Item 02: Kamilaroi, and other Australian Languages, by Rev. William Ridley, 2nd ed. (Sydney, 1875) - Page 42
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VOCABULARY OF KAMILAROI.
Kumbal ... a turkey buzzard
Milkomai ... eye dropt out
Kubbo ... a grub
Maianbar ... a deep tank or waterhole
II.–PRONOUNS. (See p. 6.)
III.–ADJECTIVES.
afraid ... gīal or ghilghil (from ghi, the heart)
alive ... mōron or ƞarilon
alone ... ƞāndil
angry ... yīlī
asleep ... bābī or ƞūrārū
awake ... warria
bad ... kagil or kuggil
bare ... balal (as balal kaogha, bald-headed)
bitter ... butta
blind ... mūga
blue (light) ... kaoaraoa
black or dark blue or brown ... būlui
brown (bay) ... dūa
bay (of redder hue) ... yutta
chief ... wūraia
clean ... bullar
clear (shining) ... killu
clever, sensible ... binal or binnal (from binna–ear)
cold ... karīl
cowardly ... gurrī gurrī
dead ... bālūn
deaf ... mūgabinna
deep ... bīrū
destitute ... tālibā
[used as a suffix, as in wī-tālibā, without fire, kolle tālibā, without water]
distant ... urribū
dry ... ballal
expansive ... muƞgūl
fasting ...wanal
[as ƞai wanal kūdū, I am abstaining religiously from kudu, a choice fish;– ƞai wanal bundar, I am abstaining from kangaroo.]
fat ... wommo
full (satisfied) ... yūlarai