1. come. Baby talk, usually used with very small children only. Used only as a command.

1. species of bloodwood tree

1. ask. "Ngayu nyungundu babajin, Wanju nyulu?" "I asked him, Who is he?"

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"

1. anglefish

1. older sister. "Yabaju-karra babarranda dungan mayika", "The younger brothers went to their older sister for food"

1. grandmother, father's mother. "Babingka jija kujin-kujil", "Grand mother is looking after her grandchild"
2. grandfather, mother's father

1. down, down river, down hill. "Ngayu bada beachmunbu dungan", "I went to the beach"

1. bend down. "Yungu dukul badamaka", "You bend your head down"

1. underneath, below. "Kaban bada-bada tablebu", "The paper is under the table"

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"

1. spotted eagle ray

1. hook and line. "ngayu badurriji bundanday", "I'm fishing (sitting with hook and line)"

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)

1. blue-tongue lizard
2. place name. spring above middle camp, story site

1. tired. "ngayu baja-burray jilbamun", "I'm tired after the walkabout"

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"

1. species of bower bird"

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

1. stubborn

1. Moreton Bay ash.

1. Moreton Bay ash.

1. loya vine fern leaves, used in making mia-mia

1. loya vine fern leaves, used in making mia-mia

1. painful. "Bangkarr bajaybajay flumunmun", "My body is sore after the fly"

1. a sore

1. bone

1. lump on neck

1. nuisance. "Yinya karrkay bajurr bajaku", "That child is a big nuisance"

1. to scold. "Ngayu kangkal bajurr-bangkan, nyulu cassette dumbarrinya", "I scolded my child because he broke the cassette"

1. slippery lizard

1. dig. "Jana bubu bakan", "They dug a hole"
2. stab, prick. "Sisterrangka needleda bakan", "Sister gave me a shot (pricked with a needle)"

1. green pigeon

1. ridge pole

1. short light brown or yellow water snake

1. toys with wheels. English loan word from buggy.

1. place name, the river and ground at Butcher's Hill

1. place name, point off Snapper Island

1. poison plant found at Rossville.
2. tobacco. This is no longer in use for tobacco.

1. feathertail flider or sugar glider

1. skinny, weak from sickness or not enough to eat. "Yundu balaman mayi karimun", "You became skinny from not having enough food"

1. place name. Plantation Creek and the ground around its mouth

1. boil

1. level, flat
2. a "Yundu balnhi wunay, bayan ngara bubunga balanbalanba.", "When you camp out, you should build your shelter on flat ground"

1. high tide
2. place name - Okay Creek ground

1. human body flea

1. queenfish

1. level ground

1. pregnant

1. shine "Wungaraba dayirr bajaku balban." , "The sun shone brightly"

1. lightning "Balbaynja dalbarrinji", "Lighting might strike"

1. hunt for, search for

1. leaky, "Bayan balibali, bana walalarrku", "The house is leaky, the water is coming in."

1. people belonging to open country

1. A kind of food. It is coked in the fire, groud up and eaten.

1. ladie's dilly bag, made from grass or black palm

1. something fishy
2. place name, mouth of Bloomfield River, south side

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"

1. tell, "ngayu yunundu balkankuda", "I already told you"
2. make, "nyulu kalka balkan", "he made a spear"

1. discuss
2. talk together

1. species of tree

1. not quite fully grown
2. boy's age before he becomes a warru

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"

1. not want, "ngayu diyika baluda", "I don't want any tea right now"
2. don't want

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"

1. shell back snail

1. spear thrower

1. people, mankind
2. mankind
3. aborigine, not a white person

1. my word, "bama ngaykunku, nganya balu kunijinkuda", "my word, I was almost hit"

1. call by kinship term, "ngayu nyungunin bambal babi", "I call her grandmother"
2. choose in the sense of claim

1. me first
2. first in line
3. first to get something

1. sick

1. a sickly person

1. a long thin variety of yam

1. water

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

1. the people that belong to the mouth of the river and along the beach
2. people who belong to Banabila

1. pineapple

1. name given to a doctor man
2. doctor

1. fresh water snake
2. snake

1. place name - Spring Vale

1. point of tail
2. tip of tail

1. species of tree
2. also the fruit of the tree which is like a small cherry, ripe in December

1. waist on the side above the hips
2. love handles

1. to sing, shout, cry loudly, "kaykay-kaykayangka wulngku bangka-bangkangan", "the children sang loudly"
2. sing
3. shout
4. wail
5. cry loudly

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"

1. tongs made from voya vine, used in cooking in a kurrma - an earth oven

1. place name of ground where Grass tree and Bijan creeks meet.

1. sweet potato

1. a kind of root, a medecine for sores. Boil the roots and wash the sores with the water.

1. a person's body, his flesh

1. a person who is a nuisance

1. a person who is in a hurry

1. sick

1. person who shows mercy

1. humble

1. cousin
2. full blood cousin

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.

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.

1. to feel something, "nyulu nguwul-nguwulbu torch baran-baral", "He was feeling for his torch in the dark"

1. road, path, track, trail

1. young cassowary

1. pale, as from sickness

1. half-caste

1. chin
2. jaw

1. Moreton Bay fig tree

1. species of small bird

1. Queensland nut, ripe in July-October
2. yellow water snake

1. place name - in the China camp area

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"

1. flat

1. black bream

1. person with a bad leg or arm, lame, crippled.

1. upper jaw

1. not good at something

1. escort, to take a person somewhere, "ngayu jinkurr barrman kaminda", "I took younger sister to grandmother"

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"

1. stay, remain, is left, "jana bayanbaku dungan ngayu bawajin", "they all went home but I stayed"

1. black bean tree

1. flame, fire
2. fire, "baya wayu", light a fire
3. firewood, "nyulu baya mujan", "he collected firewood"

1. house, camp, shelter

1. pipe

1. fresh water perch

1. peewee, mud shark

1. premature child, "yinya ngawa bayin bajaku", "That baby is very premature"
2. very small child
3. child spirit

1. ignore, don't pay attention to

1. restless, always moving about

1. bite, "kayangka bikibiki baykan, kujinkuda", "the dog bit the pig and held on"

1. ache, pain, "ngayu dukal baykal", "my head aches"

1. ache, pain, "ngayu dukal baykal", "my head aches"

1. large mud clam

1. shin, ankle

1. breast
2. breast milk, "nyulu karrkay banbadi bibi nukanka", "The baby is crying, he wants to feed"

1. place name - Helenvale

1. place name - close to Ten Mile and upper reaches of the Daintree river

1. bank bird

1. to lick, "karrkayangka icecream cone bijan", "The child licked the icecream cone"

1. five corner nut, found in the scrub
2. place name, a hill near China Camp with lots of five corner nuts

1. dream

1. to dream, "ngayu kurriyala bijarrin", "I dream about a carpet snake"

1. tail

1. stern of a boat

1. species of tea tree

1. fishy smell or taste

1. a kind of grub used for bait
2. species of tree and its fruit. The fruit must be cooked first.

1. pig

1. to study something

1. fast, rapid, "bana-bila", "fast running water"
2. fast, rapid, "bangkarr bila", "a person in a hurry"

1. flat-tailed ray

1. homesick

1. blanket

1. grass used to make dilly bags

1. candle nut tree. The nuts are edible after roasting.

1. gecko

1. eyebrow or eyelash

1. small shark which comes around mangroves and in the river
2. black-tip shark

1. salt water crocodile

1. spoon bill bird

1. father's sister
2. aunty

1. father's sister
2. aunty

1. scrub wallaby

1. to know, "ngayu binal kari", "I don't know"
2. to know, "Ngayu binal-binalku bundanka", "I want to know"

1. teach, "teacherangka kaykay-kaykay binal-bungan-bungal", "The teacher is teaching children"

1. to go back to get something you left

1. remember

1. rudder, for steering

1. frill necked lizard

1. shoulder
2. fork in a tree or river

1. place name - top of divide btween the Daintree and Bloomfield watersheds

1. run someone down, gossip, "jana bama yindu binda-damal-damal", "They are running someone else down"
2. explain, describe

1. place name - Stoney crossing in the upper Daintree River

1. place name - along Daintree River

1. place name - upper Daintree River

1. any broad leaf

1. black snake

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

1. scarlet robin

1. honey eater bird

1. old man or men

1. white or light colored

1. white-haired man or woman

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.

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.

1. windbreak

1. grey March fly

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.

1. centipede

1. straw-necked ibis, which is the totem of the walarr moiety

1. bee eater, rainbow bird

1. yolk of the egg

1. paddle, oar. Often contracted to biruwybay or birubay

1. to row

1. leaf
2. lungs

1. parrot, parakeet, lorikeet

1. fingernail, toenail

1. natural death

1. kind of bad spirit
2. a bad, savage person
3. derogatory term for a white man

1. wife

1. mother in law
2. name of seprate language used to speak to in-laws

1. sitting with hands holding legs, "Nyulu biwurku bundanday", "He is sitting with his hands holding his legs"

1. purpoise, dugong, sea cow
2. iron

1. gristle, sinew, string, blood vessel (especially wallaby tail sinew)

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

1. nyungkal - turtle spear point
2. yalanji kurajan.

