Dictionary

i
  1. come. Baby talk, usually used with very small children only. Used only as a command.
noun
  1. species of bloodwood tree
trv
  1. ask. "Ngayu nyungundu babajin, Wanju nyulu?" "I asked him, Who is he?"
trv
  1. try. "ngayu baduriji dungaka, yinya bubu babanka", "I want to go fishing to try the place out"
  2. taste. "ngayu mayi wayjul-wayjul, babal saltmunku", "While I'm cooking the food I'll taste it for salt"
n
  1. anglefish
n
  1. older sister. "Yabaju-karra babarranda dungan mayika", "The younger brothers went to their older sister for food"
n
  1. grandmother, father's mother. "Babingka jija kujin-kujil", "Grand mother is looking after her grandchild"
  2. grandfather, mother's father
dir
  1. down, down river, down hill. "Ngayu bada beachmunbu dungan", "I went to the beach"
intrv
  1. bend down. "Yungu dukul badamaka", "You bend your head down"
dir
  1. underneath, below. "Kaban bada-bada tablebu", "The paper is under the table"
intrv
  1. to cry, "karrakay badin mayika", "the child cried for food"
  2. to wail, mourn. "jana banbadi yaba wulanya", "They are wailing because their older brother died"
  3. to sing. "Dikal yalibalaku banbadin", "The birds were singing early in the morning"
  4. to howl. "kaya-kaya banbadin majangka bawanya", "the dogs were howling because their master left them"
n
  1. spotted eagle ray
n
  1. hook and line. "ngayu badurriji bundanday", "I'm fishing (sitting with hook and line)"
mod
  1. again. "jana kuljubu jarba kunin baja, kunin baja", "They hit the snake again and again with stones"
  2. more. "yundu wunay baja?", "do you have more?"
  3. I don't know. "ngayu wanyu baja balkal", "I don't know what to tell" (This is used only with a question word)
n
  1. blue-tongue lizard
  2. place name. spring above middle camp, story site
intrv
  1. tired. "ngayu baja-burray jilbamun", "I'm tired after the walkabout"
mod
  1. very. "jana mayi jirray ajaku manin storemun", "They got very much food from the store"
  2. definitely. "ngayu kari bajakudungay", "I'm definitely not going"
  3. shows intensity. "nyulu bama bajaku", "he's a real aboriginal"
n
  1. species of bower bird"
n
  1. species of rock python. Not many at Bloomfield, but many at Helenvale, Rossville and Shiptons Flats. They have a white head and will chase bald-headed people not wearing a hat beecause they think they are being copied
noun
  1. stubborn
noun
  1. Moreton Bay ash.
noun
  1. Moreton Bay ash.
noun
  1. loya vine fern leaves, used in making mia-mia
noun
  1. loya vine fern leaves, used in making mia-mia
adjective
  1. painful. "Bangkarr bajaybajay flumunmun", "My body is sore after the fly"
noun
  1. a sore
noun
  1. bone
noun
  1. lump on neck
noun
  1. nuisance. "Yinya karrkay bajurr bajaku", "That child is a big nuisance"
transitive-verb
  1. to scold. "Ngayu kangkal bajurr-bangkan, nyulu cassette dumbarrinya", "I scolded my child because he broke the cassette"
noun
  1. slippery lizard
transitive
  1. dig. "Jana bubu bakan", "They dug a hole"
  2. stab, prick. "Sisterrangka needleda bakan", "Sister gave me a shot (pricked with a needle)"
noun
  1. green pigeon
noun
  1. ridge pole
noun
  1. short light brown or yellow water snake
noun
  1. toys with wheels. English loan word from buggy.
noun
  1. place name, the river and ground at Butcher's Hill
noun
  1. place name, point off Snapper Island
noun
  1. poison plant found at Rossville.
  2. tobacco. This is no longer in use for tobacco.
noun
  1. feathertail flider or sugar glider
adjective
  1. skinny, weak from sickness or not enough to eat. "Yundu balaman mayi karimun", "You became skinny from not having enough food"
noun
  1. place name. Plantation Creek and the ground around its mouth
noun
  1. boil
adj
  1. level, flat
  2. a "Yundu balnhi wunay, bayan ngara bubunga balanbalanba.", "When you camp out, you should build your shelter on flat ground"
noun
  1. high tide
  2. place name - Okay Creek ground
noun
  1. human body flea
noun
  1. queenfish
adjective
  1. level ground
adjective
  1. pregnant
trv
  1. shine "Wungaraba dayirr bajaku balban." , "The sun shone brightly"
noun
  1. lightning "Balbaynja dalbarrinji", "Lighting might strike"
trv
  1. hunt for, search for
adj
  1. leaky, "Bayan balibali, bana walalarrku", "The house is leaky, the water is coming in."
noun
  1. people belonging to open country
noun
  1. A kind of food. It is coked in the fire, groud up and eaten.
noun
  1. ladie's dilly bag, made from grass or black palm
noun
  1. something fishy
  2. place name, mouth of Bloomfield River, south side
intransitive-verb
  1. to be born, to come into being
  2. place name, mouth of Bloomfield River, south side
  3. being, "ngawa yilayku balkajin", "the baby was born yesterday"
  4. being, "nganka balkajinda", "there are are flowers now"
transitive-verb
  1. tell, "ngayu yunundu balkankuda", "I already told you"
  2. make, "nyulu kalka balkan", "he made a spear"
intransitive-verb
  1. discuss
  2. talk together
noun
  1. species of tree
noun
  1. not quite fully grown
  2. boy's age before he becomes a warru
modifier
  1. doing something right
  2. properly with a fire as in cooking or hardening spears over a fire
  3. doing something right, "minya balnji baja wayju", "cook the meat properly"
  4. camping out, "jana balnji wunanay", "they are camping out"
associative
  1. not want, "ngayu diyika baluda", "I don't want any tea right now"
  2. don't want
modifier
  1. contrary to fact thought, "balu nyulu kadan", "I thought he came but he didn't"
  2. almost, just about, "ngayu balu jukijuki kunin", "I almost hit the chicken"
  3. allow, let, "diyi balu bujarmaka", "let the tea get cool"
noun
  1. shell back snail
noun
  1. spear thrower
noun
  1. people, mankind
  2. mankind
  3. aborigine, not a white person
exclamation
  1. my word, "bama ngaykunku, nganya balu kunijinkuda", "my word, I was almost hit"
transitive verb
  1. call by kinship term, "ngayu nyungunin bambal babi", "I call her grandmother"
  2. choose in the sense of claim
adjective
  1. me first
  2. first in line
  3. first to get something
adjective
  1. sick
noun
  1. a sickly person
noun
  1. a long thin variety of yam
noun
  1. water
noun
  1. place name - the ground at the mouth of the Bloomfield River on the south side through where Mr. Biddle's mission used to be
noun
  1. the people that belong to the mouth of the river and along the beach
  2. people who belong to Banabila
noun
  1. pineapple
noun
  1. name given to a doctor man
  2. doctor
noun
  1. fresh water snake
  2. snake
noun
  1. place name - Spring Vale
noun
  1. point of tail
  2. tip of tail
noun
  1. species of tree
  2. also the fruit of the tree which is like a small cherry, ripe in December
noun
  1. waist on the side above the hips
  2. love handles
transitive verb
  1. to sing, shout, cry loudly, "kaykay-kaykayangka wulngku bangka-bangkangan", "the children sang loudly"
  2. sing
  3. shout
  4. wail
  5. cry loudly
transitive verb
  1. gather, accumulate, "ngayu Brisbane dungan, toy, kambi bangkal-bangkan yabaju-karragna", "When I went to Brisbane, I got (gathered) toys and clothing for my younger brothers"
noun
  1. tongs made from voya vine, used in cooking in a kurrma - an earth oven
noun
  1. place name of ground where Grass tree and Bijan creeks meet.
noun
  1. sweet potato
noun
  1. a kind of root, a medecine for sores. Boil the roots and wash the sores with the water.
noun
  1. a person's body, his flesh
adjective
  1. a person who is a nuisance
adjective
  1. a person who is in a hurry
adjective
  1. sick
adjective
  1. person who shows mercy
adjective
  1. humble
noun
  1. cousin
  2. full blood cousin
noun
  1. species of wild yam, small and round. They are roasted in the fire, ground up and eaten. Given to the child to make it talk.
noun
  1. relationship term, brother-in-law or sister-in-law. This shows actual relationship, not tribal relationship, someone who marries your actual brother or sister.
transitive verb
  1. to feel something, "nyulu nguwul-nguwulbu torch baran-baral", "He was feeling for his torch in the dark"
noun
  1. road, path, track, trail
noun
  1. young cassowary
adjective
  1. pale, as from sickness
noun
  1. half-caste
noun
  1. chin
  2. jaw
noun
  1. Moreton Bay fig tree
noun
  1. species of small bird
noun
  1. Queensland nut, ripe in July-October
  2. yellow water snake
noun
  1. place name - in the China camp area
noun
  1. lap, "nyulu karrkay barunga kujil-kujil", "she is holding the child in her lap"
  2. lap, "nyulu karrkay baru-baka", "The child is spoiled - always wanting to be held"
adjective
  1. flat
noun
  1. black bream
noun
  1. person with a bad leg or arm, lame, crippled.
noun
  1. upper jaw
adjective
  1. not good at something
transitive verb
  1. escort, to take a person somewhere, "ngayu jinkurr barrman kaminda", "I took younger sister to grandmother"
transitive verb
  1. to leave something or some place, "ngayu Bloomfield bawan, Mossman dungan", "I left Bloomfield and went to Mossman"
  2. to quit something, "Kuyungku kari bajaku baykan, ngayu badu bawanda", "the fish wouldn't bite so I quit fishing"
intransitive verb
  1. stay, remain, is left, "jana bayanbaku dungan ngayu bawajin", "they all went home but I stayed"
noun
  1. black bean tree
noun
  1. flame, fire
  2. fire, "baya wayu", light a fire
  3. firewood, "nyulu baya mujan", "he collected firewood"
noun
  1. house, camp, shelter
noun
  1. pipe
noun
  1. fresh water perch
noun
  1. peewee, mud shark
noun
  1. premature child, "yinya ngawa bayin bajaku", "That baby is very premature"
  2. very small child
  3. child spirit
transitive-verb
  1. ignore, don't pay attention to
adjective
  1. restless, always moving about
transitive-verb
  1. bite, "kayangka bikibiki baykan, kujinkuda", "the dog bit the pig and held on"
intransitive-verb
  1. ache, pain, "ngayu dukal baykal", "my head aches"
intransitive-verb
  1. ache, pain, "ngayu dukal baykal", "my head aches"
noun
  1. large mud clam
noun
  1. shin, ankle
noun
  1. breast
  2. breast milk, "nyulu karrkay banbadi bibi nukanka", "The baby is crying, he wants to feed"
noun
  1. place name - Helenvale
noun
  1. place name - close to Ten Mile and upper reaches of the Daintree river
noun
  1. bank bird
transitive-verb
  1. to lick, "karrkayangka icecream cone bijan", "The child licked the icecream cone"
noun
  1. five corner nut, found in the scrub
  2. place name, a hill near China Camp with lots of five corner nuts
noun
  1. dream
transitive-verb
  1. to dream, "ngayu kurriyala bijarrin", "I dream about a carpet snake"
noun
  1. tail
noun
  1. stern of a boat
noun
  1. species of tea tree
noun
  1. fishy smell or taste
noun
  1. a kind of grub used for bait
  2. species of tree and its fruit. The fruit must be cooked first.
noun
  1. pig
transitive-verb
  1. to study something
auxilary
  1. fast, rapid, "bana-bila", "fast running water"
  2. fast, rapid, "bangkarr bila", "a person in a hurry"
noun
  1. flat-tailed ray
intransitive-verb
  1. homesick
noun
  1. blanket
noun
  1. grass used to make dilly bags
noun
  1. candle nut tree. The nuts are edible after roasting.
noun
  1. gecko
noun
  1. eyebrow or eyelash
noun
  1. small shark which comes around mangroves and in the river
  2. black-tip shark
noun
  1. salt water crocodile
noun
  1. spoon bill bird
noun
  1. father's sister
  2. aunty
noun
  1. father's sister
  2. aunty
noun
  1. scrub wallaby
associative
  1. to know, "ngayu binal kari", "I don't know"
  2. to know, "Ngayu binal-binalku bundanka", "I want to know"
transitive-verb
  1. teach, "teacherangka kaykay-kaykay binal-bungan-bungal", "The teacher is teaching children"
intransitive-verb
  1. to go back to get something you left
associative
  1. remember
noun
  1. rudder, for steering
noun
  1. frill necked lizard
noun
  1. shoulder
  2. fork in a tree or river
noun
  1. place name - top of divide btween the Daintree and Bloomfield watersheds
transitive-verb
  1. run someone down, gossip, "jana bama yindu binda-damal-damal", "They are running someone else down"
  2. explain, describe
noun
  1. place name - Stoney crossing in the upper Daintree River
noun
  1. place name - along Daintree River
noun
  1. place name - upper Daintree River
noun
  1. any broad leaf
noun
  1. black snake
noun
  1. wrongly married according to tribal law
  2. poorly made or cooked, "binju tea", "tea that is too strong"
  3. small black snake, light or reddish belly, poisonous
noun
  1. scarlet robin
noun
  1. honey eater bird
noun
  1. old man or men
adjective
  1. white or light colored
noun
  1. white-haired man or woman
noun
  1. species of tree with long finger-like seed which people used to eat but don't anyore. A white man supposedly got blind from eating it.
noun
  1. shooting star
  2. the spirit of a dead person which becomes a shooting star, someone recently dead. If you see a shooting star you know someone has or will soon die, as the shootying star can come before or during death.
noun
  1. windbreak
noun
  1. grey March fly
noun
  1. curse plate. The face of the wrong-doer is painted on a piece of wood with charcoal. It is hung up and as it is twirling, the curse takes effect on the wrong-doer.
noun
  1. centipede
noun
  1. straw-necked ibis, which is the totem of the walarr moiety
noun
  1. bee eater, rainbow bird
noun
  1. yolk of the egg
noun
  1. paddle, oar. Often contracted to biruwybay or birubay
transitive-verb
  1. to row
noun
  1. leaf
  2. lungs
noun
  1. parrot, parakeet, lorikeet
noun
  1. fingernail, toenail
manner
  1. natural death
noun
  1. kind of bad spirit
  2. a bad, savage person
  3. derogatory term for a white man
noun
  1. wife
noun
  1. mother in law
  2. name of seprate language used to speak to in-laws
manner
  1. sitting with hands holding legs, "Nyulu biwurku bundanday", "He is sitting with his hands holding his legs"
noun
  1. purpoise, dugong, sea cow
  2. iron
noun
  1. gristle, sinew, string, blood vessel (especially wallaby tail sinew)
noun
  1. yam, which must be first roasted, then ground, then leached for a couple huors in many changes of water before it can be safely eaten
noun
  1. nyungkal - turtle spear point
  2. yalanji kurajan.
