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VOCABULARY OF THE MT. SPENCER BLACKS. 



{d} BelatioTiships, etc. 

 Father= yah-poo 

 Daughter= nap-oo 

 Mother= yung-ah 

 Sweetheart= yung-un-ay, or 



bee-coo'-nah, or 



bee-coo 

 Wife= tem-bar-goo 

 Brother= at-tun'nah 



(e) Parts of the body. 

 Head=cutlab (not, as else- 

 where, kob'berrali) 



Hair=too-root 



Beard =mn'-kah or um'-kah 



(the mn a nasal grunt as in 



miralcoo) 

 Eye= tee-par- ree 

 Ear=wal-loo 

 Mouth= moo-noo 

 Teeth=yee-rah 

 Nose= wooh-tah 

 Breasts= nah-moon 

 Arm=moo-lah or mullah 

 (The vowel sound lies between 



00 and u) 



(f) Common actions. 

 Cut=bahm-boong'ee 

 Kill=gundan'gi or goon-dab- 



bah 

 Die=my-in'dee 



{g) Common adjectives. 

 Hungry= cop-per-rah 



(7t) Places. 



Cemetery=nah-wee-dah • 



Philologists must be careful not to conclude that a 

 similar or identical word in another part of Queensland is 

 reall}' the same, unless the meaning is also the same. As in 

 English, " box " has many meanings so " barree " in the 

 Mt. Spencer area has at least two different meanings. 



" Yerra " on the Burnett River may have no connection 

 with the Mt. Spencer " yeera," Wallumbilla in the Roma 

 area has nothing to do A\dth the Mt. Spencer " wallumbul " 

 any more thar " breede " in Dutch has to do with '' breeder '* 

 in English. 



Sister= goo-tang 

 Son= teed-yee-nah, or 



be-coo-nay (contrast be- 



coo-nah) 

 Boy= gan-doo 

 Girl=kj'-een 



Little girl=bee-jin'-a-nan 

 Old man=wat-yoo-ur'ren 



Palm of hand=mah 



Bowels=malcoo or walcoo 

 (The first consonant inter- 

 mediate between m and w, 

 like mw al'coo) 



Testicles=moon'-moor-ah (c/ 

 Moon-mera a township.) 



Anus=moo-]ah (r/ arm) 



Thigh= wah-cah 



Leg=tar-rah 



Shin=too-moo 



root=tid-nah 



Sole of foot=thee-nah 



Excrement = good- nah (as the- 

 township in the Moretoa 

 district) 



Swim=unt-al-lim bar' rah 

 Dive= my-oon-o-bo 

 Throw = bar- ree 



(Mountain also=bar-ree) 

 Corrobboree= wap-pee 



White=moo-rah 