1. species of tree snake

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"

1. jumble, unimportant

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"

1. spring at Middle Camp

1. Butcher's hill

1. Plantation Creek area

1. Oaky Creek

1. Olbar's camp

1. Springvale

1. Shipton's Flat area, a junction of Grasstree and Bijan creeks

1. near China Camp

1. Helenvale (warrkin)

1. Ten mile area

1. near China Camp

1. near China Camp

1. near China Camp

1. China Camp

1. Thompson Creek Camp

1. Middle camp

1. skill in rocks

1. Stucky's Gap

1. coconut grove across from mill

1. Billygoat Creek

1. Romeo area

1. Roy Haach's old farm

1. Daintree (site of old bama camp)

1. Collin's Hill

1. Bailey's Creek

1. Harry Dick's place

1. Black Mountains (also the caves there)

1. see jalundurr list

1. top end of Watermelon Creek

1. Roaring Meg Falls

1. Tribulation

1. Bailey's Creek

1. near China Camp

1. Shipton's Flats

1. summit between Bloomfield and Rossville (sea view)

1. upper Watermelon Creek

1. Rattlesnake Point (story site)

1. Gold Hill

1. Wallaby Creek bridge

1. near China Camp

1. Wtermlon Creek

1. Wtermlon Creek

1. Annan River area (between the Annan and the Bloomfield turnoff)

1. Shpton's Flat area (near the fork of Grasstree Creek)

1. Jubilee

1. Mt. Peter Botte

1. Wayalla Plains (upper end of Plantation Creek)

1. Emojin Beach

1. Romeo area

1. rock in Bloomfield River

1. Grasstree (story site)

1. Wayalla Plains

1. present Mission site

1. Mt. Alexandra

1. Tourist camp

1. Mt. Poverty

1. Annan River

1. Mt. Yumalba, a montain new Mt. Poverty

1. Cebar Bar

1. Rattlesnake Point and Fritz Creek (story site)

1. Plantation Creek

1. north side of Bloomfield River mouth

1. south side of Bloomfield River mouth

1. south side of Bloomfield River mouth

1. tourist fishing camp

1. Kangkiji (north end)

1. Harry Dick's area

1. southwards

1. southwards (story site of wind)

1. cave (story site)

1. two jutting stones (snake story site)

1. southwards

1. southwards

1. Cowie Beach

1. Emogin Beach

1. Coconut grove near mouth of creek

1. lower end of Emogin (story site, big footprint)

1. Cape Tribulation

1. creek south of Tribulation

1. next ground south

1. kulngurbu

1. Bailey's Creek

1. Bailey's Creek

1. point off Snapper Island

1. Snapper Island

1. Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. stony crosing

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. upriver Daintree

1. junction to Gold Hill

1. upriver Daintree

1. top of divide

1. Bloomfield

1. larvae and eggs of any kind of bee

1. boys from the time they are babies - ngawa - to older boys - warru

1. black messenger bird, totem of both dabu and walarr moieties

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

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.

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.

1. brackish swamp water

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

1. fighting spear

1. deep water

1. brothers and sisters

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.

1. give
2. gave

1. give

1. trade

1. climb. "nyulu jukungu dakan", "he climbed the tree"
2. get into a truck or car, "nyulu truckmunbu dakan", "he got on the truck"

1. trocus shell

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"

1. lazy or in the way. "Yundu daki-daki, dungayda", "You are lazy, get out of my way"

1. arm, branch of a tree, wing

1. branches of a tree

1. cup
2. panninkin, only rarely used now.

1. water gum tree (nyungkul dialect). "yalanji-jinajina", "This wood is good for woomeras"

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.

1. hammer bird, totem of the walarr moiety

1. hungry

1. species of oak tree

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)"

1. freshwater sardine, red

1. species of tree, grows along beaches

1. bladder

1. hatch. "warngku 10-bala, kaykay-kaykay dalkay", "after 10 days the little ones hatch out"

1. to blow up, as to blow up a balloon
2. to break in little pieces, as a bottle

1. to beat up. "nyulu ngamungku karrkay dalkijin", "the mother beat up the child"

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"

1. archer fish (nyungkul dialect)
2. yalanji - mujarrka

1. flathad (also dukul-barangka)

1. well able to do something, courageous. (synonym - muna, burrkul-dandi)

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"

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"

1. twirl a fire drill

1. fight with spears

1. damper

1. shoes, boots, thongs, footwear

1. a spirit who kills people

1. a person who is possed with a spirit who kills, a murderer

1. king fish
2. flat head

1. chestnut horse

1. yellow freshwater eelfish

1. hard, tough
2. healthy, strong

1. King's Plains, a place

1. baggy, sloppy

1. bambo spear stick

1. fall

1. to drop something

1. boxwood tree, grows mainly in high places

1. kind of nut

1. small mud clam

1. narrow
2. too small

1. so small that other things/people are being forced/squeezed out

1. grass wallaby

1. deny relationship with someone

1. magpie

1. kingfish, trevally

1. star

1. straw hat

1. command form of give

1. clean, clear, bright

1. teapot

1. rainbow bird, honey eater

1. cane

1. seed
2. egg
3. bullet
4. tablets

1. eyeball

1. to put clothes on

1. say something bad about someone

1. mayfly, dragonfly

1. species of freshwater fish, like the jungle perch - bayi - but not around here. Found at Rossville and Shipton's Flats

1. willie wagtail

1. bird

1. young cassowary

1. bower bird

1. green pigeon

1. scrub bird, dark grey with white breast

1. mudlark (peewee)

1. bank bird

1. spoon bill

1. scarlet robin

1. species of honey eater

1. straw-necked ibis

1. rainbow lorikeet (parakeet)

1. bee eater, rainbow bird

1. black bird

1. straw-necked ibis

1. pheasant cookoo

1. frogmouth, mopoke

1. spirit bird

1. a type of bird called buyi

1. small brown kingfisher

1. black messenger bird

1. brown and white scrub bird

1. hammer bird

1. species of magpie

1. rainbow bird

1. willie wagtail

1. species of seagull

1. migratory bird

1. scrub turkey

1. golden whistler

1. white crane

1. friarbird

1. swift

1. scrub hen, jungle fowl

1. chicken hawk (goshawk)

1. night bird

1. messenger night bird

1. pheasant cuckoo

1. bronzewing dove

1. moomoo bird (owl)

1. seashore plover

1. satin bower bird

1. black cockatoo

1. species of crow

1. species of owl

1. species of hawk

1. black diver bird

1. stockwhip bird

1. blue mountain parakeet

1. brown pigeon

1. specis of dove

1. black cockatoo (nyungkul)

1. butcherbird

1. species of seagull

1. cassowary

1. native companion

1. species of magpie

1. stormbird

1. sentry bird

1. bronze wing pigeon

1. bush curlew

1. azure kingfisher

1. kidney bird

1. species of dove (ground pigeon)

1. english name unknown

1. duck

1. waterhen

1. torres strait island pigeon

1. species of crow

1. species of crow

1. red backed sea eagle

1. turkey, domestic

1. grey sea eagle

1. species of owl

1. forest kingfisher

1. fig parrot

1. magic to make people sick
2. Thompson Creek camp

1. the people living originally at Thompson Creek.

1. war spear, has a stingray barb

1. waterlilly (edible)

1. zig-zag above Thomas Creek (place name)

1. hictory tree (a type of tree)

1. corkwood pine; the tree from whicch witchetty comes

1. Middle camp (place name) also rock in river. (story site)

1. behind the house

1. hollow trunk of a tree

1. one who talks to the spirits of the dead

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.

1. a person who is able to summon up the dead

1. to roast on coals

1. middle, in between

1. base of a tree
2. end of something

1. squeeze, knead

1. male, man, boy

1. a type of tree

1. bell (english loan word)

1. part, part full, part way

1. sandfly

1. cream of tartar
2. fur
3. finecut tobacco
4. powder

1. fine, finely ground

1. smooth, as rock surface

1. tooth

1. a person who swears a lot, uses a lot of foul language

1. to grind one's teeth, to gnash one's teeth

1. dislike

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

1. migratory bird

1. scrub turkey

1. tea

1. coolamon
2. bark coffin or container for dead who were then placed in a cave

1. level or flat place

1. The Daintree side of Rocky Point (place name)

1. generic term for spirit
2. the spirit of a dead person

1. stone skull along path on top of the zig-zag (story site)

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

1. knock, clap

1. corroboree singing

1. blunt

1. bush, weeds, tangled growth

1. locust, large cicada found in mountains

1. kind of fruit (fig) that is edible after roasting

1. bent

1. head
2. bow of boat
3. boss, from English
4. head on a tape recorder

1. skull

1. stubborn

1. sorrow
2. to feel sleepy as if with a heavy head

1. really angry

1. flathead, species of fish.

1. broad-leafed bush that can be used as cover for a dirt oven, kurrma.

1. species of small lizard with big head

1. bush medicine

1. golden whistler

1. inside
2. mind

1. retarded

1. burnt patch of grass

1. white crane

1. umbrella palm
2. name of a place at Stucky's Gap

1. wide

1. reef

1. break, tear, rip

1. broke

1. any hard covering such as bark of a tree, crust of bread, shell of turtle

1. chest
2. hillside

1. a person facing south, or the slope of a hill facing south

1. wet

1. go. This is contracted to duway in fast speech.

