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similarly to that of the father, is also occasionally 
altered to that of the child, with the affix of arwer, or 
emarwer, as Kartulem arwer, the mother of Kartul, 
Memparnemarwer, the mother of Memparne, yet is 
the original name of the mother as often used as the 
paidronymic. Old men are frequently called by 
the name of the place which belongs to them, with 
the affix of bookola thus Mooroondooyo Bookola is 
the old man who owns Mooroonde, &c. 
At other times nicknames are given to natives, 
and so generally made use of by the others that the 
proper or original name becomes almost lost. Thus 
a native named Marloo, from a habit he had of 
looking about him and saying, “ I see, I see/’ is 
called Nairkinimbe, or the father of seeing. Another 
named Ngalle-ngalle is called Eukonimbe, the father 
of eukodko, from his being very fond of the cray- 
fish of that name, and so on. Other local appella- 
tions are given referring to some peculiarity of 
personal appearance, Parn-gang-gapko, the bald- 
headed, Towang Makkeroo, the broken-thighed, &c. 
Others again refer to family bereavements, as 
Rooptootarap, a father without children, Parnto- 
makker, a childless mother, Parnko, an orphan, 
Wirrang, one who has lost a brother, Rockootarap, 
one whose wife is dead, Thaltarlpipke, an unmarried 
man, Rartchilock, one who owns a wife, Rang, a 
widow, Waukerow, an unmarried woman, See. These 
are all distinctions, which though readily discoverable 
by a person tolerably well versed in the dialect, or 
