Box 4 Folder 1: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 73

Name of Place	Meaning or Reason why it was Given	Name of Place	Meaning or Reason why it was Given
Tiltagra	Plenty Kangaroos sit down	Wilcannia	The Inside of a fish
Womiaminta[?]	The flight of a boomerang after contact with the ground	Kepago	the well known herbage Crow's foot or wild geranium
Nuntherungie	A yam or wild onion	Gnalta	Salt or sour water
Nundoro	A break wind around a camp	Yancannia	The track of the dog
Tirlta	A Kangaroo	Bootra	Dust
Topar	Spittle	Woytchugga	The Moon
Cuthowarra	Sandal wood	Umberumberka	A rat hole
Mootwingee	Grass	Murtee	Water or a river point
Langawirra	A forked tree	Buckalon	A small lake
Mundi Mundi	A small creek or watercourse running into a large one	Euriowie	A rocky water hole
Teltawongee	Hard ground
Kinchega	Laughing Jackass
Purnamoota	Iguana
Yalcowinna	A cave or hole in a hill
Menindie	Greedy
Mowba	Dark A dark night
Menamurtee	the dripping of water		**
Cootwandy	Teeth
Yantara	A crossed stick at right angles
Coonbaralba	Fat or grease
Byjerkerno	White quartz white stone
Yarramurtie[?]	Big tree in a waterhole
Yandama	Stoney country
Tibboohorra	A soakage water hole
Carypundy	A water hen
Wanaaring	A boomerang
Warri Warri	A stick or kind of Nulla Nulla
Netallie	Fine gravel
Culpaulin	Fallen limb of tree
Weinteriga	A net fixed across the back to carry kangaroos and other game in

** To accompany my ?? to
   the District Surveyor on the 19th Oct
   1900
   E.W. Ellis
   Surveyor.

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