1. huge, enormous

1. bad spirit who in form of a crocodile, covered with crocodile skin

1. a growth on the bottom of a foot

1. soda bicarb

1. coarse, rough

1. having lots of knobs, spikes, thorns, etc
2. coarse

1. islander

1. husband

1. tricky
2. clever

1. caterpillar, worm

1. species of tree and its edible fruit
2. spears made from this wood

1. fighting stick

1. a greedy person who has eaten all the food

1. white-tailed rat

1. toe

1. walk on tiptoe

1. puzzled

1. black palm
2. black palm spear

1. stick, sapling, post, walking stick, horn

1. adult
2. ready or big enough for eating, big

1. home of the ancestors
2. Maytown language for storm

1. Japanese (english loan word)

1. baldy gum tree

1. blank ant. Also their nest in rotten logs.

1. kick

1. scrub lizard

1. taboo

1. taboo ground

1. thunder out west, the start of all storms

1. missed, as missed hearing it
2. not strong enough

1. leg of a beast

1. bananas

1. sand goanna. Only old people are allowed to eat it.

1. pandanus tree (screw palm)
2. name of lower (bottom) camp in Ayton where there are lots of pandanus trees

1. sacred/taboo

1. to stand something up
2. bail up, put up an animal

1. friar bird (leather-head)

1. full

1. mouse
2. door, front

1. ahead, in front of, before

1. at the first, in the beginning

1. the first-born, first one

1. first

1. start a fire start to cook food

1. tree stump

1. spiderlily

1. back of neck, neck

1. stingy

1. headlong

1. angry

1. tough, strong

1. left hand

1. door, front

1. loose, loosely put together

1. jump, hop, skip
2. get out of a truck, car, boat or plane

1. edible sea creature with a shell like a porcupine with prickles which lives on the rocks by the sea. (you fry the meat)

1. always wanting to be high up - climbing trees

1. food taboo

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

1. female, woman

1. bad news

1. mudskipper

1. high bank

1. high reaches of the mountains

1. steep

1. pharynx

1. salmon

1. loosely, slack, gently, not strongly

1. species of poison nut tree, not edible for humans. Gum from this tree is not poisonous, used for making spears.

1. flat rock

1. smooth, level

1. take the rough off a piece of wood with a tool or a piece of glass
2. making a place level

1. to remove a hard or tough covering, e.g. a coconut

1. itch

1. itchy feeling

1. itchy

1. sharp

1. sea, large body of water

1. people belonging to the seaside

1. flood

1. white of egg

1. shoulder blade

1. newly cleared scrub

1. goose

1. hillside

1. two

1. four

1. grub. Mareeba dialect for mujurr

1. cork from bottle

1. a type of tree

1. they plural

1. stand
2. to come to a stop

1. to stop someone

1. blue quondong
2. blue spotted fantail ray

1. rice

1. to glue or stick something, using pitch or glue (yalanji only)

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

1. stick, also used for sticky honey

1. english: I'm very sticky, want to take a bath
   translation: Ngayu janbar, bajaku, janjinka.

1. stick to

1. to stick or glue something to something

1. cheeky

1. english: You people are cheeky
   translation: Yurra janbay-janbay

1. lower limb, leg

1. a food made from flour cooked in water, which is thick, not soupy

1. stone

1. bristling, ready to fight

1. swift (species of bird)

1. along upper reaches of Daintree River

1. sound of chewing

1. well cooked, done

1. nuisance, cheeky, trouble maker

1. wash, bathe, swim

1. to give someone a bath

1. quiet

1. hole in the ground

1. generic word for snake

1. a type of snake

1. poisonous snake (found in the Rossville-Shipton's Fault area)

1. short brown watersnake

1. fresh water snake

1. yellow water snake

1. red bellied black snake

1. light bellied black snake

1. black snake (bigger than the red bellied)

1. species of tree snake

1. whip snake

1. brown snake or taipan (no distinction)

1. rock python

1. zebra striped water snake

1. green tree snake

1. death adder

1. carpet snake, North Queensland python (no distinction)

1. species of fish, grunter

1. species of snake

1. rainbow serpent (mythological serpent)

1. species of snake

1. species of fish, grunter

1. wash away
2. drift, as things the drift by the tide

1. english: The flood washed the tree away
   translation: Jalungkarrda juku jarmbin
2. english: The boat is drifting
   translation: Yinya buwun jarmbil-jarmbil

1. more, farther

1. english: I am bigger than he is
   translation: Ngayu jarra yalbay nyungunku

1. high
2. full grown or mature

1. english: She climbed up high
   translation: Nyulu jarra-jarra dikan
2. english: They were grown up in the head (mind)
   translation: Jananga dukul jarra-jarramin

1. upper reaches of Daintree River Junction to Gold Hill

1. tree-climbing kangaroo

1. english: Nyungkul Yalanaji
   translation: murral

1. to lift or carry

1. thunder, thunderstorm, thunderheads
2. praying mantis
3. small species of stingray

1. someone who is angry and yelling at people, who loses his temper

1. above Thompson Creek Camp (place name) (story site)

1. fig tree and its fruit

1. species of some shelled sea creature
2. skin colour, a little lighter than usual but not light enough to be half-case

1. to be flat on one's stomach, prone

1. to delay, stay away

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)

1. an item, quartz, marble, bone - which is pulled out of a person's body by the witch doctor when sick

1. taro (english loan word)

1. trousers (english loan word)

1. scrub hen, also used to refer to the eggs and/or nest of scrub hen

1. argument, complaint

1. someone who is always arguing or complaining

1. to complain

1. generous, liberal

1. friend, relation

1. large ant bed

1. pleasant, nice to talk to

1. to become stuck, stick to

1. name for policeman (sergeant) (english loan word)

1. kangaroo rat

1. liver
2. insides, guts

1. to feel sorrow, grief, pity

1. realize something bad

1. turn around from stomach to back when lying down

1. repent, to go a different way, morally

1. glad

1. become startled

1. sweet, as sugarcane
2. feel really good and satisfied, as after a good meal

1. frightened

1. dog's urine

1. stomach

1. south and inland from the coast, south-west

1. species of large bat
2. place name - cave between Kangkaji and Kaway (story site). Also called Kurrbi.

1. paperbark tree bark torch

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)

1. grandchild (one's son's children)

1. name of old house across the river from the mill, now burned down

1. roof of house
2. the top of anything

1. place name. First ground upriver from the mouth of the Bloomfield River (south side)

1. red bream

1. whip snake

1. any food if, when cooked, is not hard but squishy (like sweet potatoes, or pumpkin)

1. tobacco leaf

1. stretch, to straighten

1. to stretch - as on awakening from sleep

1. grass

1. beeswax
2. smell
3. sweat

1. bad smell

1. sweat

1. vareity of edible fig and the tree

1. walk
2. walkabout

1. a slow walk

1. corkwood

1. grub found in antbed

1. near Spit Island, at the confluence of the Bloomfield River and Thompson Creek (place name)

1. headband made from seashells

1. boney salmon, tarpon

1. an animal that is a little fat

1. glossy surface

1. fire stick

1. to make fire with a fire stick

1. mountain lizard. This lizard taught people how to use the firestick.

1. grasshopper

1. foot

1. to go by foot, to walk

1. chicken hawk, goshawk

1. water gum tree; this tree is good timber for woomeras (yalanji dialect)

1. smooth rock

1. fast, quick, hurry.

1. wrist

1. spear with three prongs

1. to bite and leave a puncture mark, as a snake bite or some dog bites.

1. fish scale
2. dish

1. upper reaches of Roaring Meg River (place name)

1. silverfish
2. honey ant, the abdomen enlarges after eating

1. barb of spear

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.

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.

1. Billygoat Creek (place name)

1. spotted, as an animal

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.

1. body of a dead person when it is carried in the dubal (bark coffin)

1. younger sister, relationship term

1. ground lizard, larger than the blue-tongue lizard

1. new

1. nightbird

1. desire, craving

1. sky
2. heaven

1. fine day, cloudless sky

1. fine day, cloudless sky

1. angels, the sky-mob

1. coconut, the tree and the fruit

1. upper reaches of the Bloomfield River (place name)

1. spring

1. burnt, as food. Sometimes also the crust of bread.

1. to overcook, to burn the food

1. to taste, to upset someone, to stir him up
2. to start a fire
3. to start a motor

1. chips, small sticks to start a fire

1. big amount, lots

1. lonely, uninhabited, sad

1. meat with no fat, an animal in poor condition. (This kind of animal will not be eaten)

1. pubic hair on both man and woman

1. through, as through a gate.

1. the way you feel if someone talks bad about you

1. rust, rusty

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

1. small oyster

1. kingfisher, white tailed

1. defiance

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.

