Item 02: 'Aboriginal words and names - Lower Clarence River Dialect, compiled by Robert Leycester Dawson', September 1935 - Page 14

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Dawn ... Yah-rah-gy-eerie

Today ... Yay-en

Tomorrow ... Mord-jellah

Yesterday ... Wool-nool

Sunrise ... Yah-rah-gy-eerie

Sunset ... Wee-you-coo-you

Night ... Nock-wan

Sea ... Ar-gull

River ... Yerrah-wah-lee

Flood ... Roorl-gum

[red arrow pointing down]

Lagoon ... Wor-rull

Swamp ... Book-kee-jee-ah

Ground ... Wat-turrah

Mud ... Nah-rull

[red line mark]

Fire ... Wah-gai 

Bushfire ... Yoon-dee-wahgai

Smoke ... Nah-roo-gin

Charcoal ... Nit-kee

Ashes ... Moon-ger-roll
 

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