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VOCABULARY OF KAMILAROI.

Kaghil (Coghill) ... bad, nasty (water)

Balal (Pallal) ... bare

Guligal ... long grass seed

Tūlūdūna ... made or chiselled out of wood

Burburgate ... place of belts (burr)

Bundarrā ... place of kangaroos

Murrowolarai (Molrov) ... having hedgehogs (murrowol)

Inariendrai (Henriendry) ... the sale of the inar (woman)

Nurraburai (Narrabry) ... Forks

Duƞgalīa (Dungalea) ... little piece of wood

Minyāgo yūgila ... why weepest thou? (the name of a fountain on the mountain side about forty miles from the Namoi). The blackfellow who told me the name described it as " kolle waimul," water bubbling up.

Būlerawā ... place of the bulera (a tree–bastard myal)

Wolobrai ... stony (in Wiraiarai)

Yaruldūl ... stony (in Kamilaroi)

Deran ... dry ground

Guïgola ... red ground

Telūba or Kelūba ... native clover

Wārian ... native onion–a poisonous plant

Mobbo ... beef wood

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