noun
  1. species of tree snake
noun
  1. small amount, "ngayu money buban wunay", "I have only a little bit of money"
  2. short time, "nyulu buban bundan", "He stayed a little while"
intransitive verb
  1. jumble, unimportant
noun
  1. groud, earth. "kambi bubujida", "the clothes are dirty now"
  2. a person's country, where he belonds, "nyungu bubu Shipton's Flats", "his country is Shipton's Flats"
noun
  1. spring at Middle Camp
noun
  1. Butcher's hill
noun
  1. Plantation Creek area
noun
  1. Oaky Creek
noun
  1. Olbar's camp
noun
  1. Springvale
noun
  1. Shipton's Flat area, a junction of Grasstree and Bijan creeks
noun
  1. near China Camp
noun
  1. Helenvale (warrkin)
noun
  1. Ten mile area
noun
  1. near China Camp
noun
  1. near China Camp
noun
  1. near China Camp
noun
  1. China Camp
noun
  1. Thompson Creek Camp
noun
  1. Middle camp
noun
  1. skill in rocks
noun
  1. Stucky's Gap
noun
  1. coconut grove across from mill
noun
  1. Billygoat Creek
noun
  1. Romeo area
noun
  1. Roy Haach's old farm
noun
  1. Daintree (site of old bama camp)
noun
  1. Collin's Hill
noun
  1. Bailey's Creek
noun
  1. Harry Dick's place
noun
  1. Black Mountains (also the caves there)
noun
  1. see jalundurr list
noun
  1. top end of Watermelon Creek
noun
  1. Roaring Meg Falls
noun
  1. Tribulation
noun
  1. Bailey's Creek
noun
  1. near China Camp
noun
  1. Shipton's Flats
noun
  1. summit between Bloomfield and Rossville (sea view)
noun
  1. upper Watermelon Creek
noun
  1. Rattlesnake Point (story site)
noun
  1. Gold Hill
noun
  1. Wallaby Creek bridge
noun
  1. near China Camp
noun
  1. Wtermlon Creek
noun
  1. Wtermlon Creek
noun
  1. Annan River area (between the Annan and the Bloomfield turnoff)
noun
  1. Shpton's Flat area (near the fork of Grasstree Creek)
noun
  1. Jubilee
noun
  1. Mt. Peter Botte
noun
  1. Wayalla Plains (upper end of Plantation Creek)
noun
  1. Emojin Beach
noun
  1. Romeo area
noun
  1. rock in Bloomfield River
noun
  1. Grasstree (story site)
noun
  1. Wayalla Plains
noun
  1. present Mission site
noun
  1. Mt. Alexandra
noun
  1. Tourist camp
noun
  1. Mt. Poverty
noun
  1. Annan River
noun
  1. Mt. Yumalba, a montain new Mt. Poverty
noun
  1. Cebar Bar
noun
  1. Rattlesnake Point and Fritz Creek (story site)
noun
  1. Plantation Creek
noun
  1. north side of Bloomfield River mouth
noun
  1. south side of Bloomfield River mouth
noun
  1. south side of Bloomfield River mouth
noun
  1. tourist fishing camp
noun
  1. Kangkiji (north end)
noun
  1. Harry Dick's area
noun
  1. southwards
noun
  1. southwards (story site of wind)
noun
  1. cave (story site)
noun
  1. two jutting stones (snake story site)
noun
  1. southwards
noun
  1. southwards
noun
  1. Cowie Beach
noun
  1. Emogin Beach
noun
  1. Coconut grove near mouth of creek
noun
  1. lower end of Emogin (story site, big footprint)
noun
  1. Cape Tribulation
noun
  1. creek south of Tribulation
noun
  1. next ground south
noun
  1. kulngurbu
noun
  1. Bailey's Creek
noun
  1. Bailey's Creek
noun
  1. point off Snapper Island
noun
  1. Snapper Island
noun
  1. Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. stony crosing
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. junction to Gold Hill
noun
  1. upriver Daintree
noun
  1. top of divide
noun
  1. Bloomfield
noun
  1. larvae and eggs of any kind of bee
noun
  1. boys from the time they are babies - ngawa - to older boys - warru
noun
  1. black messenger bird, totem of both dabu and walarr moieties
noun
  1. small black bee which nests in trees, has a light sting
  2. the honey from this bee
  3. the name of one of the clan moieties
noun
  1. pierced nose and nose peg. The piecing is always done by a man's biwul, his mother in law. Biwulungku dabul bakan. "My mother in law pierced his nose"
  2. place name - between upper Daintree River and Roaring Meg. The big rock here is a jarramali (thunder) and nose piecing story site.
noun
  1. human shin bone, for conveying messages to someone. The hollow bone is also used to catch a person's shadow which is then closed up inside the bone. This is then used to put withcraft on the person. He may also put a person's urine or other belonging inside.
noun
  1. brackish swamp water
noun
  1. small brownish kingfisher, totem of both dabu and walarr moieties. When this bird starts singing yo know you will get company, that someone is travelling.
  2. spirit
noun
  1. fighting spear
noun
  1. deep water
noun
  1. brothers and sisters
noun
  1. person's spirit after death. "Nyulu jalbu wulan, yinyayanka jana nyungu dajay warrmba-bunganka." "The woman died, that's why they want to find her spirit". Afer a dambunji (murderer) kills a person, the murdered person becomes a dajay. The witch doctor (rrunyuji) will then try to locate this dajay in order to ascertain who did the killing. All people's spirits become a dajay after death, not only those who are murdered.
transitive-verb
  1. give
  2. gave
transitive-verb
  1. give
intransitive-verb
  1. trade
intransitive-verb
  1. climb. "nyulu jukungu dakan", "he climbed the tree"
  2. get into a truck or car, "nyulu truckmunbu dakan", "he got on the truck"
noun
  1. trocus shell
transitive-verb
  1. to break something down
  2. destroy
  3. delberately drop something
  4. push someone down, to do anything of this sort, if you lose your temper, to call attention to oneself if one feels he has been wronged in some way. "Dingkarangka karrkay dakandin kuli-kadanymundu" "The man dropped the child because he was angry"
noun
  1. lazy or in the way. "Yundu daki-daki, dungayda", "You are lazy, get out of my way"
noun
  1. arm, branch of a tree, wing
noun
  1. branches of a tree
noun
  1. cup
  2. panninkin, only rarely used now.
noun
  1. water gum tree (nyungkul dialect). "yalanji-jinajina", "This wood is good for woomeras"
noun
  1. brown and white scrub bird. The male has brown on the top of his head, a white strip past the eye. Tey clear an area, then many form a circle with on in the middle and the middle one will sing and dance.
noun
  1. hammer bird, totem of the walarr moiety
adjective
  1. hungry
noun
  1. species of oak tree
noun
  1. strike by lightning. "balbaynja juku dalbarrin", "the lightning struck the tree"
  2. ricochet, as a stone striking another stone and bouncing off or a person throwing a spear at a sea turtle and the spear glancing off the shell
  3. to quickly scold someone and then quickly leave. "bamangka kukubu dalbarrin", "the man scolded (him), (then left)"
noun
  1. freshwater sardine, red
noun
  1. species of tree, grows along beaches
noun
  1. bladder
intranstive-verb
  1. hatch. "warngku 10-bala, kaykay-kaykay dalkay", "after 10 days the little ones hatch out"
transitive-verb
  1. to blow up, as to blow up a balloon
  2. to break in little pieces, as a bottle
noun
  1. to beat up. "nyulu ngamungku karrkay dalkijin", "the mother beat up the child"
transitive-verb
  1. to crack a nut or whip,or shoot a gun
  2. to give a name or call a person by a name. "ngayu nyungunyin burri dalkin carol", "I gave her the name Carol"
noun
  1. archer fish (nyungkul dialect)
  2. yalanji - mujarrka
noun
  1. flathad (also dukul-barangka)
adjective
  1. well able to do something, courageous. (synonym - muna, burrkul-dandi)
noun
  1. flames which make light. "baya dalngarri-bunga", "make the fire give light"
  2. urine. "ngayu dalngarrinji dungay", "I have to go to the toilet"
transitive-verb
  1. to spear. "nyulu kalkabu kuyu daman", "he speared a fish with a spear"
  2. to sea. "ngayu kambi daman", "I made the dress"
  3. to baptise. "pastorangka nyungun banabu dukul daman", "the pastor baptised him"
  4. to wash. "nyulu yinkinba kambi daman", "she washed clothes in the creek"
transitive-verb
  1. twirl a fire drill
intransitive-verb
  1. fight with spears
noun
  1. damper
noun
  1. shoes, boots, thongs, footwear
noun
  1. a spirit who kills people
noun
  1. a person who is possed with a spirit who kills, a murderer
noun
  1. king fish
  2. flat head
noun
  1. chestnut horse
noun
  1. yellow freshwater eelfish
adjective
  1. hard, tough
  2. healthy, strong
pro-noun
  1. King's Plains, a place
adjective
  1. baggy, sloppy
noun
  1. bambo spear stick
intransitive-verb
  1. fall
transitive-verb
  1. to drop something
noun
  1. boxwood tree, grows mainly in high places
noun
  1. kind of nut
noun
  1. small mud clam
adjective
  1. narrow
  2. too small
noun
  1. so small that other things/people are being forced/squeezed out
noun
  1. grass wallaby
transitive-verb
  1. deny relationship with someone
noun
  1. magpie
noun
  1. kingfish, trevally
noun
  1. star
noun
  1. straw hat
transitive-verb
  1. command form of give
adjective
  1. clean, clear, bright
noun
  1. teapot
noun
  1. rainbow bird, honey eater
noun
  1. cane
noun
  1. seed
  2. egg
  3. bullet
  4. tablets
noun
  1. eyeball
transitive-verb
  1. to put clothes on
transitive-verb
  1. say something bad about someone
noun
  1. mayfly, dragonfly
noun
  1. species of freshwater fish, like the jungle perch - bayi - but not around here. Found at Rossville and Shipton's Flats
noun
  1. willie wagtail
noun
  1. bird
noun
  1. young cassowary
noun
  1. bower bird
noun
  1. green pigeon
noun
  1. scrub bird, dark grey with white breast
noun
  1. mudlark (peewee)
noun
  1. bank bird
noun
  1. spoon bill
noun
  1. scarlet robin
noun
  1. species of honey eater
noun
  1. straw-necked ibis
noun
  1. rainbow lorikeet (parakeet)
noun
  1. bee eater, rainbow bird
noun
  1. black bird
noun
  1. straw-necked ibis
noun
  1. pheasant cookoo
noun
  1. frogmouth, mopoke
noun
  1. spirit bird
noun
  1. a type of bird called buyi
noun
  1. small brown kingfisher
noun
  1. black messenger bird
noun
  1. brown and white scrub bird
noun
  1. hammer bird
noun
  1. species of magpie
noun
  1. rainbow bird
noun
  1. willie wagtail
noun
  1. species of seagull
noun
  1. migratory bird
noun
  1. scrub turkey
noun
  1. golden whistler
noun
  1. white crane
noun
  1. friarbird
noun
  1. swift
noun
  1. scrub hen, jungle fowl
noun
  1. chicken hawk (goshawk)
noun
  1. night bird
noun
  1. messenger night bird
noun
  1. pheasant cuckoo
noun
  1. bronzewing dove
noun
  1. moomoo bird (owl)
noun
  1. seashore plover
noun
  1. satin bower bird
noun
  1. black cockatoo
noun
  1. species of crow
noun
  1. species of owl
noun
  1. species of hawk
noun
  1. black diver bird
noun
  1. stockwhip bird
noun
  1. blue mountain parakeet
noun
  1. brown pigeon
noun
  1. specis of dove
noun
  1. black cockatoo (nyungkul)
noun
  1. butcherbird
noun
  1. species of seagull
noun
  1. cassowary
noun
  1. native companion
noun
  1. species of magpie
noun
  1. stormbird
noun
  1. sentry bird
noun
  1. bronze wing pigeon
noun
  1. bush curlew
noun
  1. azure kingfisher
noun
  1. kidney bird
noun
  1. species of dove (ground pigeon)
noun
  1. english name unknown
noun
  1. duck
noun
  1. waterhen
noun
  1. torres strait island pigeon
noun
  1. species of crow
noun
  1. species of crow
noun
  1. red backed sea eagle
noun
  1. turkey, domestic
noun
  1. grey sea eagle
noun
  1. species of owl
noun
  1. forest kingfisher
noun
  1. fig parrot
noun
  1. magic to make people sick
  2. Thompson Creek camp
noun
  1. the people living originally at Thompson Creek.
noun
  1. war spear, has a stingray barb
noun
  1. waterlilly (edible)
noun
  1. zig-zag above Thomas Creek (place name)
noun
  1. hictory tree (a type of tree)
noun
  1. corkwood pine; the tree from whicch witchetty comes
pronoun
  1. Middle camp (place name) also rock in river. (story site)
noun
  1. behind the house
noun
  1. hollow trunk of a tree
noun
  1. one who talks to the spirits of the dead
noun
  1. spirit. After a man is murdered by a dambunji, the dimur-dimur sucks the blood of the man who was killed to make him alive again.
noun
  1. a person who is able to summon up the dead
transitive-verb
  1. to roast on coals
directional
  1. middle, in between
noun
  1. base of a tree
  2. end of something
transitive-verb
  1. squeeze, knead
noun
  1. male, man, boy
noun
  1. a type of tree
noun
  1. bell (english loan word)
adjective
  1. part, part full, part way
noun
  1. sandfly
noun
  1. cream of tartar
  2. fur
  3. finecut tobacco
  4. powder
noun
  1. fine, finely ground
adjective
  1. smooth, as rock surface
noun
  1. tooth
noun
  1. a person who swears a lot, uses a lot of foul language
intransitive-verb
  1. to grind one's teeth, to gnash one's teeth
adjective
  1. dislike
noun
  1. seagull which gives warning of an approaching storm
  2. music struck as a warning that a big corroboree is about to start
  3. message to a dead person to not make it a long night. This is done on the night the corpse is in the house
noun
  1. migratory bird
noun
  1. scrub turkey
noun
  1. tea
noun
  1. coolamon
  2. bark coffin or container for dead who were then placed in a cave
adjective
  1. level or flat place
noun
  1. The Daintree side of Rocky Point (place name)
noun
  1. generic term for spirit
  2. the spirit of a dead person
noun
  1. stone skull along path on top of the zig-zag (story site)
noun
  1. directional sign, one placed in position, (not a motion), as a heap of stones or grass twisted to point the way
  2. ring of soft materials to put on women's for carrying things
transitive-verb
  1. knock, clap
transitive-verb
  1. corroboree singing
noun
  1. blunt
noun
  1. bush, weeds, tangled growth
noun
  1. locust, large cicada found in mountains
noun
  1. kind of fruit (fig) that is edible after roasting
noun
  1. bent
noun
  1. head
  2. bow of boat
  3. boss, from English
  4. head on a tape recorder
noun
  1. skull
adjective
  1. stubborn
adjective
  1. sorrow
  2. to feel sleepy as if with a heavy head
adjective
  1. really angry
noun
  1. flathead, species of fish.
noun
  1. broad-leafed bush that can be used as cover for a dirt oven, kurrma.
