giadin gini m&ifi baigadi r t indi, mar,gadi gujunin, lerjn, banemi 

 sai j this man get-up you, take spear-yours, camp-yours, food 

 One man said: get up. take your spear, your camp and your food. 



mar.gadi girna wanabi 

 take here fire 

 n,kc the fire here. 



r^gadin r t ali gegada, niwi-ma nagiladia banana, winmuru 

 sit-will we above, close-by look-may food-for, sow-thistle 



WeMI stop up there, and you can look for food around there, such as sow- 

 thistles. 



gadini (fi^gada, bai mini buigadm 

 water stops oh! this fall-will 

 The water has stopped rising, oh! it will drop soon. 



mada-ma rtindi bambadia, winagada rfilan gini gadini 

 not-indeed you fear-may, leaves us this water 

 Don't be afraid, the water is leaving us now. 



bai ^ndi wegadi, waribadi, warjladi 

 Now! you laugh play sing 

 Now you can laugh and play and sing. 



Additional Vocabulary and Morphology 



, exclamation of surprise and of encouragement. 



This word shows the characteristic hnal -at which 

 is common in exclamations not only in the Kulin 

 languages, but over much of Australia. Cf. Madi- 

 madi gai "hey you". 



hed bed owlet nightjar. This was a bird of ill omen: it 



• - brought news of death. While discussing noc- 



turnal birds Jack Long recalled seeing the night 

 parrot long ago, but he had forgotten its name 

 in Madimadi. 



buindada at night. 



~ , 17 



January, 1971 



