Item 02: Kamilaroi, and other Australian Languages, by Rev. William Ridley, 2nd ed. (Sydney, 1875) - Page 39
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NOUNS–NAMES OF PLACES
Gūndimaian (Gundamaine) ... house on the stream
Biridja (Breeza) ... place of fleas
Bukkitarō (Pokataroo) ... river going wide
Bilagha (Piliga) ... head (gha) of scrub oak (Bila)
Gorāman (Graman) ... long plain, or glade
Worra (Warrah) ... on the left hand (i.e. from Murrurundi)
Bāwun (Barwan) ... great, wide, awful (River)
Burī Warina (Breewarrina) ... trees (scrub acacia, commonly called briglow) standing up (in clumps)
Burīagal ... related to the burī
Burīagala (Briglow) ... place of the burī
Ƞamai (Namoi) ... place of the ƞamai tree (a variety of the acacia) or from ƞamū breast (the river curving like a woman's breast)
Guïdā (Gwydir) ... place or river of red (banks)
Gūnīwaraldai ... lime or white stone (gūnī) spread
Bukkiberaī (Boggabry) ... place of creeks
Gūnidā (Gunnedah) ... place of white stone (others say place of the destitute)
Kulgoa (Culgoa) ... running through or returning
Kobadā (Cobbedah) ... place of a hill
Munīlā (Manilla River) ... round about (this river forms almost a circle)
Milli ... white pipeclay (silicate of magnesia)