida, I am dry, or I want water to
drink
. 
Barong-boruch, A belly-full. 
Boor emil diow, To put on. 
Bo-me, To breathe. 
Bo-gay, To dive. 
Boorana, Yesterday. 
Boora-Carremay, A fine day. 
Beal, or Bidgeree, Good. 
Byalla, To speak. 
Bomar, A grave. 
Bourra, A cloud, or the clouds. 
Bengalle, Ornaments in general. 
Barrong, The belly. 
Booroow, The testicles. 
Boon-abbiey, To kiss each other. 
Berille, The finger-
Bib-be,
The ribs_. 
Boot Boot, The heart. 
Bur-ra, A fish-book. 
Bur-boga, To rise. 
Bir-ra, The cheek. 
Bin-ning, The leg. 
Bin-yang, A bird. 
Bee-an-bing, A quail. 
Ba-ra-goo-la, The flood-tide.

Birrang, The stars. 
Be-anga, A father. 
Boon-ya, To kiss. 
Ban-ga-ray, The red kanguroo. 
Bo-ra-ya, To sing. 
Bur-ra-doo, or Moona, A louse. 
Ba-rin, An apron worn by young females. 
Bin-ny, With young. 
Bul-mie, To clap hands in dancing. 
Ba-na-rang, The blood. 
Barbuka, To get up. 
Boming, A bird called the red-bill. 
Bun-ya-dil, To singe the beard off. 
Bolwara, To stare, or open the eyes. 
Bur-ra-ne, To-morrow. 
Baggy, The skin. 
Boo-roo-an, An island. 
Bo-ye, Death, or a ghost. 
Cowull, The male of animals. 
Car-re-nar-e-bille, To cough. 
Cannadinga, To burn. 
Can-no-can, Any vegetable fit to eat. 
Ca-ma, To call. 
Carre-mille-bado, To soak, or wash in water. 
Coing-bibo-la, The sun-rise. 
Coing-burra-go-lah, The sun-set. 
Camurra, A day. 
Chiang, or Chang-ulah, To chew. 
Cot-ban-jow, Broken. 

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