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THE SPEECH OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES. 



Oghnemipe, answer — o, prosthetic ; kan, speak ; mi, 

 to me ; pe, do. 



In the Vocabulary, p. xx., we find oghnamilce, ask, 

 which H. Ling- Roth endeavours to improve to ogna- 

 miHi (p. Ixix.). Tlie true solution is on p. xx., where we 

 find oghnemipe, answer. The oghnamilce is thus evi- 

 dently a badly transcribed ognamibe. An interesting 

 variant of the word is oangana, inform, tell, evidently a 

 form of kan-kan-a, speak with emphasis. 



Pakara, fling- — pa, forcibly ; kara, throw away. 



Papalawe, swallow (bird) — ^pe pe, very much ; li, 

 moving; we, active. 



Papla, big — pa pal, very round, stout, strong. 



Panubre, sun — pa, big, powerful ; nubre, eye. 



Pallanubrana, sun — pa, big; la, round, moving-; 

 nubra, eye. 



Papatongune, thunderstorm — pa pat, loud crash, 

 (onomatopoetic), ngune, fire; or else — pa pa, very big; 

 ton, falling. 



Poimatelina, lightning — pe, strike ; mate, dead ; lina, 

 like a spear, 



Pawe, small, rascal— pe pe, mere dot, small ; com- 

 pare German knabe, boy, and English knave, of no ac- 

 count. 



Pawawe, small boy — pe pe pe, just a series of dots. 

 We may also refer these two words to the " baby " group 

 (v. supra). 



Panubratone, dusk — panubra, sun ; tone, set. 



Panga, pinga, leech, small caterpillar — pena, lance 

 shape. 



Putia, none — paw, little ; itia, dimin. ; kss than little, 

 infinitely small, practically nothing. Here we have a 

 curious possibility of the instinctive perception of the 

 mathematical theory of limits. " Nothing-." being an ab- 

 stract idea, was beyond the gi'asp of the Aboriginal 

 mind. 



Puda, smoke — putia, unsubstantial. 



Patingunabe, extinguish — pat, stamp ; onomatopetic, 

 though it fits in with our " projection-^rest " ; ngune, 

 fire; be, do. 



Poina, hair (dressed in sticks)), fragrance (issuing 

 forth), entrails (in long strings), pettish (ready to take 