noun
  1. species of small lizard with big head
noun
  1. bush medicine
noun
  1. golden whistler
noun
  1. inside
  2. mind
adjective
  1. retarded
noun
  1. burnt patch of grass
noun
  1. white crane
noun
  1. umbrella palm
  2. name of a place at Stucky's Gap
adjective
  1. wide
noun
  1. reef
transitive-verb
  1. break, tear, rip
intransitive-verb
  1. broke
noun
  1. any hard covering such as bark of a tree, crust of bread, shell of turtle
noun
  1. chest
  2. hillside
noun
  1. a person facing south, or the slope of a hill facing south
noun
  1. wet
intransitive-verb
  1. go. This is contracted to duway in fast speech.
adjective
  1. huge, enormous
noun
  1. bad spirit who in form of a crocodile, covered with crocodile skin
noun
  1. a growth on the bottom of a foot
noun
  1. soda bicarb
noun
  1. coarse, rough
adjective
  1. having lots of knobs, spikes, thorns, etc
  2. coarse
noun
  1. islander
noun
  1. husband
adjective
  1. tricky
  2. clever
noun
  1. caterpillar, worm
noun
  1. species of tree and its edible fruit
  2. spears made from this wood
noun
  1. fighting stick
noun
  1. a greedy person who has eaten all the food
noun
  1. white-tailed rat
noun
  1. toe
intrasitive-verb
  1. walk on tiptoe
adjective
  1. puzzled
noun
  1. black palm
  2. black palm spear
noun
  1. stick, sapling, post, walking stick, horn
adjective
  1. adult
  2. ready or big enough for eating, big
noun
  1. home of the ancestors
  2. Maytown language for storm
noun
  1. Japanese (english loan word)
noun
  1. baldy gum tree
noun
  1. blank ant. Also their nest in rotten logs.
transitive-verb
  1. kick
noun
  1. scrub lizard
adjective
  1. taboo
noun
  1. taboo ground
noun
  1. thunder out west, the start of all storms
adjective
  1. missed, as missed hearing it
  2. not strong enough
noun
  1. leg of a beast
noun
  1. bananas
noun
  1. sand goanna. Only old people are allowed to eat it.
noun
  1. pandanus tree (screw palm)
  2. name of lower (bottom) camp in Ayton where there are lots of pandanus trees
noun
  1. sacred/taboo
transitive-verb
  1. to stand something up
  2. bail up, put up an animal
noun
  1. friar bird (leather-head)
noun
  1. full
noun
  1. mouse
  2. door, front
adjective
  1. ahead, in front of, before
time
  1. at the first, in the beginning
adjective
  1. the first-born, first one
adjective
  1. first
transitive-verb
  1. start a fire start to cook food
noun
  1. tree stump
noun
  1. spiderlily
noun
  1. back of neck, neck
adjective
  1. stingy
manner
  1. headlong
adjective
  1. angry
adjective
  1. tough, strong
noun
  1. left hand
noun
  1. door, front
adjective
  1. loose, loosely put together
intransitive-verb
  1. jump, hop, skip
  2. get out of a truck, car, boat or plane
noun
  1. edible sea creature with a shell like a porcupine with prickles which lives on the rocks by the sea. (you fry the meat)
adjective
  1. always wanting to be high up - climbing trees
noun
  1. food taboo
noun
  1. greenish black lizard about 12 inches long
  2. some mythological person/animal who split Snapper Island away from the main-land. Story of dakwurrdakwun cooking marra-bujabay in kurrma
noun
  1. female, woman
noun
  1. bad news
noun
  1. mudskipper
noun
  1. high bank
noun
  1. high reaches of the mountains
adjective
  1. steep
noun
  1. pharynx
noun
  1. salmon
adjective
  1. loosely, slack, gently, not strongly
noun
  1. species of poison nut tree, not edible for humans. Gum from this tree is not poisonous, used for making spears.
noun
  1. flat rock
adjective
  1. smooth, level
transitive-verb
  1. take the rough off a piece of wood with a tool or a piece of glass
  2. making a place level
transitive-verb
  1. to remove a hard or tough covering, e.g. a coconut
intransitive-verb
  1. itch
noun
  1. itchy feeling
noun
  1. itchy
adjective
  1. sharp
noun
  1. sea, large body of water
noun
  1. people belonging to the seaside
noun
  1. flood
noun
  1. white of egg
noun
  1. shoulder blade
noun
  1. newly cleared scrub
noun
  1. goose
noun
  1. hillside
adjective
  1. two
adjective
  1. four
noun
  1. grub. Mareeba dialect for mujurr
noun
  1. cork from bottle
noun
  1. a type of tree
noun
  1. they plural
intransitive-verb
  1. stand
  2. to come to a stop
transitive-verb
  1. to stop someone
noun
  1. blue quondong
  2. blue spotted fantail ray
noun
  1. rice
transitive-verb
  1. to glue or stick something, using pitch or glue (yalanji only)
intransitive-verb
  1. to become stuck, to stick to
  2. to keep something that is not your own, but you don't steal it, just find it somewhere
noun
  1. stick, also used for sticky honey
transitive-verb
  1. stick to
transitive-verb
  1. to stick or glue something to something
adjective
  1. cheeky
noun
  1. lower limb, leg
noun
  1. a food made from flour cooked in water, which is thick, not soupy
noun
  1. stone
adjective
  1. bristling, ready to fight
noun
  1. swift (species of bird)
noun
  1. along upper reaches of Daintree River
noun
  1. sound of chewing
adjective
  1. well cooked, done
adjective
  1. nuisance, cheeky, trouble maker
intransitive-verb
  1. wash, bathe, swim
transitive-verb
  1. to give someone a bath
adjective
  1. quiet
noun
  1. hole in the ground
noun
  1. generic word for snake
noun
  1. a type of snake
noun
  1. poisonous snake (found in the Rossville-Shipton's Fault area)
noun
  1. short brown watersnake
noun
  1. fresh water snake
noun
  1. yellow water snake
noun
  1. red bellied black snake
noun
  1. light bellied black snake
noun
  1. black snake (bigger than the red bellied)
noun
  1. species of tree snake
noun
  1. whip snake
noun
  1. brown snake or taipan (no distinction)
noun
  1. rock python
noun
  1. zebra striped water snake
noun
  1. green tree snake
noun
  1. death adder
noun
  1. carpet snake, North Queensland python (no distinction)
noun
  1. species of fish, grunter
noun
  1. species of snake
noun
  1. rainbow serpent (mythological serpent)
noun
  1. species of snake
noun
  1. species of fish, grunter
noun
  1. wash away
  2. drift, as things the drift by the tide
noun
  1. more, farther
adjective
  1. high
  2. full grown or mature
noun
  1. upper reaches of Daintree River Junction to Gold Hill
noun
  1. tree-climbing kangaroo
noun
  1. to lift or carry
noun
  1. thunder, thunderstorm, thunderheads
  2. praying mantis
  3. small species of stingray
adjective
  1. someone who is angry and yelling at people, who loses his temper
noun
  1. above Thompson Creek Camp (place name) (story site)
noun
  1. fig tree and its fruit
noun
  1. species of some shelled sea creature
  2. skin colour, a little lighter than usual but not light enough to be half-case
manner
  1. to be flat on one's stomach, prone
intransitive-verb
  1. to delay, stay away
noun
  1. message stick used to carry bad news, usually a stick about 4 inches long, with notches (If a person receives a sensation on the forehead, it is an indication of bad news)
noun
  1. an item, quartz, marble, bone - which is pulled out of a person's body by the witch doctor when sick
noun
  1. taro (english loan word)
noun
  1. trousers (english loan word)
noun
  1. scrub hen, also used to refer to the eggs and/or nest of scrub hen
noun
  1. argument, complaint
noun
  1. someone who is always arguing or complaining
intransitive-verb
  1. to complain
adjective
  1. generous, liberal
noun
  1. friend, relation
noun
  1. large ant bed
adjective
  1. pleasant, nice to talk to
intransitive-verb
  1. to become stuck, stick to
noun
  1. name for policeman (sergeant) (english loan word)
noun
  1. kangaroo rat
noun
  1. liver
  2. insides, guts
intransitive-verb
  1. to feel sorrow, grief, pity
transitive-verb
  1. realize something bad
intransitive-verb
  1. turn around from stomach to back when lying down
intransitive-verb
  1. repent, to go a different way, morally
adjective
  1. glad
intransitive-verb
  1. become startled
adjective
  1. sweet, as sugarcane
  2. feel really good and satisfied, as after a good meal
intransitive-verb
  1. frightened
noun
  1. dog's urine
noun
  1. stomach
directional
  1. south and inland from the coast, south-west
noun
  1. species of large bat
  2. place name - cave between Kangkaji and Kaway (story site). Also called Kurrbi.
noun
  1. paperbark tree bark torch
noun
  1. species of wild fruit in scrub, a bushy plant, with long leaves, ripe in March. These leaves are also used to line a dirt oven (kurrma)
noun
  1. grandchild (one's son's children)
noun
  1. name of old house across the river from the mill, now burned down
noun
  1. roof of house
  2. the top of anything
  1. place name. First ground upriver from the mouth of the Bloomfield River (south side)
noun
  1. red bream
noun
  1. whip snake
adjective
  1. any food if, when cooked, is not hard but squishy (like sweet potatoes, or pumpkin)
noun
  1. tobacco leaf
transitive-verb
  1. stretch, to straighten
intransitive-verb
  1. to stretch - as on awakening from sleep
noun
  1. grass
noun
  1. beeswax
  2. smell
  3. sweat
noun
  1. bad smell
intransitive-verb
  1. sweat
noun
  1. vareity of edible fig and the tree
noun
  1. walk
  2. walkabout
noun
  1. a slow walk
noun
  1. corkwood
noun
  1. grub found in antbed
noun
  1. near Spit Island, at the confluence of the Bloomfield River and Thompson Creek (place name)
noun
  1. headband made from seashells
noun
  1. boney salmon, tarpon
adjective
  1. an animal that is a little fat
adjective
  1. glossy surface
noun
  1. fire stick
transitive-verb
  1. to make fire with a fire stick
noun
  1. mountain lizard. This lizard taught people how to use the firestick.
noun
  1. grasshopper
noun
  1. foot
intransitive-verb
  1. to go by foot, to walk
noun
  1. chicken hawk, goshawk
noun
  1. water gum tree; this tree is good timber for woomeras (yalanji dialect)
noun
  1. smooth rock
adjective
  1. fast, quick, hurry.
noun
  1. wrist
noun
  1. spear with three prongs
transitive-verb
  1. to bite and leave a puncture mark, as a snake bite or some dog bites.
noun
  1. fish scale
  2. dish
noun
  1. upper reaches of Roaring Meg River (place name)
noun
  1. silverfish
  2. honey ant, the abdomen enlarges after eating
noun
  1. barb of spear
noun
  1. species of tree, also its edible fruit, which is small and elongated and plum-like with a large seed. The tree has bark out of which baskets can be made. It peels off easily then is put into the fire for a minute to soften, then it is bent and the ends tied to form a basket. It is used to cook with - hot stones can also be put in the water in it - and it was used to carry bones of the dead.
noun
  1. poison nut tree. The nut is edible after roasting. The smoke is poisonous when roasting the nut. The bark and sap are poisonous, but water from cooked wattle tree bark will cure the poisoned skin.
noun
  1. Billygoat Creek (place name)
adjective
  1. spotted, as an animal
noun
  1. taipan, brown snake. (These are not distinguished) Young boys were made to eat the eyes of a jinkalmu in order to make them kuliji, fierce, good fighters.
noun
  1. body of a dead person when it is carried in the dubal (bark coffin)
noun
  1. younger sister, relationship term
noun
  1. ground lizard, larger than the blue-tongue lizard
adjective
  1. new
adjective
  1. nightbird
adjective
  1. desire, craving
noun
  1. sky
  2. heaven
noun
  1. fine day, cloudless sky
noun
  1. fine day, cloudless sky
noun
  1. angels, the sky-mob
noun
  1. coconut, the tree and the fruit
noun
  1. upper reaches of the Bloomfield River (place name)
noun
  1. spring
adjective
  1. burnt, as food. Sometimes also the crust of bread.
transitive-verb
  1. to overcook, to burn the food
transitive-verb
  1. to taste, to upset someone, to stir him up
  2. to start a fire
  3. to start a motor
noun
  1. chips, small sticks to start a fire
adjective
  1. big amount, lots
adjective
  1. lonely, uninhabited, sad
adjective
  1. meat with no fat, an animal in poor condition. (This kind of animal will not be eaten)
noun
  1. pubic hair on both man and woman
manner
  1. through, as through a gate.
adjective
  1. the way you feel if someone talks bad about you
noun
  1. rust, rusty
intransitive-verb
  1. complain, to chase, to cause to go away, as when a person or people are angry and make someone go away either by his running away or actually chasing him
noun
  1. small oyster
noun
  1. kingfisher, white tailed
noun
  1. defiance
noun
  1. messenger night bird which carries the message. When you go somewhere, after you get there, you send a message back home by throwing fire.
noun
  1. below Stony Crossing in Daintree River (place name)
noun
  1. along Daintree River (place name)
noun
  1. cuckoo pheasant (also called bulbululul)
noun
  1. somewhere up high between Romeo and Rossville (place name)
transitive-verb
  1. to pinch
adjective
  1. experienced, expert, clever at something
manner
  1. tricking, pretending
noun
  1. ironwood tree. The bark is burned to control thunderstorms, as is kangka, kanunjul and nganjirr
noun
  1. buttocks, bum
intransitive-verb
  1. back up, to sit down
noun
  1. back of ankle, back of heel
  2. sugar
noun
  1. sand
noun
  1. whirlwind
noun
  1. sand whiting
noun
  1. chicken (english loan word)
noun
  1. tree, wood of any size from tree down to splinter
noun
  1. species of bloodwood
noun
  1. species of white gum
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. species of tree with edible cherry-like fruit
noun
  1. Moreton Bay fig
noun
  1. Queensland nut
noun
  1. species of tree with edible fruit
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. ti tree (fruit must be cooked)
noun
  1. candlenut
noun
  1. species of fig (large edible)
noun
  1. species of with edible fruit with long finger-like seeds
noun
  1. species with edible fruit which must be leaved (in water)
noun
  1. species of tree with edible fruit like soursop but smaller
noun
  1. species of plum
noun
  1. lady apple
noun
  1. breadfruit
noun
  1. paperbark
noun
  1. tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. watergum (also called Nyungkul)
noun
  1. species of oak
noun
  1. species which grows along beaches
noun
  1. boxwood
noun
  1. species of hickory
noun
  1. corkwood pine
noun
  1. umbrella palm
noun
  1. species with edible fruit
noun
  1. black palm
noun
  1. baldy gum
noun
  1. pandanus palm
noun
  1. nut tree
noun
  1. blue quondong tree
noun
  1. species of fig
noun
  1. species of fig
noun
  1. corkwood
noun
  1. watergum (yalanji)
noun
  1. species of tree
noun
  1. nut tree, poisonous fruit
noun
  1. coconut
noun
  1. ironwood
noun
  1. species with edible small green apple
noun
  1. species of scrub zemia
noun
  1. wild plum (poisonous without leaching)
noun
  1. wild cherry (edible fruit)
noun
  1. Leichardt tree
noun
  1. species of mangrove
noun
  1. species of mangrove
noun
  1. finger cherry
noun
  1. Malaeuca gum (woolybutt)
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. species of bloodwood
noun
  1. black cherry (edible fruit)
noun
  1. species of white gum
noun
  1. river oak or she oak
noun
  1. species of tree species of bloodwood
noun
  1. silky maple (yellow maple timber)
noun
  1. species of fig (edible)
noun
  1. species of palm
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. milka tree
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. Burdekin plum
noun
  1. species of mangrove
noun
  1. sea pine
noun
  1. fern tree
noun
  1. species of stringy bark
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. zemia nut
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. red cedar tree
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. milbarkal (english name unknown)
noun
  1. sting tree
noun
  1. oilnut tree
noun
  1. pencil cedar
noun
  1. species with poisonous sap
noun
  1. species of mangrove
noun
  1. species of fig
noun
  1. species of tree (with edible fruit)
noun
  1. kaori pine
noun
  1. small tree with thorns on branches
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. species with edible fruit
noun
  1. species of hickory
noun
  1. flame tree
noun
  1. species with edible red seed
noun
  1. grass tree
noun
  1. species of tree (with edible fig)
noun
  1. coolibah tree
noun
  1. species with edible white seed
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. species of tree (english name unknown)
noun
  1. messmate
noun
  1. cottontree
noun
  1. species of stringy bark
noun
  1. scrub tree
noun
  1. white wattle
noun
  1. black wattle (yellow flower)
noun
  1. species of palm
noun
  1. species of fig
noun
  1. species of wattle
noun
  1. bottle brush
noun
  1. dead finish (tree)
noun
  1. bronzewing dove. If the jukujuku sings out alone the people know that a stranger is coming or that someone may have died.