1. below Stony Crossing in Daintree River (place name)

1. along Daintree River (place name)

1. cuckoo pheasant (also called bulbululul)

1. somewhere up high between Romeo and Rossville (place name)

1. to pinch

1. experienced, expert, clever at something

1. tricking, pretending

1. ironwood tree. The bark is burned to control thunderstorms, as is kangka, kanunjul and nganjirr

1. buttocks, bum

1. back up, to sit down

1. back of ankle, back of heel
2. sugar

1. sand

1. whirlwind

1. sand whiting

1. chicken (english loan word)

1. tree, wood of any size from tree down to splinter

1. species of bloodwood

1. species of white gum

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. species of tree with edible cherry-like fruit

1. Moreton Bay fig

1. Queensland nut

1. species of tree with edible fruit

1. species of ti tree

1. ti tree (fruit must be cooked)

1. candlenut

1. species of fig (large edible)

1. species of with edible fruit with long finger-like seeds

1. species with edible fruit which must be leaved (in water)

1. species of tree with edible fruit like soursop but smaller

1. species of plum

1. lady apple

1. breadfruit

1. paperbark

1. tree (english name unknown)

1. watergum (also called Nyungkul)

1. species of oak

1. species which grows along beaches

1. boxwood

1. species of hickory

1. corkwood pine

1. umbrella palm

1. species with edible fruit

1. black palm

1. baldy gum

1. pandanus palm

1. nut tree

1. blue quondong tree

1. species of fig

1. species of fig

1. corkwood

1. watergum (yalanji)

1. species of tree

1. nut tree, poisonous fruit

1. coconut

1. ironwood

1. species with edible small green apple

1. species of scrub zemia

1. wild plum (poisonous without leaching)

1. wild cherry (edible fruit)

1. Leichardt tree

1. species of mangrove

1. species of mangrove

1. finger cherry

1. Malaeuca gum (woolybutt)

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. species of bloodwood

1. black cherry (edible fruit)

1. species of white gum

1. river oak or she oak

1. species of tree species of bloodwood

1. silky maple (yellow maple timber)

1. species of fig (edible)

1. species of palm

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. milka tree

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. Burdekin plum

1. species of mangrove

1. sea pine

1. fern tree

1. species of stringy bark

1. species of ti tree

1. zemia nut

1. species of ti tree

1. red cedar tree

1. species of ti tree

1. milbarkal (english name unknown)

1. sting tree

1. oilnut tree

1. pencil cedar

1. species with poisonous sap

1. species of mangrove

1. species of fig

1. species of tree (with edible fruit)

1. kaori pine

1. small tree with thorns on branches

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. species with edible fruit

1. species of hickory

1. flame tree

1. species with edible red seed

1. grass tree

1. species of tree (with edible fig)

1. coolibah tree

1. species with edible white seed

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. species of ti tree

1. species of tree (english name unknown)

1. messmate

1. cottontree

1. species of stringy bark

1. scrub tree

1. white wattle

1. black wattle (yellow flower)

1. species of palm

1. species of fig

1. species of wattle

1. bottle brush

1. dead finish (tree)

1. bronzewing dove. If the jukujuku sings out alone the people know that a stranger is coming or that someone may have died.

1. freshwater catfish (yalanji)

1. Aboriginal camp location along Daintree River

1. The Daintree people

1. freshwater minnow

1. lizard from dreamtime

1. species of tree and its fruit, a small edible green apple which becomes ripe in the wet season

1. slippery

1. to slip (in fast speech, this is contracted to julbarrin)

1. guts, abdominal contents, lining of abdomen

1. showoff, skiter, stubborn person, one who insists on doing what he wants

1. diarrhea

1. species of scrub zemia. Edible when ground and leaved with water

1. a grave

1. a belt of bark and hair wound around during mourning

1. where Haachs used to live (place name)

1. massage

1. sucker fish

1. grey kangaroo, a darker variety than mayarriji

1. transitive-verb

1. english: I rubbed the medicine on the sore
   translation: Ngayu medecine julngkan bajinga

1. tar from a tree used to make spears

1. kind of oyster, larger than juwarru

1. to wash something

1. to wash oneself

1. moomoo birds, night owl, night hawk

1. presently, later on

1. later on

1. little wallaby

1. mushroom

1. greedy

1. english: The baby is greedy for milk
   translation: Ngawa junbun bibika

1. The grass seeds that get stuck in clothes, which come during the wet season

1. small lizard. Common in leaves and grass before and durin wet season, with reddish markings on head

1. wild plum which is poisonous and must be leached before eating

1. pumice stone, carborundum stone

1. species of tree, bid round leaves, smooth bark

1. marsupial native cat

1. wild cherry tree and its fruit

1. billycan

1. to roll

1. end, tip

1. white ant eggs

1. the big hill at the east side of the mouth of the Bloomfield River. Collins Hill (place name)

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

1. something, usually of no value

1. things

1. truthful, straight

1. english: Nyulu junkali
   translation: He is truthful

1. back of heel and ankle

1. correct, straight, right

1. english: He is going straight/he is going right, honestly, not sinning
   translation: Nyulu junkayku dungay-dungay

1. strength

1. strong

1. earnestly, strongly

1. english: He talked earnestly
   translation: Nyulu junkurr-murubuku balkan

1. bristling, ready to fight
2. stand strongly, overcome

1. english: They want to fight
   translation: Jana junkurr-janay
2. english: He overcame (the temptation to) drink
   translation: Nyulu junkurr-janan kamu-kamuku

1. to fasten, join

1. to be joined together

1. english: The bananas are joined together
   translation: Mayi banana junumundajin

1. alive

1. a woman's dance

1. a dancing woman

1. eject

1. english: lay an egg
   translation: diburr juril
2. english: have a baby
   translation: ngawa juril

1. seashore plover

1. rusty

1. reddish color

1. shoots of plants

1. a lie, an untruth

1. to trick someone by lying by word or action

1. jurrilmal

1. satin bower bird

1. turn something, move something

1. change direction, turn oneself
2. repent

1. to push down, upset

1. to trip, as to trip over a stone

1. a weapon, instrument

1. english: He hit the man with his weapon
   translation: Nyulu jurrngkurrduku bama kunin

1. corner, elbow

1. right hand

1. expert, good shooter or hunter

1. moving along

1. to discontinue following something

1. to lead. Can also be used in the sense of leading astray

1. english: He led his friend wrong
   translation: Nyulu jawun juru-kulban buyunku

1. walk single file

1. catch up with. reach.

1. the next one behind

1. keep up (with him), stuck (with him) in the sense of moving along.

1. to go after something to catch it

1. coconut grove where Biddle's Mission used to be (across from mill)

1. area across the river from Middle Camp (place name)

1. repeatedly

1. english: I caught fish, one after the other
   translation: Ngayu kuyu jurungu-jurungu manin

1. spoon made in old time

1. repeatedly

1. english: The policeman beat him repeatedly
   translation: Bulimanangka nyungun jururr-jururr kunin

1. too long a time

1. english: We are ready to go walkabout, you are taking too long a time
   translation: Nganjin ready jilba dunganka, yundu juwaku bundanday

1. yam or digging stick

1. lethargic, as from sickness

1. mud oyster. It is like a barnacle, only it clings to rock and mangroves. Smaller and flatter that julul.

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

1. guts, abdominal contents (nyungkul)

1. however, but.

1. english: He said "It's good", but (it was a trick), it isn't good
   translation: Nyulu yalaman, "Yinya ngulkurr", juyuy, yinya kari ngulkarr.

1. rain

1. fresh water lily
2. flora and fauna belonging to the rain forest area

1. Bailey's Creek. Also kulngku.

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.

1. paper, book

1. armpit

species of cherry

1. small ant bed

1. Tributary Creek flowing into Thompson Creek

1. rotten, bad or rotten smell.

1. King's Plains swamp (place name)

1. rock python

1. striped water snake, known as the zebra snake

1. broken
2. without money

1. english: His arm is broken
   translation: Nyulu dakil kadaban (Straight over from the English idiom)
2. english: I'm broke
   translation: Ngayu kadaban

1. shell of turtle

1. black cockatoo (totem of the Dabu moiety) (Yalanji)

1. plains wallaby

1. come

1. sharp sound or crashing sound, as of an axe cutting wood, or a tree falling

1. clay pipe

1. snail, the small one around here at night

1. repeatedly

1. english: He's always eating our food
   translation: Nyulu nganjinanga mayi kajaka mabal

1. to tie

1. two things in one, as twins joined together, as in the darka nut or kajamarkay which has two nuts in one shell

1. english: If a woman eats the joined bananas, she will get two children (twins)
   translation: Kaki jalbungku kajamar binana nukal, nyulu kangkal jambul manil

1. clam shell, the giant clam

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

1. passionfruit (english loan word)

1. species of mangrove. A lo9ng thin fruit which must be soaked in water to make it edible.

1. sore, achey
2. bad tasting food, as sour milk or too strong curry
3. salt water, ocean water

1. english: I'm sore all over
   translation: Ngayu kakajirr
2. english: The river is salty, not fresh water
   translation: Wawubaja kaka yaral kari

1. species of mangrove with a short thin fruit which becomes edible by leaching out the poison

1. the green upper part of the black palm tree from which the dilly bag is made

1. large number

1. well, good at something

1. english: He sang well then
   translation: Nyulu kakawarri singmanda

1. if/when

1. english: When/if you go, close the gate
   translation: Kaki yundu dungay, gate nanda

1. lawyer cane top

1. try something to see if it will be okay

1. english: Try out the log (to see if it will hold you)
   translation: Yundu juku kala-babal

1. practise

1. weak

1. jump over

1. english: He jumped over (the mud) on the rocks
   translation: Nyulu kuljinga kala-jalaman yinduymbu

1. scrub goanna

1. far away, very long ways away

1. vine

1. mass of vines

1. for the lower end of Kangkaji Harry Dick's place (place name)

1. the mixture made from green ant larvae/pupae and eggs eaten for chest sickness and the common cold.

1. tall

1. tall man

1. tea leaves

1. finger cherry

1. english: If you eat the finger cherry, you'll get blind when you get to be an old woman
   translation: Yundu kalbariji nukal, yundu wulbumanmal, yundu miyil-burramalda

1. dead body

1. together because of mutual interest

1. english: They're going together (because they're intereted in each other)
   translation: Bulu kalbarrku dungay

1. hug, embrace

1. cypress pine pitch - poisonous

1. long

1. black crow

1. species of bee

1. discharge from the eye

1. kestral hawk, totem of dabu moiety. He taught the people to do the corroboreee.

