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(in pencil)
Native Nouns compiled by me
Port Stephens Tribe from the lips of two
very intelligent
blacks, Billy and
Fanny Steward
1871 Mr Scott
| English | Aboriginal | English | Aboriginal |
| Head | Wolluck | Man White | Kirrumbullah |
| Hair | Kittuck | Woman | Kiu |
| Eyes | Mecarck | Boy | Poori |
| Nose | Gharug | Girl | Murrakeau |
| Mouth | Kurracar | Baby | WÅ«nni |
| Ears | Ghuooreark | Male | KÅ«wirree |
| Chin | Tarpee | Female | Kiu |
| Lips | Willick | Father | PÅ«yali |
| Teeth | Tir-rali | Mother | Ghiyali |
| Tongue | MiyÄrl | Brother |
Buiglu x |
| Arms | Curran | Sister | Ghurruu |
| Hands | Mutterali | Uncle | Gowan |
| Fingers | same | Aunt | Barn |
| Nails | Cooreeng | Grandfather | Puppoo |
| Eye | Kuttra[?] | Grandmother | Giwppee |
| Feet | Tinnah | Blackfellow | Cooree |
| Toes | same | Blackgin | Kiu |
| Eyebrows | Yuideree | Widow | |
| Eyelashes | Wooepew | Orphan | |
| Day | Ghurracun | Summer | Kurrawaru |
| Night | Koorah | Winter | Tuckerah |
| Today | Bunghi | Rain | Kueywou |
| Tomorrow | Coombah | Wind | Carreark |
| Yesterday | Coombah | Rainbow | Too-roo-ince-ry |
| Light | Clouds | Yarreel | |
| Dark | Water | Ghuttook | |
| Sun | Wingin x Foocan | Air | Woopee |
| Moon | Keewuk | Fire | Wuttar |
| Stars | Munni & Merun | Flame | Kille |
| Comet | Smoke | Poot.too | |
| Heat | Wirrin-wirrin | Sea | Wombal x Kroowar |
| Cold | Kurhur | River | Pummi |