noun
  1. freshwater catfish (yalanji)
noun
  1. Aboriginal camp location along Daintree River
noun
  1. The Daintree people
noun
  1. freshwater minnow
noun
  1. lizard from dreamtime
noun
  1. species of tree and its fruit, a small edible green apple which becomes ripe in the wet season
adjective
  1. slippery
transitive-verb
  1. to slip (in fast speech, this is contracted to julbarrin)
noun
  1. guts, abdominal contents, lining of abdomen
adjective
  1. showoff, skiter, stubborn person, one who insists on doing what he wants
noun
  1. diarrhea
noun
  1. species of scrub zemia. Edible when ground and leaved with water
noun
  1. a grave
noun
  1. a belt of bark and hair wound around during mourning
noun
  1. where Haachs used to live (place name)
noun
  1. massage
noun
  1. sucker fish
noun
  1. grey kangaroo, a darker variety than mayarriji
noun
  1. transitive-verb
noun
  1. tar from a tree used to make spears
noun
  1. kind of oyster, larger than juwarru
transitive-verb
  1. to wash something
intransitive-verb
  1. to wash oneself
noun
  1. moomoo birds, night owl, night hawk
time
  1. presently, later on
time
  1. later on
noun
  1. little wallaby
noun
  1. mushroom
adjective
  1. greedy
noun
  1. The grass seeds that get stuck in clothes, which come during the wet season
noun
  1. small lizard. Common in leaves and grass before and durin wet season, with reddish markings on head
noun
  1. wild plum which is poisonous and must be leached before eating
noun
  1. pumice stone, carborundum stone
noun
  1. species of tree, bid round leaves, smooth bark
noun
  1. marsupial native cat
noun
  1. wild cherry tree and its fruit
noun
  1. billycan
transitive-verb
  1. to roll
noun
  1. end, tip
noun
  1. white ant eggs
noun
  1. the big hill at the east side of the mouth of the Bloomfield River. Collins Hill (place name)
noun
  1. species of wild fruit, ripe in March - May. During the junjun season, the scrub turkey, which normally lives in the high country, will come down to feed on them
noun
  1. something, usually of no value
noun
  1. things
adjective
  1. truthful, straight
noun
  1. back of heel and ankle
adjective
  1. correct, straight, right
noun
  1. strength
noun
  1. strong
modifier
  1. earnestly, strongly
intransitive-verb
  1. bristling, ready to fight
  2. stand strongly, overcome
transitive-verb
  1. to fasten, join
intransitive-verb
  1. to be joined together
adjective
  1. alive
noun
  1. a woman's dance
noun
  1. a dancing woman
transitive-verb
  1. eject
noun
  1. seashore plover
adjective
  1. rusty
adjective
  1. reddish color
noun
  1. shoots of plants
noun
  1. a lie, an untruth
transitive-verb
  1. to trick someone by lying by word or action
intransitive-verb
  1. jurrilmal
noun
  1. satin bower bird
transitive-verb
  1. turn something, move something
noun
  1. change direction, turn oneself
  2. repent
transitive-verb
  1. to push down, upset
intransitive-verb
  1. to trip, as to trip over a stone
noun
  1. a weapon, instrument
noun
  1. corner, elbow
noun
  1. right hand
adjective
  1. expert, good shooter or hunter
directional
  1. moving along
transitive-verb
  1. to discontinue following something
transitive-verb
  1. to lead. Can also be used in the sense of leading astray
intransitive-verb
  1. walk single file
transitive-verb
  1. catch up with. reach.
noun
  1. the next one behind
intransitive-verb
  1. keep up (with him), stuck (with him) in the sense of moving along.
transitive-verb
  1. to go after something to catch it
noun
  1. coconut grove where Biddle's Mission used to be (across from mill)
noun
  1. area across the river from Middle Camp (place name)
manner
  1. repeatedly
noun
  1. spoon made in old time
manner
  1. repeatedly
time
  1. too long a time
noun
  1. yam or digging stick
adjective
  1. lethargic, as from sickness
noun
  1. mud oyster. It is like a barnacle, only it clings to rock and mangroves. Smaller and flatter that julul.
noun
  1. great grandfather
  2. nephew, niece. If you are a man, your sister's children are your wuway. if you are a woman, your brother's children are you juway
noun
  1. guts, abdominal contents (nyungkul)
conujunction
  1. however, but.
noun
  1. rain
noun
  1. fresh water lily
  2. flora and fauna belonging to the rain forest area
noun
  1. Bailey's Creek. Also kulngku.
noun
  1. Leichardt tree and its fruit. The fruit is edible, it is small and round with small seeds. If you have a sore joint, boil the bark in water, rub the cooled water on the sore joint.
noun
  1. paper, book
noun
  1. armpit
noun
  1. small ant bed
noun
  1. Tributary Creek flowing into Thompson Creek
adjective
  1. rotten, bad or rotten smell.
noun
  1. King's Plains swamp (place name)
noun
  1. rock python
noun
  1. striped water snake, known as the zebra snake
intransitive-verb
  1. broken
  2. without money
noun
  1. shell of turtle
noun
  1. black cockatoo (totem of the Dabu moiety) (Yalanji)
noun
  1. plains wallaby
transitive-verb
  1. come
noun
  1. sharp sound or crashing sound, as of an axe cutting wood, or a tree falling
noun
  1. clay pipe
noun
  1. snail, the small one around here at night
manner
  1. repeatedly
transitive-verb
  1. to tie
adjective
  1. two things in one, as twins joined together, as in the darka nut or kajamarkay which has two nuts in one shell
noun
  1. clam shell, the giant clam
noun
  1. food which is ground up to make flour, i.e.e marra. Rolled in junjun leaves and left in water for several weeks, then ground and roasted
noun
  1. passionfruit (english loan word)
noun
  1. species of mangrove. A lo9ng thin fruit which must be soaked in water to make it edible.
adjective
  1. sore, achey
  2. bad tasting food, as sour milk or too strong curry
  3. salt water, ocean water
noun
  1. species of mangrove with a short thin fruit which becomes edible by leaching out the poison
noun
  1. the green upper part of the black palm tree from which the dilly bag is made
noun
  1. large number
manner
  1. well, good at something
conjunction
  1. if/when
noun
  1. lawyer cane top
transitive-verb
  1. try something to see if it will be okay
transitive-verb
  1. practise
adjective
  1. weak
intransitive-verb
  1. jump over
noun
  1. scrub goanna
direction
  1. far away, very long ways away
noun
  1. vine
noun
  1. mass of vines
noun
  1. for the lower end of Kangkaji Harry Dick's place (place name)
noun
  1. the mixture made from green ant larvae/pupae and eggs eaten for chest sickness and the common cold.
adjective
  1. tall
noun
  1. tall man
noun
  1. tea leaves
noun
  1. finger cherry
noun
  1. dead body
adjective
  1. together because of mutual interest
transitive-verb
  1. hug, embrace
noun
  1. cypress pine pitch - poisonous
adjective
  1. long
noun
  1. black crow
noun
  1. species of bee
noun
  1. discharge from the eye
noun
  1. kestral hawk, totem of dabu moiety. He taught the people to do the corroboreee.
noun
  1. vine with edible cherry
noun
  1. near Cape Tribulation (place name) (story site, big footprint)
noun
  1. outrigger canoe
transitive-verb
  1. to vomit
noun
  1. fishing spear, also generic term for spear
noun
  1. caves near Black mountains, also Black Mountains
noun
  1. a locust in the mountains which tells when to collect turkey eggs
  2. the time to collect the eggs (event)
noun
  1. green tree snake
transitive-verb
  1. to tighten, to jam something in
intransitive-verb
  1. stuck, welded or glued together. Also the name for sticky plaster.
  2. hang on
noun
  1. species of lizard 8-10 feet long which plays a part in one of the legends
adjective
  1. undeveloped, green, unripe
adjective
  1. salty water, as in the sea or in a tidal river
noun
  1. woolly butt, Malaleuca gum
noun
  1. species of wild yam
noun
  1. night owl
noun
  1. upper reaches of Daintree River
noun
  1. black diver bird
noun
  1. mothers brother (relationship term)
  2. great grandson (relationship term)
noun
  1. a person who commits adultery
  2. the trouble that comes to a village or home because of a person, man or woman, who is always committing adultery and so disrupting normal home life
noun
  1. a person who is continually making trouble because of his or licentiousness
noun
  1. small mullet
noun
  1. upper reaches of Thompson Creek (place name)
noun
  1. garfish
noun
  1. left-handed person
noun
  1. vomit
noun
  1. yellow March fly
noun
  1. old woman. Now sometimes called wulbuman, which is an English loan word
noun
  1. low level, within reach
noun
  1. cross-cousin (relationship term) (Children of my mother's brother or of my father's sister)
noun
  1. white clay
  2. wet season
noun
  1. the liquid which drops from a corpse
noun
  1. flying fox
  2. clothing
noun
  1. uncountable numbers
noun
  1. grandfather (relationship term) (father's father)
  2. grandmother (relationship term) (mother's mother)
noun
  1. grandchild - daughter's child
noun
  1. strong drink, usually beer
noun
  1. inside
intransitive-verb
  1. angry
noun
  1. some of, the rest of
manner
  1. mistakenly
transitive-verb
  1. to block, put in the way of
noun
  1. maggot
noun
  1. belch, burp
transitive-verb
  1. to take someone's place/job
transitive-verb
  1. chase
noun
  1. wild grape, used for stomach disorders. Also used for the control of thunder storms, as is nganjirr and jujabala and kanunjul.
noun
  1. First bay south of Bloomfield River along coast
noun
  1. one's own child; son, daughter
noun
  1. low gap in mountain, mountain pass
noun
  1. cheek
noun
  1. mate, one who is with you so you will not be alone
noun
  1. hole
noun
  1. sound of a clap
manner
  1. right off, right through
noun
  1. resin of grass tree, used to make pitch to seal spear bindings. Also used in the control of thunder storms, as is nganjirr and jujabala and kangka. Kanunjul is also used to smoke the inside of a house after the owner dies.
noun
  1. fin
noun
  1. freshwater catfish (nyungkul) (yalanji - julaji) Sometimes called walarrji, "with whiskers"
noun
  1. curse song. It is sung by one person against another who has seriously wronged him, i.e. stolen his wife. These songs are greatly feared, and act as a deterrent against wrongdoing.
noun
  1. headwaters of Granite Creek, the Bloomfield side of Romeo (place name)
intransitive-verb
  1. sneak around to see, reconnoiter
intransitive-verb
  1. stalk
adjective
  1. alongside
noun
  1. grass
  2. blanket to lie on, not to put over you
  3. also used as year, i.e. kararr jambul "two years"
negative
  1. negative, no
  2. negative
  3. conjunction meaning but or however
  4. in discourse, on the paragraph level used to indicate a change of focus
negative
  1. not now
negative
  1. not yet
negative
  1. definitely not
negative
  1. not enough, not quite
negative
  1. none
noun
  1. rope, cord, string
noun
  1. king parrot
noun
  1. species of tree with leaves which are white underneath and when crushed are good for boils
noun
  1. reef or coral
noun
  1. edible snail
transitive-verb
  1. to catch, grab, touch, arrest
noun
  1. coral crushed for lime
adjective
  1. small
noun
  1. small one, child, young one
noun
  1. children
noun
  1. red jumper ant. Some people have gotten sick and comited after being bitten by them.
noun
  1. green frog
noun
  1. blue mountain parakeet
noun
  1. a hole in something, as in a board or a dress, or a crack in a house
noun
  1. ghost crab, fiddler crab
noun
  1. drool
noun
  1. Roaring Meg Falls area (story site)
noun
  1. black spotted dart
noun
  1. green scum
  2. moss
noun
  1. near Watermelon Creek (place name)
noun
  1. crested pigeon
noun
  1. little ants, white or black
noun
  1. a shout, cooee, not far away
intransitive-verb
  1. howl
noun
  1. honey bread of bees
noun
  1. species of bloodwood tree
noun
  1. second bay south of the Bloomfield River on the coast
exclamation
  1. expression of delight on the arrival of a visitor (spoken with rising intonation on the second syllable)
noun
  1. yam
noun
  1. species of tree and its fruit, a small edible black cherry, very sweet. Ripe in wet season.
noun
  1. dog
noun
  1. dogs
adjective
  1. undeveloped, green, unripe
  2. raw
noun
  1. felt hat (literally the back of a dog)
transitive-verb
  1. to hook with a hook spear
  2. to charm, fascinate
intransitive-verb
  1. getting hooked
  2. charm (idioom)
noun
  1. white gum
noun
  1. children (contraction of karrkay-karrkay)
transitive-verb
  1. sweep, remove, wipe
  2. clean an animal - to remove the insides
intransitive-verb
  1. runny tummy, diarrhea
noun
  1. moon
  2. Roaring Meg Falls (site of moon story)
noun
  1. numb feeling
  2. discoloured skin where skin is a little lighter in colour in places, usually from untreated ringworm
transitive-verb
  1. tickle
noun
  1. mudcrab
noun
  1. saltwater catfish
noun
  1. mirror (english loan word from glass)
transitive-verb
  1. to lose, spill, waste
noun
  1. windbreak
adjective
  1. alert, on guard (for yourself), keep an eye on someone, watch out
noun
  1. tiger shark
adjective
  1. soft
  2. weak, sick
adjective
  1. easy crossing of water, water isn't rushing as during a floor
noun
  1. stick
transitive-verb
  1. motion to get attention
noun
  1. caterpillar
intransitive-verb
  1. kind of a shocked feeling, get goose pimples, hair stands up
  1. to sneeer at, mock, make someone feel ashamed
noun
  1. river oak, she oak. Type of pine along beach.