1. vine with edible cherry

1. near Cape Tribulation (place name) (story site, big footprint)

1. outrigger canoe

1. to vomit

1. fishing spear, also generic term for spear

1. caves near Black mountains, also Black Mountains

1. a locust in the mountains which tells when to collect turkey eggs
2. the time to collect the eggs (event)

1. green tree snake

1. to tighten, to jam something in

1. english: He jammed his finger in the door
   translation: Nyulu mara kalkandin doorngu

1. stuck, welded or glued together. Also the name for sticky plaster.
2. hang on

1. english: You hang on to (your) work, don't pull out
   translation: yundu workmunbu kalkandijika, kari kulbajika

1. species of lizard 8-10 feet long which plays a part in one of the legends

1. undeveloped, green, unripe

1. english: The fruit is green, let it get ripe
   translation: Yinya mayi kalki, balu kulbulmaka

1. salty water, as in the sea or in a tidal river

1. woolly butt, Malaleuca gum

1. species of wild yam

1. night owl

1. upper reaches of Daintree River

1. black diver bird

1. mothers brother (relationship term)
2. great grandson (relationship term)

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

1. a person who is continually making trouble because of his or licentiousness

1. small mullet

1. upper reaches of Thompson Creek (place name)

1. garfish

1. left-handed person

1. vomit

1. yellow March fly

1. old woman. Now sometimes called wulbuman, which is an English loan word

1. low level, within reach

1. english: Get the food from the low (branch)
   translation: Mayi kambalmun mana

1. mud

1. cross-cousin (relationship term) (Children of my mother's brother or of my father's sister)

1. white clay
2. wet season

1. the liquid which drops from a corpse

1. flying fox
2. clothing

1. uncountable numbers

1. grandfather (relationship term) (father's father)
2. grandmother (relationship term) (mother's mother)

1. grandchild - daughter's child

1. strong drink, usually beer

1. inside

1. english: we are sitting inside the house
   translation: Ngana kananga bayanba bundanday

1. angry

1. english: I'm angry at you
   translation: Ngayu yununku kana-baykal

1. some of, the rest of

1. mistakenly

1. english: I was hit by the mistake by the child
   translation: Ngaykundu karrkay kanban kunijin

1. to block, put in the way of

1. maggot

1. belch, burp

1. english: The child finished eating, then the mother burped him
   translation: Nyulu karrkaymayi kunban ngamungku kandarrda dakay-manin

1. to take someone's place/job

1. chase

1. english: He chased the children from the garden
   translation: Nyulu kaykay-kaykay kangan gardenmun

1. wild grape, used for stomach disorders. Also used for the control of thunder storms, as is nganjirr and jujabala and kanunjul.

1. First bay south of Bloomfield River along coast

1. one's own child; son, daughter

1. low gap in mountain, mountain pass

1. cheek

1. mate, one who is with you so you will not be alone

1. hole

1. sound of a clap

1. right off, right through

1. english: Nyulu milka bikibiki kankuruku nyandan
   translation: He cut the pig's ear right off

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.

1. fin

1. freshwater catfish (nyungkul) (yalanji - julaji) Sometimes called walarrji, "with whiskers"

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.

1. english: to sing a curse song
   translation: kanyil badi

1. headwaters of Granite Creek, the Bloomfield side of Romeo (place name)

1. sneak around to see, reconnoiter

1. english: That man sneaked around to see if there was any meat
   translation: Nyulu bama karangan, nguba minyaji

1. stalk

1. english: The man stalked the wallaby
   translation: Nyulu dingkar karangajin kadaranda

1. alongside

1. english: I sat alongside the road
   translation: Nyulu karangkalba baralba bundan

1. grass
2. blanket to lie on, not to put over you
3. also used as year, i.e. kararr jambul "two years"

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

1. english: I didn't get any meat, the fish didn't bite at all
   translation: Ngayu minya kari manin, kuyungku kari bajaku baykan

1. not now

1. not yet

1. definitely not

1. not enough, not quite

1. none

1. rope, cord, string

1. king parrot

1. species of tree with leaves which are white underneath and when crushed are good for boils

1. reef or coral

1. edible snail

1. to catch, grab, touch, arrest

1. coral crushed for lime

1. small

1. small one, child, young one

1. children

1. red jumper ant. Some people have gotten sick and comited after being bitten by them.

1. green frog

1. blue mountain parakeet

1. a hole in something, as in a board or a dress, or a crack in a house

1. ghost crab, fiddler crab

1. drool

1. english: He is drooling
   translation: Nyulu karrul wanarri

1. Roaring Meg Falls area (story site)

1. black spotted dart

1. green scum
2. moss

1. near Watermelon Creek (place name)

1. crested pigeon

1. little ants, white or black

1. a shout, cooee, not far away

1. howl

1. honey bread of bees

1. species of bloodwood tree

1. second bay south of the Bloomfield River on the coast

1. expression of delight on the arrival of a visitor (spoken with rising intonation on the second syllable)

1. yam

1. species of tree and its fruit, a small edible black cherry, very sweet. Ripe in wet season.

1. dog

1. dogs

1. undeveloped, green, unripe
2. raw

1. english: Leave that fruit, it's still green
   translation: Yinya mayi bawa, kayalku
2. english: They eat raw meat
   translation: Jana minya kayalku nukanya

1. felt hat (literally the back of a dog)

1. to hook with a hook spear
2. to charm, fascinate

1. english: People hooked out crabs
   translation: Bamangka minya kiju kayin
2. english: The man charmed the girl
   translation: Dingkarangka yinya maral kayin

1. getting hooked
2. charm (idioom)

1. english: My clothes got hooked on a barbed wire fence
   translation: Ngayku kambi kayijin barber wirenga
2. english: The girl was charmed/fascinated by the man
   translation: Nyulu yinya maral kayijin dingkaranda

1. white gum

1. children (contraction of karrkay-karrkay)

1. sweep, remove, wipe
2. clean an animal - to remove the insides

1. english: Sweep the dirt
   translation: bubu kidal

1. runny tummy, diarrhea

1. moon
2. Roaring Meg Falls (site of moon story)

1. numb feeling
2. discoloured skin where skin is a little lighter in colour in places, usually from untreated ringworm

1. english: My leg was asleep
   translation: Ngayu ngarri kijar-kijarjimanijin

1. tickle

1. english: He is tickling the child
   translation: Nyulu karrkay kiji-kijiyal

1. mudcrab

1. saltwater catfish

1. mirror (english loan word from glass)

1. to lose, spill, waste

1. windbreak

1. alert, on guard (for yourself), keep an eye on someone, watch out

1. english: That man is angry at you. Watch out (for him)
   translation: Nyulu bama yununku kuliji. Yundu kilkiku bunday.

1. tiger shark

1. soft
2. weak, sick

1. easy crossing of water, water isn't rushing as during a floor

1. stick

1. english: I killed a snake with a stick
   translation: Ngayu jarba kunin kimilda

1. motion to get attention

1. english: You got his attention to show him
   translation: Yundu nyungun kinban milbinka

1. caterpillar

1. kind of a shocked feeling, get goose pimples, hair stands up

1. to sneeer at, mock, make someone feel ashamed

1. river oak, she oak. Type of pine along beach.

1. amusing, cute, said of a baby when admiring him

1. play (yalanji )

1. female, used only for baby girls

1. black ant

1. slow, quiet

1. secretly

1. dugong

1. forbid, block

1. forbidden

1. work

1. ringworm

1. brains
2. grease, marrow, drippings from animal fat

1. dull, stupid, insane, silly

1. cold

1. cold

1. name for wife

1. married man

1. big black freshwater eelfish

1. sound of whip

1. below the Roaring Meg Falls (place name)

1. below the Roaring Meg Falls (place name)

1. garfish, barracuda

1. black and red seeds which are threaded to make a wankarr (necklace)

1. smoke

1. tadpole

1. crown of head

1. question word (nyungkal) (yalanji - yala)

1. english: What about your older brother?
   translation: Kuda yaba?

1. behind, last

1. english: He is behind the house
   translation: Nyulu kudamundu bayanba

1. drag

1. barramundi (yalanji) (nyungkul - murrabal)

1. species of small stingless bee, and its honey. The nests are found in the ground.

1. slow (nyungkul only)

1. species of bloodwood tree

1. keep, hold, wait for.

1. guard something

1. daughter-in-law

1. brown and green pigeon

1. news
2. the talk or language of a place

1. chatterbox, someone who is continually talking

1. said of a child who has just learned to talk. Literally "has talk now" "news mouth"

1. to change your mind

1. straight talk

1. english: You go straighten him out / tell him straight
   translation: Yundu kuku yaralku daya nyungundu

1. dialect of the people of the ground around Maytown

1. used by speakers to refer to a dialect not their own

1. dialect of the coastal people, which includes the Bloomfield area

1. the talk of the people originally around Rossville and Shipton's Flats.

1. English

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)

1. the big spear used for spearing turtle, used as a harpoon

1. rat

1. a mother who loses a child through death

1. one who commits adultery

1. english: Don't commit adultery
   translation: Kari kulaymaka

1. brolga

1. pull, lift

1. carry

1. to slap someone's cheek

1. axe, originally a stone axe

1. white beech, silky maple, yellow maple timbers

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.

