LANGUAGE.
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| English Name. |
Aboriginal Name. |
| Small bird with patch of red over tail |
Bribatith. |
| Small bird like tomtit | Ya rang. |
| Geese | Nath. |
| Snipe | Klik . |
| Spoon-bill duck | Wyung. |
| Darter or serpent-bird | Tharwan. |
| Mountain duck | Kara-gnark. |
| Sand-piper | Kewet-kewet. |
| White hawk | Boon boong. |
| Small grey hawk | Troon wagga. |
| Grey plover | Bungil bowrndang. |
| Quail | Ooro bi gnanang. |
| Penguin | Tarlo birndang. |
| Water-hen | Neerloong. |
Insects, &c.
English Name.
|
Aboriginal Name.
|
| Spider | Mermandho. |
| Tarantula | Waanduna kani. |
| Mason fly | Kookoonda miowera. |
| March fly | Narrawort. |
| Mosquito | Newan. |
| Cricket | Ta jerrat. |
| Small moth | Tarlo käng käng. |
| Frog | Tatelah. |
| Bull-frog | Blook. |
| Sting-ray | Bäälangoork. |
| Bulldog ant | Dibban. |
| Large-headed ant | Purk gatti. |
| Small black ant | Wooyoot. |
| Louse | Nin. |
| Grass tick | Dango. |
| Grasshopper, locust | Bapakan. |
| Grub | Krang. |
| Large moth | Bä bukan. |
| Butterfly | Ngarewert. |
| Black beetle | Ngoorin. |
| Fly | Naroon. |
| Bee | Kaangal. |
| Mantis | Bungil towera. |
| Centipede | Ngow-ook thuringa. |
| Scorpion | Koongun. |
| Earwig | Ngara-ngara. |
Trees, &c.
English Name.
|
Aboriginal Name.
|
| Ironbark | Baroin. |
| Box-tree | Tä-kan. |
| White-gum | Balook. |
| Mahogany of Snowy River | Pinnak. |
| Wattle | Mart. |
| Lightwood | Yowan. |
| She-oak | Bärn. |
| Cherry-tree | Ballat. |
| Stringybark | Yangoora. |
| Mountain ash | Yowat. |
| Red-gum | Yooro. |
| Tea-tree | Birt. |
| Tea scrub or hummocks | Nowart. |
| Currant-tree | Lirra. |
| Pittosporum undulatum | Bärt-bärt. |
| Honeysuckle | Bown. |
| Kangaroo apple | Koonyang. |
| Musk-tree | Barri mebbook. |
| Fern-tree | Kärak. |
| Fern, light-green one | Geewan. |
| Nettle | Mäbun. |
| Sow-thistle | Thalak. |
| Common grass | Ban. |
| Grass-tree | Tarndang. |
| Cabbage-tree | Thapalla. |
| Reed | Kowat. |
| Cutting grass, used for making baskets | Krowan. |
| Rush grown on swamps, with broad flat leaf | Toorook. |
| Round rush | Booroot. |
| White-currant shrub | Karrowert. |
| Raspberry | Yallaban. |
| Tall fern-tree | Kakawert. |
| Short fern-tree | Dagal. |
LANGUAGE OF THE NATIVES OF THE PINE PLAIN TRIBE, NORTH WIMMERA, AND GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT, THE LODDON, AND SWAN HILL.
(Carefully collected from some very intelligent blacks from that tribe living at Lake Wellington Mission Station in Gippsland.)
(By the Rev. F. A. Haqenauer, of Lake Wellington, Gippsland.)
English.
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Native.
|
| I am going to strike | Daak ginyan. To strike going am I. |
| I am going to find a nest | Yaak ginyan laangy-banyee. To find going am I (a) nest (of a) bird. |
| I am going to lie down | Goomin ginyan. To lie down going am I. |
