852 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
This name was given to her as she was born in a place where, 
and at a season of the year when, the murnong was bitter. 
In all such compounds listed, the qualifying word is invariably 
placed first. 
Compounds also consist of an agglomeration of several words 
having syllable elided, as— 
Dajorongbullok, ‘‘ the eldest of two sisters’”—dajorong, implying priority 
of birth; bul, a contraction of bulad, two; and ok, a contraction of 
worok, female. 
Bukarbullok, is also formed of at least three abridged words, two having 
the end, and one the beginning cut off; bukariu, middle; bulad, two ; 
and yallok, water. Bukarbullok, ‘‘ Between two waters,” designates 
a corner of Marnock Vale, Geelong,* around which the Barwon sweeps 
in a horseshoe curve. 
Tarigemiretuk, eyelash—spears or reeds of the eye—comes by a similar 
agglutinating process—tare, spear or tark reed; 1(?); ge, of the; 
mirgnetuk, eye.+ 
Compounds with complete words juxtaposed, as Korong- 
wrong, &c., are no doubt more newly coined than those with 
elisions, the latter class having their edges, so to speak, rubbed 
off after long usage ; and no doubt the components of many of 
these will never be traced. 
PRONOUNS. 
Pronouns may be classified as personal and interrogative. 
‘Personal pronouns that stand alone, or that are used in answer 
to an interrogative of personal agency, are different from those 
that are used in connection with verbs, or in answer to a question 
of the act, eg., in answer to the question of personal agency, 
“Who speaks?” (Wela karing!) the answer would be, ‘“ Karing 
bangik,” (Speak I.) In answer to a question of the act, ‘“ What 
are you doing ?” the answer would be “ Kudgellengik,” (Eating I.) 
In this sentence 7&4 seems to be a contraction of the personal 
pronoun, bangik ; but in other interrogatives, we have other 
pronouns depending, it would seem, on the consonant with which 
the verb terminates. Hence it seems to us at present that there 
is an endless variety of pronouns in the language.” { 
* Similar contractions are found in the names of places in the Colac district. Lake 
Corangamite—Bitter water ; korine, bitter; gnubet, water. Lake Burrumbete—Round 
water; burum, round (?); gnubet, water. Wurdibulok—wurdi, large (?); bulad, two ; 
yallok, water. 
+ Ge in this example, in the Wod-dow-ro, Murgebulok, the brightness (?) of two waters—a 
spot at the junction of the rivers Leigh and Barwon—and in Tarntarnigelok, the good 
snaring water, may be a contraction of gewa, there. Some of the words given as deriva- 
tives are probably compounds. 
{ F. Tuckfield’s Journal. Draft of ‘‘ Report to the Rev. Secretary, Wesleyan Mission 
House, Hatton Garden, London.” June 31,1840. The quotation regarding trinal number 
given in my paper A Discovery in the Australian Language, is also from the above- 
mentioned draft. 
