IN AUSTRALIA PHILOLOGICALLY EXAMINED. 115 
lects. Jem is water in the Upper Sacramento in North America, 
Whatever may be the ultimate meaning or value of the foregoing 
facts, one point is clear, that the aborigines of Australia, in 
adopting largely the imitative m to denote water, have gone on 
the same principle as many other tribes of the human family in 
other parts of the world. 
Root-words for Water represented by MB. 
a mortal in Greek. With the primative a there would be 
day the Sabis of Cxsar is the Sambre. In this case both an m 
and an r have been added to the earlier form. Again, there 
of illustrations in cmb, gmb, kmb, with their phonetic equivalents. 
But proceeding with our task, and working up step by step to 
the combination of the letters mb in root-words for water. In 
the bulari Fe }, aE ee ary 
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a lasoo 
kalumbo, salt water, in Western Australia. In the gazetteers we 
find Amby Riverand Kinbo Creek, Vamby Creek Wambo Ponds,C ombo 
Creek Wecomba Lake, Mowamba River, Wallombi Brook, Yarz 
Creek. so, it is this combination of mb which supplies some of 
the most stately forms for names of streams, as Wa and 
Warragamba Rivers. Also, such a name as Tumby Island, in 
South Australia, illustrates the fact that root-words for water are 
used to denote islands and promontories. 
