IN AUSTRALIA PHILOLOGICALLY EXAMINED. 119 
of Australian dialects are concerned. Turning to the gazetteers 
we find Awaba the native name of Lake Macquarie, Merriva, 
Boorowa, and Williwa Creeks. Wammerawa is the name given 
to the marshes into which the waters of the Macquarie River 
R -eay 
Donau on German maps. Here there can be no doubt about the 
connection between the two forms. The real root obviously is 
land illustrate the same point. Aw is water in Kurdish and Per- 
; Wai 
nawa to float. Vai is water in Rotumah, and the forms inwai, 
tavai, and tivai, meaning water, occur in the islands of the New 
Hebrides. 
Names of Streams in Bar, Par, War, Mar. 
The counter processes of lengthening and shortening could be 
well illustrated by tracing the history of names. Short words are 
par, war, and mar, are pretty extensively employed to designate 
water. The very form dar, pure and simple, is found meaning a 
was Ngaukiparri. At the lower end of the Murray, parnar me 
rain. Also poorai means rain at Eden, in New South Wales, 
