Eay & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 221 



kutam ( ?), kutam titui, a species of hawk. 



kutapa, n. the evening. Cf. kut, kuta. 



kutapatai, 



kutau, 



kuto (s), n. the end, extremity of anything ; kabndan senabi pudau 



kutanu, put on the end of a reed. Mark, xv. 36. 

 kutoka (s), n. the end, = kuto. 

 kutra, n. evening, = kuta. [kutanu.] 

 kutrapa = kutapa. 

 kutuman = kuduman. 

 ku-u-rug (m), n. the ground dove. 



kuza. Mark, ix. 5. Apparently a misprint for kapuza. 

 kuzi (t), n. a species of hawk. 

 kwai (m), n. top of the head (?). 

 kwaimai (b), v. to scarify, to cut the skin so as to cause a raised 



cicatrix. (366.) 

 kwali (m), exclamation to arrest attention, 

 kwalamo (b), n. the shoulder blade. Cf. kolam, kolab. 

 kwasur, (quassur Macgillivray) (m), two, = ukasar. 

 kwateia (m), n. the back of the head. Cf. kuote. 

 kweada (m), n. the gromets on the backstays of a boat, 

 kwig (t), n. the head or skull, = kuiko. 

 kwik (Mb) = kwig ; merkai kwik, a head-dress used in the funeral 



dance ; kwik'uro (m) n. the general term for a fiUet worn on 



the head. Cf. uro. 

 kwir (s), n. a fight, 

 kwitoaean (quitoaean), v. to lose. 



kwiuro, n. the dart of a dugong spear " wap." Cf. kwoioro, kuiar. 

 kwod, n. the house set apart for men, or the open space in which 



sacred ceremonies take place. Mir. siriam ; taiokwod (t), 



n. the sacred meeting place for the initiation ceremonies 



(409). 

 kwodai, n. twisted native rope. 



kwoioro (Mb), n. the dart of a wap or dugong spear (351). 

 kwoikwig (b), first. 



kwokata (m), n. a frontlet of coco-palm leaf, 

 kwual, 11. a curlew, 

 kzoiol = kaziel. 