adjective
  1. amusing, cute, said of a baby when admiring him
intranstive-verb
  1. play (yalanji )
noun
  1. female, used only for baby girls
noun
  1. black ant
adjective
  1. slow, quiet
manner
  1. secretly
noun
  1. dugong
transitive-verb
  1. forbid, block
intransitive-verb
  1. forbidden
intransitive-verb
  1. work
noun
  1. ringworm
noun
  1. brains
  2. grease, marrow, drippings from animal fat
adjective
  1. dull, stupid, insane, silly
noun
  1. cold
adjective
  1. cold
noun
  1. name for wife
noun
  1. married man
noun
  1. big black freshwater eelfish
noun
  1. sound of whip
noun
  1. below the Roaring Meg Falls (place name)
noun
  1. below the Roaring Meg Falls (place name)
noun
  1. garfish, barracuda
noun
  1. black and red seeds which are threaded to make a wankarr (necklace)
noun
  1. smoke
noun
  1. tadpole
noun
  1. crown of head
question
  1. question word (nyungkal) (yalanji - yala)
direction
  1. behind, last
transitive-verb
  1. drag
noun
  1. barramundi (yalanji) (nyungkul - murrabal)
noun
  1. species of small stingless bee, and its honey. The nests are found in the ground.
adjective
  1. slow (nyungkul only)
noun
  1. species of bloodwood tree
transitive-verb
  1. keep, hold, wait for.
transitive-verb
  1. guard something
noun
  1. daughter-in-law
noun
  1. brown and green pigeon
noun
  1. news
  2. the talk or language of a place
noun
  1. chatterbox, someone who is continually talking
noun
  1. said of a child who has just learned to talk. Literally "has talk now" "news mouth"
intransitive-verb
  1. to change your mind
noun
  1. straight talk
noun
  1. dialect of the people of the ground around Maytown
noun
  1. used by speakers to refer to a dialect not their own
noun
  1. dialect of the coastal people, which includes the Bloomfield area
noun
  1. the talk of the people originally around Rossville and Shipton's Flats.
noun
  1. English
noun
  1. literally "talk of this place", now used to refer to the dialect and people of the China Camp-Daintree area. (also the generic name for all the dialects and people from Cooktown to Mossman)
noun
  1. the big spear used for spearing turtle, used as a harpoon
noun
  1. rat
noun
  1. a mother who loses a child through death
noun
  1. one who commits adultery
noun
  1. brolga
transitive-verb
  1. pull, lift
transitive-verb
  1. carry
transitive-verb
  1. to slap someone's cheek
noun
  1. axe, originally a stone axe
noun
  1. white beech, silky maple, yellow maple timbers
noun
  1. the resin gum of the cypress pine which is poisonous. It was used on spears in the old days, the effect lasts about two hours.
adjective
  1. ripe
noun
  1. anger
  2. poison
  3. trouble
noun
  1. savage, always fighting
noun
  1. a person who is always fighting, always angry
transitive-verb
  1. tease, mock, make angry
noun
  1. jellyfish
noun
  1. sound made from drumming water. (This is done by percussion, the half-closed hand striking water.)
noun
  1. pebbles, small stones
  2. coins, money. This is going out of use.
adjective
  1. short
noun
  1. Cape Tribilation (place name)
noun
  1. gecko, small house lizard
noun
  1. Bailey's Creek. Also Kaba-kada
adjective
  1. heavy
  2. pregnant
noun
  1. bandicoot
noun
  1. the coconut grove near the mouth of the Creek at Ngamujin Beach (place name)
adjective
  1. short broken off pipe
noun
  1. dove, small grey
adjective
  1. selfish
adjective
  1. three
noun
  1. handsaw
noun
  1. near China Camp (story of Amazon women)
noun
  1. trade wind, fair wind
adjective
  1. well after being sick
noun
  1. urine
noun
  1. species of fig tree with edible fruit. The fruit looks like an eyeball, it is ripe in August - October.
noun
  1. mosquito
noun
  1. species of grass
noun
  1. black cockatoo (nyungkul) (yalanji - kadanji)
noun
  1. The autumn time of the year when so many flowers are in bloom.
noun
  1. fluorescence under water (salt water), as behind a boat in the water at night
adjective
  1. to be joinded
transitive-verb
  1. to join something to something, i.e. to tie something to something else.
noun
  1. Shipton's Flat (place name)
time
  1. middle of the night
intransitive-verb
  1. finish
transitive-verb
  1. to finish something
noun
  1. a big day, celebration, as a dance, race meeting or corraborree
noun
  1. crescent perch
noun
  1. death adder
direction
  1. north along the coastl also used to refer to Cooktown
noun
  1. brown tree snake
adjective
  1. pop-eyed, eyes open wide, eyes bulging out.
transitive-verb
  1. to hit
  2. to kill
intransitive-verb
  1. to fight with fists or sticks, hitting each other
noun
  1. pimples
transitive-verb
  1. to call someone
  2. to invite
noun
  1. species of palm tree. The bark can be used to make containers for cooking. The inside of the upper trunk of small ones is edible.
noun
  1. sneeze
intransitive-verb
  1. to sneeze
noun
  1. fire
adjective
  1. cleansed from a dead person's spirit. To make a person's things unusable again after death, they must be warmed or smoked - passed through smoke or waving smoking bark all around and inside it
adjective
  1. lame, cripple
  2. mentally ill
noun
  1. shield
manner
  1. might be, maybe
noun
  1. periwinkle, flat shellfish with a smooth shell
noun
  1. mountain and river flowing from mountain. This mountain is where the wild dogs stay. (wild dog legend, Shiption's Flat-Jubilee area)
transitive-verb
  1. stare
adjective
  1. fat in food or fatty meat
noun
  1. a sharp corner in the upper reaches of Daintree River (place name)
noun
  1. turtle spear point (yalanji) (nyungkul - biyul)
noun
  1. underwater
noun
  1. species of tree and its fruit - wild peasun. The bark from this tree was used to make rope. Two long strands were twisted together and used for turtle rope. It was very strong.
noun
  1. larva of case moth, edible. Found in green wood.
noun
  1. milk tree
noun
  1. magpie
noun
  1. small patch of scrub
noun
  1. butcherbird, stockwhip bird
noun
  1. a woman who has very recently given birth to a baby
noun
  1. slippery lizard
  2. the mythological person who was the husband of ngalba-bulal, the two sisters of Mt. Peter Botte. He was the husband of babarr, the older sister, but wanted the younger one.
noun
  1. sack, bag
intransitive-verb
  1. sink in mud or water
noun
  1. a spear point made from wattle and used for turtle spearing. it was put in the fire until it was hard enough to pierce through a turtle shell.
noun
  1. kind of grub
noun
  1. seagull
noun
  1. cassowary
noun
  1. coconut grove across the river from the mill
noun
  1. plain turkey (native companion)
noun
  1. favorite
noun
  1. a person having no friends, poor, no one to help
noun
  1. cave between Kaway and Kangkaji (story site)
noun
  1. top of head
noun
  1. magpie
noun
  1. octopus
noun
  1. storm bird
  2. giant mythical bird
  3. very tall person
noun
  1. mackeral sky
noun
  1. carpet snake, python
noun
  1. shortcut
intransitive-verb
  1. go by a shortcut
intransitive-verb
  1. a fight between two men over a woman
intransitive-verb
  1. to look back, as on the trail
noun
  1. earth oven
noun
  1. larvae of green ants
noun
  1. species of cicada or locusts
noun
  1. part of something, a part
noun
  1. species of freshwater fish
noun
  1. morning star
transitive-verb
  1. complain
intransitive-verb
  1. argue, tongue fight
noun
  1. sentry bird which warns of crocodiles along the banks of the river. Totem of both the dabu and walarr
adjective
  1. crooked, wrong
noun
  1. cicatrice, tribal marks
  2. wrinkles, as on forehead or on a newborn baby's side
noun
  1. a kind of tree
noun
  1. Burdekin plum
noun
  1. woman's affection/love/lust to a man
  2. grub found in dry grass tree
noun
  1. a woman who is always falling in love
noun
  1. a woman who is in love with someone
noun
  1. species of mangrove with a long round seed
noun
  1. species of mangrove with a long round seed
noun
  1. bronze wing kookaburra
direction
  1. north and inland from the coast, north-west
noun
  1. whistle
intransitive-verb
  1. to whistle
noun
  1. ghost/spirit
noun
  1. posterior (not a rude term)
noun
  1. fun
transitive-verb
  1. make fun of, tease in fun, make a joke
noun
  1. funny person, thing, or happening, joker
noun
  1. small conical shellfish, used for bait
noun
  1. war spear with quartz head
noun
  1. nasal mucus
noun
  1. bush curlew
noun
  1. fish
noun
  1. angelfish
noun
  1. spotted eagle ray
noun
  1. queenfish
noun
  1. black bream
noun
  1. jungle perch
noun
  1. flat tailed ray
noun
  1. black tip ray
noun
  1. black tip shark
noun
  1. giant herring
noun
  1. freshwater sardine
noun
  1. archerfish (nyungkul)
noun
  1. flathead
noun
  1. kingfish
noun
  1. yellow freshwater eel
noun
  1. trevally
noun
  1. species of fresh water perch
noun
  1. salmon
noun
  1. blue spotted fantail ray
noun
  1. grunter
noun
  1. red bream
noun
  1. boney salmon, ox eye herring
noun
  1. sand whiting
noun
  1. fresh water catfish (yalanji)
noun
  1. fresh water minnow
noun
  1. sucker fish
noun
  1. small mullet
noun
  1. fresh water catfish (nyungkul)
noun
  1. black spotted dart
noun
  1. salt water catfish
noun
  1. salt water catfish
noun
  1. tiger shark
noun
  1. big black fresh water eel
noun
  1. barracuda
noun
  1. barramundi
noun
  1. crescent perch
noun
  1. fresh water cod
noun
  1. species of garfish
noun
  1. small fresh water eel
noun
  1. knight fish
noun
  1. blue tailed mullet
noun
  1. stonefish
noun
  1. archerfish (yalanji)
noun
  1. mullet
noun
  1. shovelnose ray
noun
  1. moray eel
noun
  1. fresh water catfish
noun
  1. small spotted sting ray
noun
  1. diamond fish or devil ray
noun
  1. rock cod
noun
  1. toad fish
noun
  1. species of fresh water eel
noun
  1. shark
noun
  1. whale
noun
  1. manta ray (yalanji)
noun
  1. stingray
noun
  1. manta ray (nyungkul)
noun
  1. sawfish
noun
  1. the Aboriginal camp at Thompson Creek. (english loan word, from landing)
exclamation
  1. shows mild surprise, something like English 'oh'
noun
  1. swallow
noun
  1. war (aboriginals fighting with spears)
noun
  1. the turn off to Main Camp above the Zig-zag
noun
  1. swamp
noun
  1. scrub, jungle, rain forest
noun
  1. sea pine
noun
  1. boss (english loan word, from master)
intransitive-verb
  1. idiom for bossy
transitive-verb
  1. to chew
noun
  1. lazy, no good for hunting or working, used to refer to both dogs and people
noun
  1. matches (english loan word)
adjective
  1. oily or greasy
noun
  1. onion plant, edible herb
noun
  1. muscles of calf on leg
noun
  1. fish net
noun
  1. streaky yellow ochre
noun
  1. yellow ochre
noun
  1. tar, or something black as tar or bitumen
directional
  1. towards
transitive-verb
  1. change directions so you don't meet someone
intransitive-verb
  1. wait to be met
transitive-verb
  1. meet, as on the trail
intransitive-verb
  1. meet, as on the trail
intransitive-verb
  1. go to meet someone
transitive-verb
  1. follow to meet someone
transitive-verb
  1. send to meet someone
adjunction
  1. expert, good at
noun
  1. good carpenter
noun
  1. good singer
noun
  1. good diver
noun
  1. good fisherman
noun
  1. good driver
noun
  1. good hunter
noun
  1. good at it, (anything), clever
noun
  1. good rider
noun
  1. right side
noun
  1. the point between Kangkiji and Kaway. Jibul (bat) story is about this cave.
adjective
  1. guilty
adjective
  1. guilty
intransitive-verb
  1. admit, confess, tell the truth
noun
  1. spider and spider web
  2. life force. That which belongs to the body which is burned at a dead person's burning ceremony
noun
  1. creepy feeling
intransitive-verb
  1. gooseflesh
noun
  1. species of fern
noun
  1. hairy or lumpy surface, pimples
noun
  1. leg between knee and thigh
noun
  1. species of small bat
noun
  1. a bad spirit, which goes through walls and comes around when a person has been killed by a dambunji
noun
  1. corroboree when someone dies
noun
  1. headband
noun
  1. fern tree
noun
  1. mother (english loan word)
noun
  1. two, joined together but not a pair. This is not used anymore except by old people.
intransitive-verb
  1. married
transitive-verb
  1. force
  2. give over to, turn over to
  3. report something bad, to tell on, to gossip about
  4. allow
transitive-verb
  1. the command form of the verb "get"
noun
  1. barb of a spear
noun
  1. if you are a woman, younger brother's children. If you are a man, younger sister's children (relationship term)
noun
  1. moiety or subsection of the tribe
noun
  1. honeycomb. When your husband or child dies you put this into your hair
noun
  1. bait (any kind)
transitive-verb
  1. get
noun
  1. mountain
noun
  1. dandruff
noun
  1. Cedar Bay (place name)
noun
  1. mangrove (english loan word)
manner
  1. throat and front of neck
transitive-verb
  1. watch or guard
transitive-verb
  1. deceive
adjective
  1. squeamish, nauseated
transitive-verb
  1. visit
noun
  1. only, just
noun
  1. truth
transitive-verb
  1. believe
noun
  1. person's spirit
adjective
  1. kind, merciful
noun
  1. wife
noun
  1. couple, husband and wife
noun
  1. where Main Roads camp was, near the summit of the Bloomfield-Helenvale Road (place name)
noun
  1. hand
adjective
  1. one who takes things and doesn't put them back
transitive-verb
  1. to intend to steal something, but someone came so he had to leave it behind and couldn't take it
transitive-verb
  1. help. From English 'give a hand'
intransitive-verb
  1. have a go (idiom)
adjective
  1. clever with the bands, steal something sneak something
adjective
  1. clumsy
intransitive-verb
  1. rest, stop working
adjective
  1. thief
adjective
  1. always busy, always working
intransitive-verb
  1. crawl
intransitive-verb
  1. swim
noun
  1. spider shell
noun
  1. young girl, unmarried girl
noun
  1. young girls
noun
  1. near Watermelon Creek (place name)
noun
  1. on Main Camp trail (place name) (story site)
noun
  1. cloth. Originally a sail made of plaited palm leaves.
