Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — 11. 181 



bisi, n. the sago palm ; sago. 



bis-uab, n. mourning armlets and leglets made of hisi leaves. 



bizar, (m), n. the purple yam. Cf. ketai. 



boa (m), n. the conch shell, = bu. 



bobata (m) n. a grandfather. 



boboam (m), n. a shell, {Ovulum). 



boboum (t, n), a shell ( Ovulum) = buboam. 



bobu, n. a rill, a stream, = bubu. 



boda-dogam (s), n. the left side. 



boda-get, w. the left hand. 



bogail bogail (?), Petelu kuikaiman bogailbogail gudotadiz, Peter 

 began to deny with cursing and swearing. Mark, xiv. 7 1 . 

 Cf. List of Introduced Words. 



bogi (s) n. a staff, a walking-stick. 



boi, boi, V. to come, = boie. 



boia (b), n. light, = buia. 



boibasamu (b), boibisom, n. the eyebrows, = babasam. 



boibata, n. a sister (see babato, barabato). 



boie, V. to come, = boi. 



boie (s), n. the voice. 



boil (Mb), n. a basket made of coco-palm leaf, Cf. baili. 



bokadongo, n. a circle. 



bom (m), n. a cluster of pandanus fruit. 



boradar, n. earth, = baradai, baradar. 



borbarado (?), noi gurugui nagepa puruka borbarado gamu asimpa 

 tana mulpa, he looked round about on them with anger. 

 Mark, iii. 5. 



borodan, = boradar. . 



borupudaizinga, n. crumbs ; magina kaziu borupudaizinga, the chil- 

 dren's crumbs. Mark, vii. 28. 



botainga = batainga ; mdge botainga, morning long before day. 



botaiginga, 



bradar (b), ad. here. 



bru, n. an anklet (332), 



brua (Mb), n. an anldet made of coco-palm leaf. 



bru-mada (m), n. the calf of the leg. 



bru-rida (m), n. the shin bone. 



bu, n. the conch shell, Fusus proloscidiferus, used as a trumpet 



