Box 9/Item2: 'Language of Southern Yorkes Penisula Blacks', 1900 - Page 27

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Domestic.

Bed                                                                     Dim.ara.

Coat or Shirt                                          Bul.ta   (a skin.)

Trousers                                                     Cundy.bulta.   or Cunda.bulta. (leg skin)

Boots                                                               Did na.bulta. (foot skin)

Hat                                                                     Gurr.gun.noo   or Gucka.wurley. (Head cover)

Father                                                             Bup.pe      

Mother                                                           Um.me              

Brother                                                            YÅ«ng.er          No further  relations.

Sister                                                               Yug.gunnă.

Baby                                                                  GÅ«ng.un.yer.

Little fellow                                             GÅ«ng.un.yer

Male (boy.)                                             Yurd.lee.

Female (girl)                                         Arn.kee.

One                                                                   Gŏot.choo.

Two                                                                   Bull.i.

Three                                                             Mung.ga.wee.       No further numerals.  

A camp (wurley.)                         Bil.duckoo   or Wurley.

Any straight stick                        Bid.jiller  or Bid.jer.la.    

A forked                 do                         Bid  jiller    (e.g. rafter of hut.)

Fire                                                                 Cuurd.la   or Gud.dla.

Any light                                                 Cuurd.la.

Smoke                                                       Be.yoo. (Tobacco or wood smoke.)

                                                                                       17.    

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