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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