Item 02: 'Aboriginal words and names - Lower Clarence River Dialect, compiled by Robert Leycester Dawson', September 1935 - Page 9

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MAN

(With the human body and parts thereof)

A man ... Yes-yurrah

Old man ... Uloo-ray-yee

Yound man ... Mur-ru-won-gun

Tall man ... Wass-roo-gah or You-ree-kim-gah

Short man ... Ah-lee-kah

Dead man ... Yalloo-way

Boy ... Oo-wur-rah

Little boy ... Buttur-rah

Woman  ... Mil-kerry or Doo-bai

Old woman ... Ungun-dig-gah

Girl ... Woggie-yow-an

Dead woman ... Eely-eerie

Baby (male and femle) ... Woo-wurrah or Yah-yin-gle

Blacks (a lot of them) ... Noon-gy or Yan-gurrah

Head ... Lee-kee

Hair (of the head) ... Mus-rah

Forehead ... Wahn

Eyes ... Mee-il

Nose ... Ee-nah

Ears ... Ul-kun

Cheeks ... Nah-rurrah

Mouth ... Yal-lee

Tongue ... Yahn-narm-bill

Cough ... Ill-boo

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