noun
  1. stringy bark tree
noun
  1. Rattlesnake point and the ground around there, also the taboo place up Fritz Creek (story site)
adjective
  1. Aboriginal. English loan word (from English outback slang) (In modern terms some people may also know as indiginous or first nations) Also could be spelt murray, murry, murri. (Also relevant to far north Queensland, not just the Bloomfield area)
noun
  1. Aboriginal doctor
noun
  1. species of oyster
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. zemia tree and the zemia nut which is roasted, ground and leaced to make flour
  2. wing
intransitive-verb
  1. to fly
intransitive-verb
  1. to be in a real bad temper, temper tantrum, picking up things and throwing them
  2. to go somewhere (just children, not adults) thoughtlessly, not thinking of the danger
noun
  1. species of ti tree
noun
  1. dugout canoe made of red cedar wood
adjective
  1. dry
noun
  1. Islander
noun
  1. sour, bitter taste
time
  1. prolonged, long time
intransitive-verb
  1. settled
noun
  1. old people
noun
  1. species of mangrove, with apple-like seed only much bigger. The wood is hard and is good for making oars.
noun
  1. calm sea
  2. salt pan, where salt water has been
noun
  1. edible oyster
noun
  1. gun
noun
  1. nickname for a stockman
noun
  1. edible wild cherry which has two or three seeds in each fruit. It grows on lows by the beach and has a shiny leaf. (english - native cherry)
noun
  1. species of oyster
manner
  1. with nothing, without any, empty
adjective
  1. bright red colour
noun
  1. species of bee
noun
  1. the vine of the lawyer cane. Also user to refer to braces.
noun
  1. a coarse grass used in the making of dilly bags
noun
  1. small variety of freshwater eel. Only old people were allowed to eat it.
noun
  1. Gold Hill (place name)
noun
  1. a species of clinging plant or vine
noun
  1. bottle
noun
  1. sub-species of grey kangaroo, lighter in colour than the "julmbanu"
noun
  1. vegetable food or fruit
  2. generic term for food, whether vegetable or protein
noun
  1. knight fish, sometimes known as the port and light fish
noun
  1. wart
noun
  1. white woman. English loan from "Missus"
noun
  1. where the bridge is over Wallabay Creek (place name)
noun
  1. tear
noun
  1. pencil cedar. The skin of the seed is edible.
noun
  1. generic term for shell
  2. nautilus shell
  3. button
noun
  1. species of tree
noun
  1. woomera
  2. used in mixed company when referring to a man's penis
noun
  1. along upper reaches of Daintree, between bubu Jiwulkal and Jangkarra
transitive-verb
  1. to show or tell something
  2. introduce
noun
  1. stinging tree
  2. jellyfish (because they also burn)
noun
  1. ear. Many idioms are compounded with "milka" as the base
transitive-verb
  1. remind, tempt, warn
associative
  1. remember
transitive-verb
  1. think about
transitive-verb
  1. think about
adjective
  1. homesick, lonely, sad, worried
transitive-verb
  1. remember, recollect
transitive-verb
  1. hear
adjective
  1. tired of so much noise
transitive-verb
  1. think about
intransitive-verb
  1. remember
transitive-verb
  1. remind
intransitive-verb
  1. sin, yield to temptation
adjective
  1. deaf
  2. stubborn
intransitive-verb
  1. can't sleep because of something on the mind
intransitive-verb
  1. listen
  2. obey
noun
  1. earache
noun
  1. sore ear
adjective
  1. can't hear, deaf
transitive-verb
  1. contented
adjective
  1. contented, peaceful
adjective
    transitive-verb
    1. sentence, as in court
    2. remind
    intransitive-verb
      transitive-verb
      1. remember
      transitive-verb
      1. remind, also used for explain
      intransitive-verb
        intransitive-verb
        1. forget
        2. forgive
        noun
        1. small mullet
        noun
        1. soup or stew
        noun
        1. azure kingfisher
        noun
        1. edible lawyer cane
        adjective
        1. tame, quiet, brace, not afraid of or shy of, confident.
        noun
        1. dog flea
        intransitive-verb
        1. squat, crouch. People fighting squat down so you cannot hit them with your spear, or when camping out, crouch down all night because of the rain (can't lie down because it is too wet)
        noun
        1. the hook of the woomera that enters the end of the spear
        noun
        1. oil nut tree. The fruit is like a small green apple, which when roasted in the fire, turns black. The black is rubbed on the hand and then on the hair to beautify it.
        adjective
        1. correct, as a correct marriage according to tribal laws
        adjective
        1. beautiful, nice, pretty
        transitive-verb
        1. to keep/save food for someone
        noun
          transitive-verb
          1. tidy up, make neat, straighten out.
          noun
          1. meat, eggs (protein food)
          2. generic term for animal
          noun
          1. scum on water
          2. whale oil
          noun
          1. a wooden instrument to help throw spears more powerfully. This was used as an instrument of defence. After being found guilty, a man used to be given a woomera with which to ward off the spears thrown by a group of men. The aim was not to kill except for a capital offence. also rifle
          noun
          1. pencil cedar. The fruit is the shape of a date and very sweet.
          noun
          1. methylated spirits
          noun
          1. rib
          noun
          1. cockatoo crest
          2. the name of a hat made from cockatoo feathers. To make the hat, the feathers of the cockatoo are mixed with bees wax and the hat is used in ceremonies.
          noun
          1. kidney bird, totem of the dabu moiety
          noun
          1. club, nullanulla
          noun
          1. eye
          2. species of tree, which has poisonous sap used to blind fish. You wrap orange seed in grass to keep the sap from touching your skin and the eyes of people, then smash under water.
          adjective
          1. blind
          adjective
          1. one who stares, looks hard, concentrates
          intransitive-verb
          1. giddy, dizzy
          adjective
          1. person who pretends he is not observing, but really does
          intransitive-verb
          1. look, watch
          intransitive-verb
          1. literate
          adjective
          1. blind
          adjective
          1. blind
          intransitive-verb
          1. pray (literally to close your eyes)
          adjective
          1. crosseye
          noun
          1. species of mangrove. It has a poisonous sap which makes people blind.
          noun
          1. smouldering log
          noun
          1. motor car (english loan word)
          noun
          1. lower back
          time
          1. the time just before daylight, pre-dawn
          noun
          1. wound not yet healed
          2. Watermelon Creek (place name)
          adjective
          1. rotten, easily broken, decayed wood or cloth
          transitive-verb
          1. collect, gather
          noun
          1. species of fig tree and its fruit, which is edible, and is like a very small apple - ripe in August to October. It is red when ripe, grows out of the trunk of the tree.
          noun
          1. archer fish (yalanji) (nyungkul - dalku)
          2. spotted Jewfish, fresh and saltwater, in King's Plains rivers
          noun
          1. name given to a person who has spear marks on him
          noun
          1. witchetty grub found in rotting wood
          noun
          1. relationship term, mother's older sister, father's older brother
          noun
          1. mussel. Found in fresh and brackish water. There are many up the Daintree near Bairds, some up Granite Creek. Has to be cleaned from the black stuff that tastes like tobacco. First roast it, then clean the "ear" out, then boil it or else eat it right away without boiling
          noun
          1. back
          2. small hawk
          noun
          1. hunchback, bent back
          manner
          1. go backwards
          intransitive-verb
          1. lean oneself back
          intransitive-verb
          1. bend, stoop
          noun
          1. species of tree and its edible fruit - becomes ripe in August-September.
          noun
          1. old
          adjective
          1. brackish, just when tide comes up into river
          noun
          1. blood
          intransitive-verb
          1. bleeding
          noun
          1. menstruation
          adjective
          1. red colour (yalanji) (nyungkul - ngala ngala)
          noun
          1. star (yalanji) (nyungkul - dawar)
          noun
          1. the other side of the Annan River bridge toward Cooktown, where the old bridge is underneath, cement on top
          intransitive-verb
          1. ambitious
          noun
          1. totem. This word spoken with a rising intonation is an enquiry into a person's secret life.
          2. state of mind to fight for no reason. The father of an unborn child becomes angry at a mate and he will hit the mate at slightest pretense. This is then a sign that his wife is pregnant. Can also be anyone who fights for no reason. This is also a sign someone is pregnant
          3. the spirit being who keeps a snake from biting a pregnant woman
          noun
          1. fetish
          2. an article with supernatural powers
          intransitive-verb
          1. content, happy, good feeling inside
          noun
          1. hornet
          noun
          1. wave
          noun
          1. along Daintree River
          noun
          1. dove
          2. wood used in a sacred corroboree
          noun
          1. with magic
          adjective
          1. folded, closed
          intransitive-verb
          1. clenched fist, closed fingers
          transitive-verb
          1. to throw a spear with a woomera
          transitive-verb
          1. to insert, to place inside something, as to insert a part in an engine
          adjective
          1. proper, correct, careful, alert
          adjective
          1. quiet, brave, not afraid, confident (used to describe someone who asks for things, not being shy)
          2. tame, as a tame pig
          noun
          1. Kaori pine tree
          noun
          1. hair on man or animal
          noun
          1. Torres Strait Islander.
          adjective
          1. hairy, having a lot of hair
          noun
          1. little tree with thorns on branches
          transitive
          1. spear to kill
          noun
          1. big clam shell
          noun
          1. forehead (yalanji) (nyungkul - yiman)
          adjective
          1. stubborn
          noun
          1. ground near fork of Grasstree Creek (Shipton's Flat area) (place name)
          noun
          1. green ant
          noun
          1. scorpion
          noun
          1. scorpion
          noun
          1. ground pigeon
          noun
          1. dove
          noun
          1. snake scale
          noun
          1. sandfly
          noun
          1. sandfly
          noun
          1. species of tree. When this is in bloom it is time for minya jalan.
          adjective
          1. close fitting, tightly built, patched up
          noun
          1. red ochre
          noun
          1. small paper wasp, yellow in colour with a bad sting. Its nest hangs in trees.
          transitive-verb
          1. twist, stir
          transitive-verb
          1. to turn around, to go around in circles (as when lost)
          noun
          1. barramundi (yalanji) (nyungkul kudi)
          noun
          1. stone fish
          noun
          1. tree kangaroo (yalanji) (nyungkul - jarrabina)
          noun
          1. dingo
          noun
          1. fighting spear (shovelhead), made from black palm
          noun
          1. scabies
          2. species of lizard
          noun
          1. scar, scab, initiation marks. Not an open wound
          noun
          1. species of tree with edible fruit, two seeds one above the other, round like an apple. Ripe August - October
          noun
          1. rhinoceros beetle
          transitive-verb
          1. to break off twigs or small branches to harvest fruit from a tree
          adjective
          1. round
          2. spoken of animals or plants folding up when interfered with, i.e. sensitive weed
          manner
          1. cannot
          intransitive-verb
          1. to become ashamed, shy, bashful
          transitive-verb
          1. to shame someone
          intransitive-verb
          1. scold, growl someone
          intransitive-verb
          1. argue
          noun
          1. dingo
          noun
          1. black beetle
          adjective
          1. lumpy
          adjective
          1. guilty
          adjective
          1. together
          adjective
          1. close together
          transitive-verb
          1. to put things together
          noun
          1. big toe
          adjective
          1. same time
          manner
          1. secretly, quietly
          2. between Tribulation and Bailey's creek
          noun
          1. the tableland the other side of Rossville (place name)
          noun
          1. kind of bird
          noun
          1. wind
          noun
          1. hair of a pig
          transitive-verb
          1. singeing the hair of the pig before cooking
          noun
          1. small red ant
          adjective
          1. funny, creepy feeling, like you have when something is crawling on you, nervous, a special feeling against.
          noun
          1. umbrella part of umbrella palm
          direction
          1. south and east; south along the coast used in referring to Cairns or Brisbane
          direction
          1. across, over, the other side of
          noun
          1. species of bee
          noun
          1. waddy club
          transitive-verb
          1. lean
          intransitive-verb
          1. lean back
          noun
          1. stick of flexible bamboo used in nose piercing
          noun
          1. Jubilee (place name)
          transitive-verb
          1. to close, shut, bury
          noun
          1. wing
          intransitive-verb
          1. to fly
          adjective
          1. all
          noun
          1. knife (english loan word)
          manner
          1. already
          noun
          1. species of shallow water oyster found on rock
          noun
          1. duck
          transitive-verb
          1. seek, look for
          intransitive-verb
          1. to be looked for
          2. to be lost
          transitive-verb
          1. to lose
          transitive-verb
          1. to eat, to drink
          adjective
          1. busty
          noun
          1. ashes
          2. white pus
          noun
          1. sound of a motor, rattling noise
          intransitive-verb
          1. peep
          noun
          1. ancestral home out west from which the special corroborees have come
          noun
          1. squid
          transitive-verb
          1. soak, leach
          time
          1. a long time
          time
          1. a long time ago
          time
          1. for a long time
          noun
          1. near Grasstree where footprints are (Ngalba-bulal legend)
          time
          1. hickory, good timber for woomeras
          noun
          1. low tide
          noun
          1. species of small crayfish, not eaten
          noun
          1. mother's father (relationship term)
          noun
          1. hide
          2. steal
          intransitive-verb
          1. to hide from someone, to run away
          noun
          1. species of yam
          2. flame tree. The flowering of this tree signals the time when the scrub hen eggs are in season
          adjective
          1. red (yalanji) (nyungkul - mula-mula)
          noun
          1. Father-in-law, son-in-law (relationship term)
          noun
          1. a term you can call a person when you can't say that person's name, i.e. if anyone has the same name as a recently dead person; or if someone has the same name as a woman's son-in-law. The taboo names for them become ngalba.
          noun
          1. Mt. Peter Bottle (place name)
          pr
          1. we two inclusive
          pr
          1. we two exclusive
          noun
          1. species of tree with edible red seed like an apple, ripe in August - October
          noun
          1. bush fire
          noun
          1. mullet
          noun
          1. near Wyalla Plains
          noun
          1. jumper ant
          noun
          1. below Roaring Meg Falls (place name)
          noun
          1. sand crab
          adjective
          1. refreshed, as after a swim. Can also mean healthy, lively, happy, glad, mentally alert
          noun
          1. flames
          noun
          1. cliff, steep place
          adjective
          1. not seeing or noticing or recognising
          2. absence
          noun
          1. to strong a taste, i.e. too sweet
          2. grog, liquor
          adjective
          1. separate
          transitive-verb
          1. to separate
          noun
          1. Mother, mother's sisters, great grand-daughter (relationship term
          2. below Meg Falls (place name)
          noun
          1. the main part in things that go naturally together, as the rifle and bullets, or the tape player in cassette player and tapes
          noun
          1. sissy, mama's baby
          noun
          1. mother and daughter
          noun
          1. Emogin Beach
          noun
          1. dingo
          pr
          1. we plural inclusive
          noun
          1. mouth
          adjective
          1. nuisance, always telling someone to do something
          transitive-verb
          1. carry a rumour
          adjective
          1. in one place
          manner
          1. only, for just a little bit, just that
          manner
          1. just in case
          adjective
          1. disappointed
          transitive-verb
          1. ignorant of something
          transitive-verb
          1. to be surprised or unexpected
          intransitive-verb
          1. surprise
          noun
          1. echidna, porcupine
          noun
          1. hiccups, hiccoughs
          noun
          1. bark, as of a dog
          2. sound of a dog barking
          noun
          1. taste
          2. voice of one's spirit left behind
          noun
          1. bad taste
          noun
          1. worm
          noun
          1. father, father's brother (relationship term)
          noun
          1. father and son
          manner
          1. secret purpose, pretence
          manner
          1. hinting to find out something, not asking straight out
          adjective
          1. no good, wilted as nganka nganjay, "wilted flowers"
          2. bad smell. Methylated spirits is sometimes called nganjay
          pr
          1. we plural exclusive
          noun
          1. grass tree (blackboy). If jarramali (thunderstorm) comes, anyone can burn one of these; ironwood bark (jujabala) wild grape vines (kangka); or grasstree pitch (kanunjul). The smell will make the thunder go away
          noun
          1. area across from Simm's Wharf behind Mangrove Island. (place name)
          noun
          1. flower, blossom
          adjective
          1. too quickly
          pr
          1. me, direct object of the verb
          adjective
          1. old time Aboriginal trial. The one on trial has spears thrown at him. If he is able to dodge them, he goes free.
