��AN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE.
��Burugbuggulla — maud., sot at liberty ; set loose.
Buru gbuggulliela — was cau.sing to be set at liberty ; was un- loosing or releasing.
Burn gbuggulliela ba — while (as, when). . .was setting at liberty.
Burugbuggulliko — to cause to be set at liberty ; to unloose ; to release ; to unbind.
Burugkulleun — did set at liberty, unloosed (of itself).
Burugkulliko — to set itself at liberty of its own })ower ; to unloose itself ; to unbind it- self ; to go off spontaneously.
Butti — more ; to do more ; to continue the action.
Butti-butti — mand., more more ; go on, go on.
Buttikag — any animal ; ass, ox.
Buttikag ba — when (if) an ani- mal . . . , as an ox.
Bu-nwil — opt., wish to smite.
Bu-uwil koa — subj., in order to smite ; that . . . might smite ; on purpose to strike.
Buwa — mand., smite ; strike.
��There is no sibilant sound in the language, consequently there is no c soft, or s, or z in the native alj^liabet. These letters, therefore, occur only in words of foreign origin introduced into the aboriginal tongue. The hard sound of c, as in Uny. ' cubit,' would 1)6 represented l^y the letter k The letter 6 (0) repre- sents the sound of ch. , as in Entj. ' church.'
��Cipu — Eng., sheep. Kc'if(titalo, Gr.)—Foiff., calf.
��Kalabary — j^-^^-) Calvary.
Kenturion — a centurion.
Kentui"ion-ko — the centurion, as an agent.
Kubit — Eng., a cubit.
Kurenia— pr. n. , Cyrenia.
Kurenia-kal — belonging to Cy- renia ; a Cyrenian ( niasc.J.
Kurenia-kulin — T)elonging to Cy- renia ; a Cyrenian (fern.).
��D.
D has a middle sound betwixt t and d ; it often confounds the sounds of d and t. I) is used in foreign words, while t belongs to the language. The aborigines do not pronounce the Eng. v or f, generally substituting h for V, and j) tor f.
Dabid — David.
Dabid-to — David, as the agent.
Dabidumba — belonging to D.
Debbil (fdiabol, 6'/-'.) —devil.
Debbil-debbil — intensive; a term used for an evil being of whom the aborigines are much afraid.
Dekem-millia— Z«<. , 1 0,000.
Denari— Zffl^., a penny.
Deutero — Gr., second.
Dhakaria — pr.n., Zacliarias.
Dhakke — pr.7i., Zaccliaeus.
Dhelot — Gr., a zealot.
Diabol-lo or diabol-to — the devil, as an agent.
Diabol-kan — one having a de^-il.
Didathkalo (-oi) — Gr., teachei-.
Dodeka — Gr., twelve.
��E.
��E — sounds as a in Eng. ' may.' Ela or ala! — exdam., ho! hallo!
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