Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 179 



bagur (m), n. pus. 



bai (s), n. grass. 



baibuli (b), n. an insect. 



baidam, baidamo, n. a shark ; baidam togui, a shark's fin, baidam- 



sai-togui, a shark's tail, 

 bai-ib (sr, m), n. the eyebrows. 

 baiidun, n. a shark, = baidamo. 



baili n. a basket made of the leaf of the coco-palm - boi. 

 bait (t, m), n. the cuscus (opossum of Cape York), = barit. 

 balbado n. coast. 

 balbai, a. crooked, bent, 

 balbaigi, a. not bent, straight, 

 balbaiginga, a. = balbaigi. 

 balbaig-palan, v. to put straight, to explain, 

 balbainga, a. crooked, wrong, 

 balbai-pudiz, v. to peep. 



balbai-tidan, balbai-tridan, v. to make straight, 

 balbai-tilam, v. to bend. 



balbai-tridaipa, v. to make straight, to rectify. 

 balo, n. breadth. 

 balopudan, see baropudaipa. 



balpudai (? root of baropudaipa), balpudai-doid, n. a market, 

 balopudan, balpudan, see baropudaipa. 

 baltariz, v. to stand still. Mark, x. 49. 

 bami-nadan (?), v. to put up with ; to suffer. Mark, ix. 19. 

 ban, misprint for bau. Mark, iv. 37. 

 bangal, n. the morrow, the next day, the day before. Mark, xv. 42 ; 



(m), two or three days hence. 

 banitan (?), Pilato koisarkoisar banitan sisike noi umanga, Pilate 



marvelled if he were already dead. Mark, xv. 44. 

 barabato (ii), n. a man's brother or woman's sister. In vocative only, 

 baradai (s), n. earth, soil. Cf. apa, J. 

 baradar, barador, n. earth, soil, ground. Cf . apa. [baradau, baradoran, 



baradaranu, bara doronu, baradarangu.] 

 baradi, n. a stony hill, 

 bardo, n. thatch. 

 bari (m), n. grass. 

 baribara (b), n. a coconut, used for drinking purposes. 



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