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gartu (ka/lu, gatu), wife. 



gawana, uncle (father's or mother's brother). 



gidja, little, small; appears always to follow the noun: 



gu : rya gidja, a little child ; rjiirjki gidja, a small 



woman, 

 gudnju, white man. * 

 gu:7;a (guv/anja), child. 



gurana, good; gurana nipu, a good blackfellow. 

 jagana, sister or first cousin. 

 jaZi (je/i), man; >^aitju je/i, my husband; ja/i, gidja, a 



little man. 

 ja/ku, leg. 

 jambini, widower, 

 jarta (je/ta), land, soil, 

 jerabula, four; jerabula ja/i, four men; jerabula 



T/ari jaZi, five men. 

 jcerjka, beard, 

 juko (ju :ku), boat, 

 jury a, brother or first cousin. 



juT^gwidja, giving; baka juvygo, give (me) tobacco, 

 kadli (gadli), dog; gadli gidja, a little dog. 

 kaka (gaga), head; kaka wi:lja (gaga wilja), hair of the 



head; gaga buno, hat. 

 kaZa, fire. 



karnada (ga/'nara), hot wind, north wind. 

 kwi:ja, fish. 



maiji (maji), vegetable food, 

 mailku'wa^a, cheek. In the Adelaide language ''malta- 



worta" (T. and S., p. 18). ' 



maku, cloud. 



malabi, grandfather (father's father), 

 mandiku, net made of strips of opossum skin for carrying 



the baby, 

 manja, rain, 

 manjatu, cold. 



ma7;gadi, grandmother (father's mother). 

 maT/gara, girl, young woman; mar;ga mar/garidi, the 



Seven Sisters (Pleiades) ; maT/garidi was said to mean 



"the maids." The same name occurs in the Adelaide 



language as "mankamankarranna s.pl. (girls) the 



Pleiades" (T. and S., p. 19). 

 mar;guri, three; marjguri ja/i, three men. 

 ma7;gwidja, carrying off; nippu ma?;gwidja barla, the 



blackfellow carried off (another blackfellow's) wife, 

 mara, leaf, 

 maruga, widow, 

 mata, knee. 



