Eay & Haddon — T//e Languages of Torres Straits — II. 291 



(h) Time.—Bedaiuio ? When ? What clay ? 

 ■ {c) Cause. — Ehitagido ? Why ? What for ? Ehitagido nou oriai? 

 Why did he die ? 



{d) Number. — Bedamota? (ks), bedanmtu? (k). How much? 

 How many ? 



The word ledar or leda (k) translates the Miriam naho ? Beda 

 didiri rogu ? What man comes ? 



2. Place : 



Naitawatawa (k). here ; noloi rom (k), here ; gonou, there (Mir. 

 dali), noloi, there (Mir. penoka) ; neletaromi (k), there ; gido (k), 

 further ; gaime, distant ; giatoa (k), distant ; mureso, far off ; uru, uru 

 ■ajpuo, out of sight ; uapureto, next ; taugo (ks), first ; dogole, round ; 

 eregetei (k), downwards; uege, back, alongside ; osua (k), upwards. 



3. Time: 



Ahara, now ; oiti, then ; diidiio, to-day ; ahrasai (k), to-day 

 {(Iraduo (k), to-night ; duo, in the night ; araporio, near sunrise 

 dudueri, duduaere (k), in the morning ; duduo sai (k), to-morrow 

 tvaraoit or uaro-ito (m), to-morrow; (^o^^'o, dogoaimi (k), by-and-by 

 duduata, duduata sai (k), yesterday ; duotau (m), yesterday ; duomutu 

 (k), day before yesterday, day after to-morrow ; duatata, on the third 

 day; tagara, tagaa (m), for a long time, long ago; nanito, always; 

 iporigaitato, unending, for ever ; sai siro, every day, daily. 



4. Mani^er : 



Dopi, likewise, also ; dogo, yet, continually ; mina, again, always ; 

 garigari, in vain; menae, secretly; uaito, carefully; naturai, only; 

 nouororo, like ; tamai, openly. 



§ VII. — Postpositions and Local Nouns. 



1. The use of the simple postpositions, used as suffixes, have been 

 illustrated in the sections on Nouns and Pronouns. 



They are ro, na, of ; gido, to, ito, to, for ; gaut, from ; ato, at, in ; 

 gomoa , with, by. 



2. As in Miriam and Saibai, some nouns are used with suffixes to 

 indicate positions. Those found are : ou, sky, top ; niro, inside ; iri, 

 back ; magumo, bottom ; tatari, a place near ; turi, middle. They 

 appear as ouato, above ; niroato, in the inside ; iriato, under ; irito edea, 

 put behind ; magumoato, under ; tatarito, to near ; turiat, among, 

 between. Sito, outside, is probably a word of the same kind. 



3. Other words given in the vocabularies as equivalents of the 