1. ripe

1. anger
2. poison
3. trouble

1. savage, always fighting

1. a person who is always fighting, always angry

1. tease, mock, make angry

1. jellyfish

1. sound made from drumming water. (This is done by percussion, the half-closed hand striking water.)

1. english: I drummed the water
   translation: Ngayu kuljan dudan bananga

1. pebbles, small stones
2. coins, money. This is going out of use.

1. short

1. Cape Tribilation (place name)

1. gecko, small house lizard

1. Bailey's Creek. Also Kaba-kada

1. heavy
2. pregnant

1. bandicoot

1. the coconut grove near the mouth of the Creek at Ngamujin Beach (place name)

1. short broken off pipe

1. dove, small grey

1. selfish

1. english: He didn't give any food because of selfishness
   translation: Nyulu mayi kari dajin, kulundu

1. three

1. handsaw

1. near China Camp (story of Amazon women)

1. trade wind, fair wind

1. well after being sick

1. english: I'm better now, after being sick
   translation: Ngayu kumbirman, bambaymun

1. urine

1. species of fig tree with edible fruit. The fruit looks like an eyeball, it is ripe in August - October.

1. mosquito

1. species of grass

1. black cockatoo (nyungkul) (yalanji - kadanji)

1. The autumn time of the year when so many flowers are in bloom.

1. english: It's flower time now
   translation: Nganka kumurrkudabi

1. fluorescence under water (salt water), as behind a boat in the water at night

1. to be joinded

1. to join something to something, i.e. to tie something to something else.

1. Shipton's Flat (place name)

1. middle of the night

1. finish

1. english: Today is break-up day; school's finished now
   translation: Nyiku break-up day, kunbayn yundu school

1. to finish something

1. a big day, celebration, as a dance, race meeting or corraborree

1. crescent perch

1. death adder

1. north along the coastl also used to refer to Cooktown

1. brown tree snake

1. pop-eyed, eyes open wide, eyes bulging out.

1. to hit
2. to kill

1. english: He hit the dog with a stick
   translation: Nyulu kaya jukubu kunin
2. english: He killed (shot) the pig with a gun
   translation: Nyulu bikibiki marrkinda kunin

1. to fight with fists or sticks, hitting each other

1. pimples

1. to call someone
2. to invite

1. english: Mother's calling you
   translation: Ngamungku yununin kunjan-kunjal
2. english: They'll invite you to the wedding
   translation: Jana yununin kunjal weddingba

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.

1. sneeze

1. to sneeze

1. fire

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

1. lame, cripple
2. mentally ill

1. shield

1. might be, maybe

1. english: People might talk about you
   translation: Bama kunka balkawanji yununku

1. periwinkle, flat shellfish with a smooth shell

1. mountain and river flowing from mountain. This mountain is where the wild dogs stay. (wild dog legend, Shiption's Flat-Jubilee area)

1. stare

1. fat in food or fatty meat

1. english: That soup is too fatty
   translation: Yinya milkul kunukunu

1. a sharp corner in the upper reaches of Daintree River (place name)

1. turtle spear point (yalanji) (nyungkul - biyul)

1. underwater

1. english: He swam under water
   translation: Nyulu kural warrin

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.

1. larva of case moth, edible. Found in green wood.

1. milk tree

1. magpie

1. small patch of scrub

1. butcherbird, stockwhip bird

1. a woman who has very recently given birth to a baby

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.

1. sack, bag

1. sink in mud or water

1. english: My legs sank down in the mud, can't pull them up again
   translation: Ngarri kurndan kambalkambalba. Can't kulbaji baja.

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.

1. kind of grub

1. seagull

1. cassowary

1. coconut grove across the river from the mill

1. plain turkey (native companion)

1. favorite

1. english: Dick's my favorite hunting partner
   translation: Dickie ngaykuku kurrbar jilbaka

1. a person having no friends, poor, no one to help

1. cave between Kaway and Kangkaji (story site)

1. top of head

1. magpie

1. octopus

1. storm bird
2. giant mythical bird
3. very tall person

1. mackeral sky

1. carpet snake, python

1. shortcut

1. go by a shortcut

1. a fight between two men over a woman

1. to look back, as on the trail

1. earth oven

1. larvae of green ants

1. species of cicada or locusts

1. part of something, a part

1. species of freshwater fish

1. morning star

1. complain

1. argue, tongue fight

1. english: They're arguing about it
   translation: Bula kurru-jindaway yinyaynka

1. sentry bird which warns of crocodiles along the banks of the river. Totem of both the dabu and walarr

1. crooked, wrong

1. cicatrice, tribal marks
2. wrinkles, as on forehead or on a newborn baby's side

1. a kind of tree

1. Burdekin plum

1. woman's affection/love/lust to a man
2. grub found in dry grass tree

1. a woman who is always falling in love

1. a woman who is in love with someone

1. species of mangrove with a long round seed

1. species of mangrove with a long round seed

1. bronze wing kookaburra

1. north and inland from the coast, north-west

1. whistle

1. to whistle

1. ghost/spirit

1. posterior (not a rude term)

1. fun

1. make fun of, tease in fun, make a joke

1. funny person, thing, or happening, joker

1. small conical shellfish, used for bait

1. war spear with quartz head

1. nasal mucus

1. bush curlew

1. fish

1. english: I'm going fishing
   translation: Ngayu kuyungu dungay

1. angelfish

1. spotted eagle ray

1. queenfish

1. black bream

1. jungle perch

1. flat tailed ray

1. black tip ray

1. black tip shark

1. giant herring

1. freshwater sardine

1. archerfish (nyungkul)

1. flathead

1. kingfish

1. yellow freshwater eel

1. trevally

1. species of fresh water perch

1. salmon

1. blue spotted fantail ray

1. grunter

1. red bream

1. boney salmon, ox eye herring

1. sand whiting

1. fresh water catfish (yalanji)

1. fresh water minnow

1. sucker fish

1. small mullet

1. fresh water catfish (nyungkul)

1. black spotted dart

1. salt water catfish

1. salt water catfish

1. tiger shark

1. big black fresh water eel

1. barracuda

1. barramundi

1. crescent perch

1. fresh water cod

1. species of garfish

1. small fresh water eel

1. knight fish

1. blue tailed mullet

1. stonefish

1. archerfish (yalanji)

1. mullet

1. shovelnose ray

1. moray eel

1. fresh water catfish

1. small spotted sting ray

1. diamond fish or devil ray

1. rock cod

1. toad fish

1. species of fresh water eel

1. shark

1. whale

1. manta ray (yalanji)

1. stingray

1. manta ray (nyungkul)

1. sawfish

1. the Aboriginal camp at Thompson Creek. (english loan word, from landing)

1. shows mild surprise, something like English 'oh'

1. swallow

1. war (aboriginals fighting with spears)

1. the turn off to Main Camp above the Zig-zag

1. swamp

1. scrub, jungle, rain forest

1. sea pine

1. boss (english loan word, from master)

1. idiom for bossy

1. english: He is too bossy
   translation: Nyulu majamal-majamal bajaku

1. to chew

1. lazy, no good for hunting or working, used to refer to both dogs and people

1. matches (english loan word)

1. oily or greasy

1. english: Your hair is too oily
   translation: Yunu mungka majin bajaku

1. onion plant, edible herb

1. muscles of calf on leg

1. fish net

1. streaky yellow ochre

1. yellow ochre

1. tar, or something black as tar or bitumen

1. towards

1. english: The boat was coming toward him
   translation: Buwun maku nyungundu kankadan

1. change directions so you don't meet someone

1. wait to be met

1. meet, as on the trail

1. meet, as on the trail

1. go to meet someone

1. follow to meet someone

1. send to meet someone

1. expert, good at

1. good carpenter

1. good singer

1. good diver

1. good fisherman

1. good driver

1. good hunter

1. good at it, (anything), clever

1. good rider

1. right side

1. the point between Kangkiji and Kaway. Jibul (bat) story is about this cave.

1. guilty

1. guilty

1. english: He's the one (who are the lollies)
   translation: Nyulu mala bajaku

1. admit, confess, tell the truth

1. english: He was sorry and owned up
   translation: Nyuly jiba-badin, mala-yirrkan

1. spider and spider web
2. life force. That which belongs to the body which is burned at a dead person's burning ceremony

1. creepy feeling

1. gooseflesh

1. species of fern

1. hairy or lumpy surface, pimples

1. leg between knee and thigh

1. species of small bat

1. a bad spirit, which goes through walls and comes around when a person has been killed by a dambunji

1. corroboree when someone dies

1. headband

1. fern tree

1. mother (english loan word)

1. two, joined together but not a pair. This is not used anymore except by old people.