          exclamation
          1. reaction to hurt
          noun
          1. desert
          adjective
          1. get ready, be prepared
          adjective
          1. not good at anything
          policeman
          1. policeman
          noun
          1. haze, mist
          noun
          1. onion (english loan word)
          2. sugar bag
          noun
          1. root
          noun
          1. upper Daintree River (place name)
          transitive-verb
          1. build
          2. spread
          noun
          1. water hen
          noun
          1. shovelnose ray
          noun
          1. splash
          manner
          1. also
          noun
          1. species of shell fish, edible
          manner
          1. fin
          transitive-verb
          1. win over, beat
          2. to pass
          noun
          1. stranger
          lower legs
          1. lower legs
          noun
          1. near Romeo (place name)
          adjective
          1. obliging, easy to get along with because he does what you ask him
          shellbait
          1. shellbait
          adjective
          1. husky, or squeaky voice
          noun
          1. infant, newborn baby
          noun
          1. sea turtle
          noun
          1. a shout from a long ways away
          noun
          1. always coming for food
          noun
          1. freshwater crocodile
          noun
          1. name for spouse (used only by old people now)
          noun
          1. my
          2. for me, for my benefit
          pr
          1. I went to the store
          manner
          1. by myself
          noun
          1. boundary or border
          noun
          1. a cold, or any sickness of the lungs as bronchitis
          noun
          1. have a cold or chest complaint
          intransitive-verb
          1. cough
          transitive-verb
          1. to tease
          noun
          1. We were going heard a grunt, a pig coming
          intransitive-verb
          1. to grunt
          intransitive-verb
          1. to grunt
          noun
          1. grunt
          intransitive-verb
          1. roar or growl like a dog
          noun
          1. fidgety, restless, uneasy
          noun
          1. South of Tribulation
          noun
          1. beetle fully developed from mujurr (witchetty grub)
          noun
          1. moray eel. Also used sometimes for sea snake
          2. between kangkiji and Kaway (snake story site)
          manner
          1. maybe, perhaps
          direction
          1. the other side
          direction
          1. across, over
          noun
          1. Aboriginal law, the dreamtime stories anything to do with the dreamtime
          noun
          1. a man or woman who is jealous-suspicious of his/her mate
          noun
          1. a person who is always jealous, always suspicious of what his/her spouse is up to
          noun
          1. freshwater turtle
          noun
          1. fun
          noun
          1. something or someone that is always funny/playful
          noun
          1. funny
          intransitive-verb
          1. playing together
          noun
          1. for fun or in fun, pretend
          intransitive-verb
          1. to play (yalanji) (nyungkul - kinkay)
          noun
          1. a man calls his sister's daughters (ngujurr) (relationship term)
          noun
          1. the asking for things
          intransitive-verb
          1. to beg, ask
          noun
          1. someone who is always asking things, beggar
          adjective
          1. ngulkurr
          adjective
          1. good
          2. well, not sick
          3. good in the moral sense
          adjective
          1. pretty, beautiful
          noun
          1. voice without words, also to hum a tune
          noun
          1. seashell
          noun
          1. Rossville
          adjective
          1. person with teeth missing
          adjective
          1. fully trained boy. In the old time the boys were put through a course of physical training which included marches, hunting, etc. By about the age of 20, they were ngumbal, fully trained and eligible to marry.
          noun
          1. little spotted bandicoot
          adjective
          1. black, charcoal
          noun
          1. species of snake
          noun
          1. up above the Zigzag on way to Main Camp
          adjective
          1. wet
          direction
          1. this side
          adjective
          1. dark. It is usually contracted to nguwulnguwul or to ngulngul in fast speech
          noun
          1. kidneys
          noun
          1. charcoal; hot coals or hot ashes
          noun
          1. an open place (yalanji - nyungkul - warrmba)
          transitive-verb
          1. to find
          noun
          1. imagination, something you can't see but can picture in your mind
          adjective
          1. to be in a hurry
          noun
          1. dilly bag
          2. the tree bark used to make into strips and weave fishing nets and dilly bags
          3. spider web
          4. placenta
          manner
          1. too soon for others who aren't yet ready
          transitive-verb
          1. straighten, measure, aim.
          transitive-verb
          1. jealous, envious, because of another's possessions.
          noun
          1. shadow, picture, statue, movie, cards, reflection in a mirror or smooth water
          noun
          1. decorated butt of woomera
          noun
          1. rope, also dilly bag made from rope
          noun
          1. fog
          noun
          1. mopoke, owl
          2. edible fig and the tree
          3. name of rock near Pearce's place, visible only at low tide (story site)
          noun
          1. tree and its edible fruit, found only in deep scrub
          noun
          1. Watermelon Creek
          noun
          1. a woman's husband's younger brother, a man's wife's younger sister (relationship term)
          manner
          1. visible
          adjective
          1. invisible
          intransitive-verb
          1. appear, show oneself
          transitive-verb
          1. to kill as soon as the thing you kill is seen
          adjective
            transitive-verb
            1. plan to do, but unable to; to want something but can't get it.
            adjective
            1. sticky (as honey)
            noun
            1. tongue
            transitive-verb
            1. to perceive, to hear, to see. If you need to specify between seeing and hearing, you can say milkabu nyajil (hear), and miyilda nyajil "see"
            transitive-verb
            1. to know without seeing or hearing
            transitive-verb
            1. to know without seeing or hearing
            transitive-verb
            1. to obey
            transitive-verb
            1. the command form of nyajil
            transitive-verb
            1. to boil
            adjective
            1. sulky
            noun
            1. rubbish, (but not household rubbish) such as dead leaves or stuff washed up on the beach. Also leaf mould from scrub, good for growing things.
            transitive-verb
            1. to chop
            transitive-verb
            1. to stop someone, to prevent, to stop a motor
            transitive-verb
            1. pour
            2. spill
            intransitive-verb
            1. spill out
            adjective
            1. aged, wrinkled, shrunken. Can refer to people, cloth or food, as an old wrinkled apple.
            transitive-verb
            1. step on, tread on, pinch, squash
            noun
            1. black kangaroo
            transitive-verb
            1. snatch, grab
            noun
            1. waist
            time
              time
              1. very soon
              time
              1. soon
              time
              1. until now
              intransitive-verb
              1. bump against something
              noun
              1. grunt
              intransitive-verb
              1. to grunt
              noun
              1. nuisance
              noun
              1. corner of the eye
              adjective
              1. sook, crybaby
              manner
              1. the big green ant that is eaten, comes in December - January
              noun
              1. noise of crying, weeping, mourning.
              intransitive-verb
              1. to start crying
              noun
              1. appendix
              adjective
              1. one
              manner
              1. only once
              pr
              1. he, she, it
              manner
              1. by himself/himself
              intransitive-verb
              1. boast, skite
              transitive-verb
              1. to smell or taste
              noun
              1. saliva, spittle
              noun
              1. crave
              transitive-verb
              1. to spit
              noun
              1. leech
              2. coolibah tree (messmate)
              noun
              1. wax made by bees
              noun
              1. cheek
              adjective
              1. confused, all mixed up
              intransitive-verb
              1. to return, go back
              intransitive-verb
              1. missed
              pronoun
              1. he, she, its
              noun
              1. direct object him, her, it (Yalanji) (Nyungkul - nyungunyin)
              transitive-verb
              1. to recognize; to see and know someone before he sees and knows you
              transitive-verb
              1. extinguish, or to put a fire or light out
              transitive-verb
              1. to poke out the tongue
              noun
              1. noise, people noise
              2. refers to last stages of labour
              noun
              1. people making too much noise
              transitive-verb
              1. to grind, sharpen
              transitive-verb
              1. blame, accuse
              noun
              1. doctor-man
              noun
              1. thigh, hip
              noun
              1. shade
              noun
              1. Torres Strait Island pigeon
              noun
              1. species of tree with edible white seed the size of an apple, ripe. August - October
              noun
              1. magic instrument
              noun
              1. gesture of affection, to pinch or pat a person's cheek, usually done to a baby
              transitive-verb
              1. weather - rain or cold - entering
              noun
              1. cyclone
              manner
              1. wrong, incorrect
              2. children of an incorrect marriage
              manner
              1. wrong, wrongly
              noun
              1. big yellow March fly
              2. crow
              noun
              1. stinging vine
              noun
              1. prawn, lobster
              noun
              1. wooden sword. The Port Douglas and rain forest people used them
              adjective
              1. light colour, white
              noun
              1. half-caste (darker than barbi half-caste)
              noun
              1. kookaburra
              noun
              1. spreading branches of a tree
              arm
              1. arm
              intransitive-verb
              1. to enter, to go into
              transitive-verb
              1. to cause to enter, to put into
              noun
              1. whiskers, beard
              2. name of one of the tribe moieties
              3. type of honey bee, almost like the dabu (other moiety), but bigger and nests in trees
              noun
              1. literally "with whiskers". Freshwater catfish are sometimes called this
              adjective
              1. being good at working or getting food, as a good hunter
              noun
              1. up above mission site, bordering Wujal-wujal (place name)
              noun
              1. near Grasstree where big footprints are (Ngalba-bulal story) (place name)
              noun
              1. butterfly
              2. small stingaray, spotted. Looks like a butterfly flying through the water
              3. flying fish
              4. species of mangrove - long round seed
              adjective
              1. recently bereaved, in mourning
              adjective
              1. downwards
              intransitive-verb
              1. lean or lay down
              intransitive-verb
              1. bend down
              noun
              1. diamond fish, devil ray
              noun
              1. English. This is not used very much anymore
              noun
              1. black scrub goanna
              manner
              1. right past
              noun
              1. log
              noun
              1. one who interferes to stop a fight. He holds the arms of a relative so he can't fight anymore
              direction
              1. left
              noun
              1. left-handed person
              transitive-verb
              1. open
              2. wake (someone) up
              3. take clothes off
              noun
              1. swamp
              intransitive-verb
              1. to hang
              2. to float, as a log on the water
              transitive-verb
              1. to hang up
              transitive-verb
              1. to beg, to ask for something - Nyungkul
              noun
              1. face
              noun
              1. species of bird. Sings out early in the morning, sounds like a saw
              2. near Thompson Creek. Story of that place has the same name (place name)
              noun
              1. stubborn
              intransitive-verb
              1. to faint
              adjective
              1. sad
              adjective
              1. someone who is going around after sex everywhere, can't stay in one place
              intransitive-verb
              1. disappearing, becoming few
              intransitive-verb
              1. reconcile
              intransitive-verb
              1. annoy
              adjective
              1. stubborn
              intransitive-verb
              1. giddy, dizzy
              transitive-verb
              1. look around
              adjective
              1. different
              noun
              1. temple (body part)
              transitive-verb
              1. provide, put out
              transitive-verb
              1. explain, tell the news
              intransitive-verb
              1. share out, portion out
              noun
              1. platypus
              noun
              1. species of tree. The fruit is a long sweet seed, ripe in August - October. It is edible if ripe, if unripe it must be roasted first.
              noun
              1. fish hawk, brown hark, red-backed sea eagle. One of the sacred birds.
              intransitive-verb
              1. to get up, to move out of the way, to come out
              noun
              1. hat
              noun
              1. policeman (hat turned up)
              adjective
              1. fat
              noun
              1. boomerang
              noun
              1. a fruit bearing vine, found at Main Camp
              transitive-verb
              1. choose; separate out, examine, then choose; count
              direction
              1. up, upriver
              direction
              1. above
              noun
              1. small tree or wood goanna
              question
              1. where
              question
              1. where to
              question
              1. where from
              noun
              1. species of ti tree, used for bark painting. Bark also used for roof of house
              question
              1. how, which, how many
              question
              1. which way
              question
              1. how
              question
              1. when
              noun
              1. overactive children
              transitive-verb
              1. desire to accompany, but unable to
              question
              1. who (nyungkul) (yalanji - wanya)
              noun
              1. a tree which grows along the water and has red flowers
              2. necklace made from little black and red seeds called kubirr-kubirr and threaded on a string
              noun
              1. upper reaches of Daintree River
              noun
              1. hiccoughs
              question
              1. who (yalanji) (nyungkul - wanju)
              question
              1. what
              question
              1. why to
              question
              1. why, i.e. as cause of accident or sickness
              question
              1. with what (what (do you) use)
              question
              1. why
              noun
              1. king fish, Queensland groper, rock cod
              noun
              1. stomach, belly
              adjective
              1. greedy person
              adjective
              1. pregnant
              noun
              1. men's dance
              noun
              1. empty box
              noun
              1. sign, call, message which is sent by telepathy
              transitive-verb
              1. to throw a message to another person by telepathy. A coal is taken from the fire and thrown into the dark.
              noun
              1. yawn
              intransitive-verb
              1. to defy
              noun
              1. species of tree, messmate or stringy bark
              noun
              1. bailer shell used in the old time for a billy
              transitive-verb
              1. doubt, not believe
              2. to run someone down
              intransitive-verb
              1. to lie defend oneself when accused
              noun
              1. sleep
              2. days
              noun
              1. habitual sleeper, one who is always sleeping
              adjective
              1. sleepy
              intransitive-verb
              1. to sleep
              intransitive-verb
              1. to sleep heavily
              noun
              1. species of wild yam
              noun
              1. water spirit
              2. name of mythical tribe of women in Kumarkaji story
              3. upper reaches of the Thompson Creek (place name) (story site)
              transitive-verb
              1. to purify (by smoking) the things of dead people because of spirits
              noun
              1. axe
              2. house made of grass, "beehive house"
              intransitive-verb
              1. to run, to fly
              noun
              1. Sister-in-law or brother-in-law (actual) (relationship term)
              transitive-verb
              1. to watch, to see where someone is going
              adjective
              1. can't come close because of relationship
              noun
              1. Helenvale
              2. English loan, from Watkins
              noun
              1. type of tribal dance, corroboree
              noun
              1. uncovered or exposed place, in the open
              transitive-verb
              1. find (yalanji) (nyungkul - ngunnga - bungal)
              intransitive-verb
              1. to groan, suffer because of pain and/or sickness
              noun
              1. young man
              noun
              1. young men
              noun
              1. tree bark which can be used as vine. it was used to make fishnets, which were dragged through the water in the dry season when the water goes down.
