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waru, fire. Given as the word for "fire" (warroo) by 

 W. W. Willsliire in his vocabulary of the language 

 spoken near Lake Amadeus (1891), p. 44. 



waru'jelta, cold (probably "fire-less"). 



wi : a, mother. 



Narrinyeri. 



Frank Blackmoor, a member of this well-known riverine 

 tribe, and who was living at Point Pearce at the time of my 

 visit, gave me the following list of v/ords, which approaches 

 nearer to Taplin's "standard Narrinyeri" than the vocabulary 

 published in a former volume of these Transactions 

 (xli., 8-12): — 



ka'lallin, hot, being hot; ka'lallin'ap, I am hot; 

 ka'lallin'and, you are hot; ka'lallin 'atj, he is hot; 

 ka'lallin 'ar, they are hot. 



ka:?', they, by them (nom. and cans, cases); shortened 

 to ar when following an intransitive verb, as in the 

 above example. 



ka'rawi, big; ka'rawi ko i^Tii, a big man. 



keili, dog; keilerjg, two dogs; keilar, dogs. 



ki:li, by him (causative case); ki:li an taminjuan 

 lya'/'akki, he is shooting a duck. The word an, "it," 

 is in apposition to rjsi'rakki, as the natives say in 

 English, "he shoot um duck." 



ki'riT/kari, white man. The origin of this word is fully 

 explained by Taplin, Manners S.A. Aborigines, 

 p. 37. 



ko:rni, man; ko:ni6r;g, two men; koi/'nar, men. 



ku:li, head; ku : li an wi:olan, (my) head aches. 



minj'indian taminjuil ? what have you shot? The first 

 part of this sentence sounds like one word, but is 

 evidently composed of three words : minj or minji, 

 what; indi, by you (causative ca-se) ; an, it (accusative 

 case) . 



moruwal'appa T^opinal, I am going out walking. The 

 first part of this phrase can be decomposed into the 

 "moru el ap" of Taplin's grammar, meaning "I will 

 go down," lit., "down will I"; the second part 

 represents Taplin's "ngoppun," walking, apparently 

 with the verbal suffix al (el), meaning "will," 

 repeated. 



mu:ara (muwara) windjeri, foot; muwara windjere/yg, 

 two feet. 



muru'lappi, small; muru'lappi konii, a small man. 



ni'neipaSar, three; ni'neipaSar keilar, three dogs. 



r]a,Ji\rii, pigface ( M esemhryanthemum) . 



T^ariryjeri, the Narrinyeri or Ngarringyeri language. 



