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THE SPEECH OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES. 



parawe, to throw, put, go away ; parapa or paraba, whale,, 

 porpoise (large, moving") ; perena (spear) ; poirina, por- 

 poise ; pora, heavy rain; proie, leaf- pruana, smoke. 



(7) Dental+guttural — rest+rejection: takani, tagara, 

 to g'o away (to lift up the foot from its resting position) ; 

 dogna (z^= tagana), foot ; takira, root, foot of tree ; tanga, 

 limpet ; tegana, heart (its beating being like rhythmic 

 footsteps) ; togane, paw, foot ; tokana, heel ; tugra, 

 thigh ; tugana, swift (of foot) ; tuganik, asleep (the pejo- 

 rative, ik. implying negation; tugana, to eat (passing 

 from rest to the motion of the gullet). 



(8) Dental+liquid — rest+motion : tale, toad, frog 

 (alternately resting and moving) ; talina, the back (un- 

 changing, but moving as part of the body) ; talpe, to. 

 come, start ofif ; tile, basket (an inanimate thing meant 

 to be carried) ; toline, bark of a tree (grown fast to the 

 trunk, l^ut liable to peel off) ; toluna, shoulder (compare 

 talina) ; tula, thigh, tongue (fixed, but movable). 



Tema, hut (movable resting place) ; time, never (really 

 " always," " resting or moving " ; compare the French 

 jamais, which also means " always " (from the Latin 

 jam, magis, i.e., now and evermore, and is used for 

 " never ") ; tome, to fall. 



Tana, was (looking back from the present moment) :. 

 tanate, mischief (pretending- to be resting, and yet mov- 

 ing to do some harm) ; tene, rib (compare talina) ; tena, 

 tree-fern (stationary, but growing) ; toni, tenine, nails on 

 fingers and toes (compare tena) ; tina, stomach (compare 

 tula) ; tona, spark ; tone, to dive, fall ; toni, to call (to 

 cause to move) ; tuna, Avinter, really " snow " (the solid, 

 falling thing) ; tunapi, to know (to have the skill to act). 



Tara, to weep, really " to sit down and sway the body 

 in token of grief" ; tara, tree (compare tena) ; tara. wal- 

 laby (compare tale); teri, basket (compare tile); terana, 

 terina, bones of skeleton (compare tene). The bones of 

 the body are stationary, but growing. In the skeleton 

 they are chiefly noticeable for being hard and dry. This 

 meaning" is transferred to teruna, tro-watta, flint imple- 

 ment ; torona, tree, is a form of tra-na ; tru, fist is so^ 

 called from its bony hardness ; tura, winter ; turana,. 

 snow ; turela, hail, arc forms of tuna. 