1. married

1. force
2. give over to, turn over to
3. report something bad, to tell on, to gossip about
4. allow

1. english: He forced the child to go to school
   translation: Nyulu karrkay mambarrin schoolbu dunganka
2. english: He turned him over to the police
   translation: Nyulu nyungunin bulimananda mambarrin
3. english: You didn't let me go
   translation: Yundu nganya kari mambarrin dunganka

1. the command form of the verb "get"

1. barb of a spear

1. if you are a woman, younger brother's children. If you are a man, younger sister's children (relationship term)

1. moiety or subsection of the tribe

1. honeycomb. When your husband or child dies you put this into your hair

1. bait (any kind)

1. get

1. mountain

1. dandruff

1. Cedar Bay (place name)

1. mangrove (english loan word)

1. garfish

1. throat and front of neck

1. watch or guard

1. english: The policeman guarded him
   translation: Bulimanangka nyungun manubu-daman

1. deceive

1. english: The boss deceived him
   translation: Majangka nyungun manubu-wundin

1. squeamish, nauseated

1. visit

1. english: I want to visit you
   translation: Ngayu yunun manu-damanka

1. only, just

1. english: You buy only sugar, no lollies
   translation: Yundu manu sugar buyim-bunga, lolly kari

1. truth

1. believe

1. person's spirit

1. kind, merciful

1. wife

1. couple, husband and wife

1. where Main Roads camp was, near the summit of the Bloomfield-Helenvale Road (place name)

1. hand

1. one who takes things and doesn't put them back

1. to intend to steal something, but someone came so he had to leave it behind and couldn't take it

1. help. From English 'give a hand'

1. english: I'll give you a hand/help you'
   translation: Ngayu yunundu mara-dajil.

1. have a go (idiom)

1. clever with the bands, steal something sneak something

1. clumsy

1. rest, stop working

1. english: I stop working on Sunday
   translation: Ngayu Sundaynga mara-kunbay

1. thief

1. always busy, always working

1. crawl

1. swim

1. english: He was swimming in the water
   translation: Nyulu bananga maran-marajin

1. spider shell

1. young girl, unmarried girl

1. young girls

1. near Watermelon Creek (place name)

1. on Main Camp trail (place name) (story site)

1. cloth. Originally a sail made of plaited palm leaves.

1. stringy bark tree

1. Rattlesnake point and the ground around there, also the taboo place up Fritz Creek (story site)

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)

1. Aboriginal doctor

1. species of oyster

1. species of ti tree

1. zemia tree and the zemia nut which is roasted, ground and leaced to make flour
2. wing

1. to fly

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

1. english: The man was angry and throwing things around
   translation: Nyulu dingkar kuliji marra-warrin
2. english: The kids went down river (when a floor was running)
   translation: Jana kaykay-kaykay bada marra-warrin

1. species of ti tree

1. dugout canoe made of red cedar wood

1. dry

1. Islander

1. sour, bitter taste

1. prolonged, long time

1. settled

1. english: He went quickly, he didn't settle down
   translation: Nyulu jinbalku dungan, kari marriman

1. old people

1. species of mangrove, with apple-like seed only much bigger. The wood is hard and is good for making oars.

1. calm sea
2. salt pan, where salt water has been

1. edible oyster

1. gun

1. nickname for a stockman

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)

1. species of oyster

1. with nothing, without any, empty

1. english: I came with nothing, having nothing
   translation: Ngayu maru-mary kadan

1. bright red colour

1. species of bee

1. the vine of the lawyer cane. Also user to refer to braces.

1. a coarse grass used in the making of dilly bags

1. small variety of freshwater eel. Only old people were allowed to eat it.

1. Gold Hill (place name)

1. a species of clinging plant or vine

1. bottle

1. sub-species of grey kangaroo, lighter in colour than the "julmbanu"

1. vegetable food or fruit
2. generic term for food, whether vegetable or protein

1. knight fish, sometimes known as the port and light fish

1. wart

1. white woman. English loan from "Missus"

1. where the bridge is over Wallabay Creek (place name)

1. tear

1. pencil cedar. The skin of the seed is edible.

1. generic term for shell
2. nautilus shell
3. button

1. species of tree

1. woomera
2. used in mixed company when referring to a man's penis

1. along upper reaches of Daintree, between bubu Jiwulkal and Jangkarra

1. to show or tell something
2. introduce

1. english: She showed me some of the yam (wukay)
   translation: Nyulu ngaykundu mayi wukay milbin
2. english: Dick introced me to his mother
   translation: Dickingka nganya milbin ngamundu

1. stinging tree
2. jellyfish (because they also burn)

1. ear. Many idioms are compounded with "milka" as the base

1. remind, tempt, warn

1. remember

1. think about

1. think about

1. homesick, lonely, sad, worried

1. remember, recollect

1. hear

1. tired of so much noise

1. english: The kids are maing too much noise; I'm tired of it
   translation: Kaykay-kaykay nurra baka; ngayu milka-burray

1. think about

1. remember

1. english: The dead person remembered about his wife
   translation: Nyulu yarkin manyarranka milka-dalkan

1. remind

1. english: You remind me tomorrow about the monkey
   translation: Yundu nganya milka-dalkay-mana wunkun moneyka

1. sin, yield to temptation

1. english: The young men sinned and stole food from the shop
   translation: Jana warruwarru milka-daran milka-daran mayi ngakinka shopmunmun
2. english: The young man and girl did wrong in the bush
   translation: Bulu maral and warru milka-daran duduymbu

1. deaf
2. stubborn

1. can't sleep because of something on the mind

1. listen
2. obey

1. earache

1. sore ear

1. can't hear, deaf

1. contented

1. contented, peaceful

1. english: They have peace about that
   translation: Jana milka-marri yinyanka

1. sentence, as in court
2. remind

1. english: God will give them judgement
   translation: Godungku jananin milkangabal
2. english: I reminded you yesterday
   translation: Ngayu yunun yilayku milkangaban

1. remember

1. remind, also used for explain

recall, remember

1. forget
2. forgive

1. english: I forgot about the dog
   translation: Ngayu kayanka milka-wulan

1. small mullet

1. soup or stew

1. azure kingfisher

1. edible lawyer cane

1. tame, quiet, brace, not afraid of or shy of, confident.

1. english: That pig isn't afraid any more, is tame now
   translation: Nyulu bikibiki yinyilji karida, mindayda

1. dog flea

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)

1. the hook of the woomera that enters the end of the spear

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.

1. correct, as a correct marriage according to tribal laws

1. beautiful, nice, pretty

1. to keep/save food for someone

splash, that which comes out at an explosion or flames coming out in a big fire

1. english: They went real fast, the boat made a big splash (bow wave) (as it goes along fast)
   translation: Jana jinbalku dungan, buwunda bana minji-kangan
2. english: The fire has a lot of flames shooting up
   translation: Baya minijiji

1. tidy up, make neat, straighten out.

1. english: He is a good carpenter (does neat work)
   translation: Nyulu minjin-damal bayan

1. meat, eggs (protein food)
2. generic term for animal

1. scum on water
2. whale oil

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

1. pencil cedar. The fruit is the shape of a date and very sweet.

1. methylated spirits

1. rib

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.

1. kidney bird, totem of the dabu moiety

1. club, nullanulla

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.

1. blind

1. one who stares, looks hard, concentrates

1. giddy, dizzy

1. person who pretends he is not observing, but really does

1. look, watch

1. literate

1. blind

1. blind

1. pray (literally to close your eyes)

1. crosseye

1. species of mangrove. It has a poisonous sap which makes people blind.

1. smouldering log

1. motor car (english loan word)

1. lower back

1. the time just before daylight, pre-dawn

1. wound not yet healed
2. Watermelon Creek (place name)

1. rotten, easily broken, decayed wood or cloth

1. english: You should dry out your tent; it might get rotten
   translation: Yundu tent marral-bunga muja-mujamanji

1. collect, gather

1. english: Ngayu baya mujan
   translation: I gathered firewood

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.

1. archer fish (yalanji) (nyungkul - dalku)
2. spotted Jewfish, fresh and saltwater, in King's Plains rivers

1. name given to a person who has spear marks on him

1. witchetty grub found in rotting wood

1. relationship term, mother's older sister, father's older brother

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

1. back
2. small hawk

1. hunchback, bent back

1. english: The pregnant woman ate cassoway meat
   translation: Jalbungku kulngkuldu minya kurranji nukan, nyungu kangkal muku-dukumal

1. go backwards

1. lean oneself back

1. bend, stoop

1. species of tree and its edible fruit - becomes ripe in August-September.

1. old

1. brackish, just when tide comes up into river

1. blood

1. bleeding

1. menstruation

1. red colour (yalanji) (nyungkul - ngala ngala)

1. star (yalanji) (nyungkul - dawar)

1. the other side of the Annan River bridge toward Cooktown, where the old bridge is underneath, cement on top

1. ambitious

1. english: Do you feel ambitious?
   translation: Yundu bangkarrku mulka-warri?

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

1. english: They're fighting for no reason. Someone will have a baby.
   translation: Bula mulkal-mulkal; somebodyngka baby haveim-bungal

1. fetish
2. an article with supernatural powers

1. content, happy, good feeling inside

1. english: I watched them playing and I felt happy
   translation: Ngayu jananiin nyajin ngujurinya, ngayu mulkay-warrin

1. hornet

1. wave

1. along Daintree River

1. dove
2. wood used in a sacred corroboree

1. with magic

1. folded, closed

1. clenched fist, closed fingers

1. to throw a spear with a woomera

1. to insert, to place inside something, as to insert a part in an engine

1. proper, correct, careful, alert

1. english: The crocodile is lying there alert
   translation: Bilngkumu milka mumbarku wunany

1. quiet, brave, not afraid, confident (used to describe someone who asks for things, not being shy)
2. tame, as a tame pig

1. english: That man is not afraid of wild pigs
   translation: Yinya bama muna bajuku bibibikinka

1. Kaori pine tree

1. hair on man or animal

1. fur

1. Torres Strait Islander.

1. hairy, having a lot of hair

1. little tree with thorns on branches

1. spear to kill

1. english: They speared lots of different kinds of fish
   translation: Bula minya wali-yindu walu-yindu kalkabu mungkin

1. big clam shell

1. forehead (yalanji) (nyungkul - yiman)

1. stubborn

1. ground near fork of Grasstree Creek (Shipton's Flat area) (place name)

1. green ant

1. scorpion

1. scorpion

1. ground pigeon

1. dove

1. snake scale

1. sandfly

1. sandfly

1. species of tree. When this is in bloom it is time for minya jalan.