              intransitive-verb
                noun
                1. the spirit of a man
                2. breath
                ass
                1. wish, want, need, love, like
                intransitive-verb
                1. to have a rest
                adjective
                1. worried, anxious, yearn
                transitive-verb
                1. give something and take it back again
                manner
                1. alone, unsociable
                intransitive-verb
                1. to go back all the time to the same place, as a good place to fish
                adjective
                1. courageous
                intransitive-verb
                1. satisfied, feel good about something
                adjective
                1. short-winded, gasping
                intransitive-verb
                1. anxious, dread, to fear consequences
                2. the beating of one's heart
                noun
                1. spirit left behind in a tree whose voice (nganja) is singing out
                adjective
                1. a quiet person
                ass
                1. to love very much, like very much
                ass
                1. used instead of a dead person's name
                transitive-verb
                1. satisfied
                intransitive-verb
                1. to have a rest
                intransitive-verb
                1. agree
                adjective
                1. happy
                intransitive-verb
                1. to hold one's breath
                adjective
                1. willing, glad
                transitive-verb
                1. to make happy, glad
                2. promise
                intransitive-verb
                1. decide
                intransitive-verb
                1. glad
                intransitive-verb
                1. thirsty
                2. exhausted, tired
                intransitive-verb
                1. to breathe heavily, to sigh
                transitive-verb
                1. wish, hope, usually without prospects of getting what you wish for
                noun
                1. river
                noun
                1. cottontree. Canoes were made out of these and the candlenut tree, bilar. When it blooms (big red flowers) it signals the start of the scrub hen egg season
                noun
                1. long wild yam
                transitive-verb
                1. to lead
                noun
                1. Wayalla Plains (place name)
                noun
                1. hair belt
                noun
                1. white person (waybul) (nyungkal yalanji)
                noun
                1. white person (waybala) (nyungkal yalanji)
                intransitive-verb
                1. jumping around because he's happy
                2. good dancer
                transitive-verb
                1. to cook food
                2. to burn something
                intransitive-verb
                1. to burn oneself
                noun
                1. native cat
                noun
                1. axe
                adjective
                1. slow, gently
                noun
                1. red ochre
                intransitive-verb
                1. to swell up
                2. to rise, as bread dough rising
                noun
                1. species of yam
                adjective
                1. strong, hard
                direction
                1. the other side of. Fast speech for ngubar-ngubar.
                noun
                1. heart
                intransitive-verb
                1. strain the heart, as from lifting something heavy
                noun
                1. hump, as on a Brahman bull
                noun
                1. site of present mission and up to the waterfall (place name)
                noun
                1. Wujal Wujal (place name)
                transitive-verb
                1. blame because of your relationship to the guilty one, as if a child steals something, then the owner will blame the mother.
                noun
                1. sponge made from grass, used as a sop for eating honey or soup
                noun
                1. darkness, night
                transitive-verb
                1. to frighten by tricking
                noun
                1. autumn
                noun
                1. hairy yam
                2. must be cooked, ground and leaved before eating
                noun
                1. freshwater prawn, the big one with long legs
                transitive-verb
                1. follow
                2. weave
                3. make a fence
                4. imitate
                noun
                1. flames
                intransitive-verb
                1. to die
                2. to become unconcious
                intransitive-verb
                1. scar
                noun
                1. old woman (english loan word)
                noun
                1. bamboo spear stick
                noun
                1. sacred dance of women at which the men sing but do not dance
                noun
                1. soldier crab
                time
                1. forever, always
                adjective
                1. long time
                time
                1. long time ago
                adjective
                1. to empty out, bail out
                noun
                1. fig
                noun
                1. old man (english loan word)
                2. an old animal
                3. husband
                transitive-verb
                1. to blow
                noun
                1. song
                intransitive-verb
                1. to sing
                noun
                1. stringy bark tree
                noun
                1. ankle, shin
                adjective
                1. for nothing, for no reason
                adjective
                1. hot
                intransitive-verb
                1. to lie down
                2. to sleep
                3. to have
                intransitive-verb
                1. state of being
                transitive-verb
                1. marry
                noun
                1. name of the English bee and its honey. Also used for honey bought in store
                adjective
                1. quiet, lethargic, half asleep, won't do anything, shy, doesn't talk. Opposite of ngalu-ngalu
                transitive-verb
                1. bring, take
                transitive-verb
                1. persuade
                noun
                1. Mt Alexandra (place name)
                transitive-verb
                1. to finish food up
                noun
                1. sun
                intransitive-verb
                1. sunrise
                intransitive-verb
                1. sunset
                noun
                1. the hot season
                intransitive-verb
                1. the sun comes out from behind the cloud
                adjective
                1. midday
                intransitive-verb
                1. sun rise. The sun is coming up.
                adjective
                1. midday
                noun
                1. cry of a woman in distress
                noun
                1. point straight out from Bloomfield River (place name)
                noun
                1. domestic turkey, not the scrub turkey
                noun
                1. no personality, no style, not a pleasure to be with
                time
                1. tomorrow
                time
                1. day after tomorrow
                time
                1. morning
                noun
                1. mimic
                noun
                1. dragon fly
                intransitive-verb
                1. to dance, swing
                2. to gamble
                noun
                1. tip of tail or top of tree, but not point of hill
                noun
                1. humpy
                noun
                1. whirlwind
                noun
                1. navel
                2. umbilical cord
                noun
                1. mud wasp
                transitive-verb
                1. shake
                noun
                1. fog, mist rising from the river
                noun
                1. hornet, bumblebee. Nests in a stump or the ground
                adjective
                1. spotted, striped, speckled
                manner
                1. crossways, lopsided
                intransitive-verb
                1. hurt, ache
                noun
                1. robber, thief
                noun
                1. someone who is always stealing
                noun
                1. small crab found on reef
                noun
                1. species of shellfish
                noun
                1. top
                adjective
                1. unable to see properly - if too far away, too dark, too small
                noun
                1. whip (english loan word)
                transitive-verb
                1. to whip someone
                noun
                1. jellyfish
                noun
                1. species of tree found in the scrub
                noun
                1. juice of meat
                noun
                1. spirit of sick person. Only a few people who know the wuynkul can see and talk to him. if they stare at him he hits them with a stick and the next day they become sick. He has eyes in front and behind him, and can see if bama stare at him. He can appear as a person, as a hairy brute with long teeth and a bad smell, or as a wild pig or snake. When by other persons, he has left the sick person.
                noun
                1. one who is possessed by the wuyngkul spirit
                noun
                1. seaweed
                noun
                1. species of fish - Striped toby, also toadfish
                exclamation
                1. exclamation of surprise, attention getter.
                noun
                1. older brother
                2. freshwater eel - has a big head and is smaller than dandarribina. It does not have much taste, no fat, people don't eat it unless there's no other meat.
                noun
                1. younger brother
                adjective
                1. big
                noun
                1. shark
                transitive-verb
                1. to laugh
                adjective
                1. full (of food) (nyungkul) (yalanji - yanji)
                transitive-verb
                  transitive-verb
                    question
                    1. what about?
                    manner
                    1. like
                    adjective
                    1. alright, okay
                    manner
                    1. alike
                    exclamation
                    1. expressing astonishment to another's statement. (nyungkul - yukil)
                    manner
                      transitive-verb
                      1. to say or do
                      manner
                      1. also, in the same way
                      demonstrative
                      1. here, this.
                      time
                      1. immeditely
                      demonstrative
                      1. this area or place
                      demonstrative
                      1. at this place (nyungkul) (yalanji - yaluy)
                      time
                      1. by this time
                      time
                      1. in the meantime
                      time
                      1. at the same time, when
                      demonstrative
                      1. this kind
                      adjective
                      1. big
                      time
                      1. early morning (english loan word, from early)
                      intransitive-verb
                      1. limp
                      noun
                      1. cripple
                      noun
                      1. type of corroboree
                      adjective
                      1. shallow water
                      noun
                      1. seashore, beach
                      adjective
                      1. wide
                      noun
                      1. whale
                      noun
                      1. sea turtle, poisonous if sacs aren't removed
                      noun
                      1. manta ray (yalanji) (nyungkul - yidi)
                      noun
                      1. white wattle
                      noun
                      1. eagle hawk. Totem of all the Kuku-Yalanji people. It represents the country to which they belong
                      demonstrative
                      1. here, this place (yalanji) (nyungkul - yanyu)
                      noun
                      1. house
                      2. opium
                      conjunction
                      1. but, however
                      negative
                      1. none
                      adjective
                      1. slow
                      noun
                      1. household goods, collection of personal things
                      adjective
                      1. something used before, as scraps, rubbish, leftovers. Things that float up on the beach such as timber, usable things only.
                      2. ready
                      transitive-verb
                      1. get ready, prepare
                      transitive-verb
                      1. overhear
                      noun
                      1. green ant. There are used as a medecine for the common cold and other chest complaints. They can be crushed and the odour inhaled to cure headache; or the eggs, larvae, and pupae from the nexts can be mixed with salt water and taken
                      noun
                      1. handkerchief (english loan word)
                      noun
                      1. rustling noise, as the wind blowing through trees or grass
                      adjective
                      1. replete, full, satisfied after eating (yalanji) (nyungkul - yajin)
                      adjective
                      1. overeating
                      transitive-verb
                      1. to see and examine close up
                      demonstrative
                      1. this, here (nyungkul) (yalanji - yuluy, yanya)
                      adjective
                      1. fresh water (opposite of kalki)
                      2. right, not angry or cheeky
                      3. cool, not too hot
                      intransitive-verb
                      1. strain, sprain
                      intransitive-verb
                        manner
                        1. all the time, regularly, repeatedly, always
                        noun
                        1. corpse
                        direction
                        1. that way. This is always accompanied by a gesture.
                        noun
                        1. horse
                        noun
                        1. bee, the smallest bee in the bush
                        noun
                        1. group of children
                        noun
                        1. rainbow snake (mythical serpent)
                        2. deep water hole
                        adjective
                        1. wet
                        noun
                        1. black wattle tree and its yellow flower
                        noun
                        1. possum
                        noun
                        1. species of palm tree
                        noun
                        1. stingray. Long ago only old people were allowed to eat it, but now this isn't followed much. Spearing one will bring on thunder and rainstorms.
                        transitive-verb
                        1. scatter (like seeds)
                        adjective
                        1. thin, emaciated
                        adjective
                        1. strong, hard, swift
                        noun
                        1. whisper
                        noun
                        1. loya cane. Also walking stick made from the loya cane. The roots were used to make the walking stick.
                        noun
                        1. Snapper island (place name)
                        noun
                        1. between Kangkiji and Kaway (place name)
                        noun
                        1. spotted manta ray (nyungkul) (yalanji - yalnganji)
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to put
                        noun
                        1. cricket
                        noun
                        1. shell of egg
                        2. fish scales
                        noun
                        1. little silver of something, as a silver of glass
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to split - as wood
                        noun
                        1. above the Stoney crossing in the Daintree River (place name)
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to take clothes, shoes off (yalanji only)
                        noun
                        1. hardened beeswax, hardened with ironwood root juice. The juice is extracted by heating and is used to make spears.
                        noun
                        1. night owl
                        noun
                        1. bank or river
                        noun
                        1. didgeridoo
                        noun
                        1. curse song
                        time
                        1. yesterday
                        time
                        1. day before yesterday
                        time
                        1. late afternoon, when the sun is in the west
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to throw
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. in disorder and disarray
                        noun
                        1. type of grasshopper
                        noun
                        1. creek
                        noun
                        1. forehead (nyungkul) (yalanji - munju)
                        noun
                        1. bald headed
                        adjective
                        1. a round face, like an Islander
                        transitive-verb
                        1. come too close, knock down
                        noun
                        1. message
                        noun
                        1. with a message
                        noun
                        1. lips
                        noun
                        1. fish spear
                        noun
                        1. forest kingfisher
                        adjective
                        1. another, other
                        noun
                        1. knife spear
                        noun
                        1. fear (jalunji)
                        adjective
                        1. frightened
                        noun
                        1. cicada
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. to grunt
                        noun
                        1. fig parrot
                        noun
                        1. ribs, side
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. lying on the side
                        noun
                        1. dilly bag for holding remains
                        noun
                        1. species of fig tree with edible fruit (longest black fruit which becomes rip in the wet)
                        demonstrative
                        1. that,there
                        time
                        1. then, next, after that
                        demonstrative
                        1. those
                        demonstrative
                        1. there
                        noun
                        1. fright, fear
                        noun
                        1. afraid
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to frighten
                        noun
                        1. tide
                        2. fruit juice
                        noun
                        1. waterfall
                        noun
                        1. rainbow
                        transitive-verb
                        1. drag, roll
                        noun
                        1. everywhere
                        2. to talk "this way and that"
                        noun
                        1. frog
                        noun
                        1. taboo (yalanji) (nyungkul - jabul)
                        noun
                        1. taboo place
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to scratch, to scape
                        noun
                        1. to scratch yourself
                        noun
                        1. running water
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. leak
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. to shout, cry out
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to rip open/apart
                        noun
                        1. many-pronged fish spear
                        noun
                        1. labour pains
                        noun
                        1. urine
                        transtive-verb
                        1. to tickle
                        manner
                        1. close
                        pronoun
                        1. you, dual
                        noun
                        1. sawfish
                        transitive-verb
                        1. start something, like a motor
                        noun
                        1. large frog, edible
                        adjective
                        1. true (nyungkul) (yalanji - yalakay)
                        transitive-verb
                        1. swear
                        adjective
                        1. big or thick
                        noun
                        1. Annan River
                        noun
                        1. a song sung by old men on behalf of someone whose relative has died in an unknown or far coutnry. The song is to send the dead man's spirit back to the right place
                        noun
                        1. board, plank. Contrast with kimil, "round stick"
                        noun
                        1. large round oyster
                        noun
                        1. any soft covering such as skin or vegetable or fruit peeling
                        noun
                        1. Mt. Poverty.
                        adjective
                        1. poor physical condition, lean
                        transitive-verb
                        1. welcome, to sing out to someone to welcome him
                        2. praise
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. brag
                        2. skite
                        noun
                        1. mountain near Mt. Poverty (place name)
                        noun
                        1. wattle tree
                        noun
                        1. bottle brush tree
                        pronoun
                        1. you, singular
                        pronoun
                        1. it's up to you (idiom)
                        manner
                        1. by yourself
                        transitive-verb
                        1. send
                        2. to allow to go
                        3. free from custody
                        adjective
                        1. your, singular possessive
                        2. for you
                        pronoun
                        1. you (object, Yalanji)
                        pronoun
                        1. you (object, Nyungkul)
                        noun
                        1. sea snake
                        transitive-verb
                        1. swallow
                        pronoun
                        1. you (plural)
                        transitive-verb
                        1. scrape
                        intransitive-verb
                        1. suck down, as in quicksand or mud
                        noun
                        1. species of tree, called "dead finish" by whites. It is found only in Kuku-Nyungkul country except for one tree standing all alone at Main camp which is in Kuku-Yalanji country. The story is that he came from Romeo and was in Love with (bujanji) but was rejected and is now standing alone
                        transitive-verb
                        1. to join together by means of something else, as nailing, sewing, etc.
                        noun
                        1. yes
                        exclamation
                        1. exclamation of surprise and awe, usually prolonged and said in a breathy voice and level intonation
                        noun
                        1. a father is called this when he loses a child through death