1. close fitting, tightly built, patched up

1. english: He built his house well
   translation: Nyulu bayan murbaku ngaran

1. red ochre

1. small paper wasp, yellow in colour with a bad sting. Its nest hangs in trees.

1. twist, stir

1. to turn around, to go around in circles (as when lost)

1. barramundi (yalanji) (nyungkul kudi)

1. stone fish

1. tree kangaroo (yalanji) (nyungkul - jarrabina)

1. dingo

1. fighting spear (shovelhead), made from black palm

1. scabies
2. species of lizard

1. scar, scab, initiation marks. Not an open wound

1. species of tree with edible fruit, two seeds one above the other, round like an apple. Ripe August - October

1. rhinoceros beetle

1. to break off twigs or small branches to harvest fruit from a tree

1. round
2. spoken of animals or plants folding up when interfered with, i.e. sensitive weed

1. cannot

1. english: I cannot climb up
   translation: Ngayu murruji dakal

1. to become ashamed, shy, bashful

1. to shame someone

1. scold, growl someone

1. argue

1. dingo

1. black beetle

1. lumpy

1. guilty

1. together

1. english: They sat all together
   translation: Jana muruku bundan

1. close together

1. to put things together

1. big toe

1. same time

1. english: We came the same time
   translation: Ngalin mururr-mururrku kadan

1. secretly, quietly
2. between Tribulation and Bailey's creek

1. english: That man is from Mossman, he's living secretly with his relation (so the Manager won't know)
   translation: Nyulu bama Mossmanmun, nyulu muwulku bundanday jawunyunji

1. the tableland the other side of Rossville (place name)

1. kind of bird

1. wind

1. english: The wind blows the rain
   translation: Muyarabu kaba bunjurril

1. hair of a pig

1. singeing the hair of the pig before cooking

1. small red ant

1. funny, creepy feeling, like you have when something is crawling on you, nervous, a special feeling against.

1. english: He's got a block against snakes (doesn't want to touch them, doesn't like them)
   translation: Nyulu muyul-muyul jarbanka

1. umbrella part of umbrella palm

1. south and east; south along the coast used in referring to Cairns or Brisbane

1. across, over, the other side of

1. species of bee

1. waddy club

1. lean

1. lean back

1. stick of flexible bamboo used in nose piercing

1. Jubilee (place name)

1. to close, shut, bury

1. wing

1. to fly

1. all

1. english: All the people came
   translation: Bama narmbaku kadan

1. knife (english loan word)

1. already

1. species of shallow water oyster found on rock

1. duck

1. seek, look for

1. to be looked for
2. to be lost

1. english: What are you looking for?
   translation: Yundu wanyurrinku nubin-nubiji?
2. english: The child went into the scrub and then got lost
   translation: Nyulu karrkay madjanga dungan, nubijinkuda

1. to lose

1. to eat, to drink

1. busty

1. english: That girl has big breasts
   translation: Nyulu yinya maral nulngkun

1. ashes
2. white pus

1. english: She cooked damper in the ashes
   translation: Nyulu damba wayjun nulungu
2. english: Pus is running from the sore
   translation: Nulu wanarri bajimun

1. sound of a motor, rattling noise

1. english: A truck is coming; I hear the motor
   translation: Truck kankaday, ngayu numburr nyajil

1. peep

1. english: The child is peeping through the window
   translation: Nyulu karrkay nurin-nuril windowburr

1. ancestral home out west from which the special corroborees have come

1. squid

1. english: The squid throws ink
   translation: Nyulu nuwingka ngumbu yilbal

1. soak, leach

1. a long time

1. a long time ago

1. for a long time

1. near Grasstree where footprints are (Ngalba-bulal legend)

1. hickory, good timber for woomeras

1. low tide

1. species of small crayfish, not eaten

1. mother's father (relationship term)

1. hide
2. steal

1. english: I hid the spear in the grass
   translation: Ngayu kalka ngakin jikanba
2. english: The old man stole the firewood
   translation: Wulmanangka baya ngakin

1. to hide from someone, to run away

1. species of yam
2. flame tree. The flowering of this tree signals the time when the scrub hen eggs are in season

1. red (yalanji) (nyungkul - mula-mula)

1. Father-in-law, son-in-law (relationship term)

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.

1. Mt. Peter Bottle (place name)

1. we two inclusive

1. we two exclusive

1. species of tree with edible red seed like an apple, ripe in August - October

1. bush fire

1. mullet

1. near Wyalla Plains

1. jumper ant

1. below Roaring Meg Falls (place name)

1. sand crab

1. refreshed, as after a swim. Can also mean healthy, lively, happy, glad, mentally alert

1. flames

1. english: The flames leap up from the fire
   translation: Ngaluri dakal bayamun

1. cliff, steep place

1. not seeing or noticing or recognising
2. absence

1. english: He's sitting not noticing
   translation: Nyulu ngambaku bu danday
2. english: They went into his house in his absence
   translation: Jana nyunguwunbu bayanba walan nyungungunbu ngambanga

1. to strong a taste, i.e. too sweet
2. grog, liquor

1. separate

1. to separate

1. Mother, mother's sisters, great grand-daughter (relationship term
2. below Meg Falls (place name)

1. the main part in things that go naturally together, as the rifle and bullets, or the tape player in cassette player and tapes

1. sissy, mama's baby

1. mother and daughter

1. Emogin Beach

1. dingo

1. we plural inclusive

1. mouth

1. nuisance, always telling someone to do something

1. carry a rumour

1. in one place

1. english: He's sitting quietly, (doesn't visit anyone or walk around)
   translation: Nyulu ngandayku bundanday

1. only, for just a little bit, just that

1. english: I came for just a little bit, have to get back to cook
   translation: Ngayu nganga kadan. Ngayu dungay baja mayika wayjul

1. just in case

1. english: Bring (your) gun, in case a pig comes
   translation: Marrkin wundi, nganganjirrka bikibiki kadanyamunku

1. disappointed

1. ignorant of something

1. english: The stranger doesn't know the road
   translation: Nyulu ngarrbal ngangkal-ngangkal baralka

1. to be surprised or unexpected

1. english: I found him here without expecting him
   translation: Ngayu nyungun ngangkan yaluy

1. surprise

1. english: You will soon be surprised when I show you something
   translation: Yundu juma ngangkay, ngayu yunundu junjuy milbil

1. echidna, porcupine

1. hiccups, hiccoughs

1. bark, as of a dog
2. sound of a dog barking

1. taste
2. voice of one's spirit left behind

1. bad taste

1. worm

1. father, father's brother (relationship term)

1. father and son

1. secret purpose, pretence

1. english: The child come to have some icecream (he didn't ask for it, just stayed to see if he would get some)
   translation: Nyulu karrkay nganjar kadan ice cream nukanka

1. hinting to find out something, not asking straight out

1. english: He came to find out where they got the grog from (didn't ask, just hinted to find out)
   translation: Nyulu nganjar-nganjar kadan, jana wanjamun kamukamu manin

1. no good, wilted as nganka nganjay, "wilted flowers"
2. bad smell. Methylated spirits is sometimes called nganjay

1. english: The food smells bad, don't eat it
   translation: Mayi nganjay kari nuka

1. we plural exclusive

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

1. area across from Simm's Wharf behind Mangrove Island. (place name)

1. flower, blossom

1. too quickly

1. english: He went too quickly, I didn't finish my letter
   translation: Nyulu ngankuku dungan ngayu letter kariku kunbay-manin

1. me, direct object of the verb

1. old time Aboriginal trial. The one on trial has spears thrown at him. If he is able to dodge them, he goes free.

1. english: That man is on trial
   translation: Nyulu yinya bama nganya-burra

1. reaction to hurt

1. english: Ouch! My hand
   translation: Nganya kayi mara

1. desert

1. get ready, be prepared

1. not good at anything

1. policeman

1. haze, mist

1. onion (english loan word)
2. sugar bag

1. root

1. upper Daintree River (place name)

1. build
2. spread

1. english: The carpenters are building a house
   translation: Jana carpenter-carpenterangka bayan ngaral-ngaral
2. english: They spread out a blanket for the children to sleep
   translation: Jana blanket ngaran kaykay-kaykay wunanka

1. water hen

1. shovelnose ray

1. splash

1. english: The kids are splashing in the water
   translation: Kaykay-kaykay ngarngkuljiku jan jil-janjil

1. also

1. english: Danny went to the store, Carol also went.
   translation: Danny storengy dungan, Carol ngarra dungan

1. species of shell fish, edible

1. fin

1. win over, beat
2. to pass

1. english: The Bloomfield team beat the rest
   translation: Bloomfield-warrangka jananin ngarra-yilbal
2. english: He passed me (while driving along)
   translation: Nyulu nganya ngarra-yilban

1. stranger

1. lower legs

1. near Romeo (place name)

1. obliging, easy to get along with because he does what you ask him

1. english: That person is easy to get along with in working (If you ask him to do anything, he does it quickly)
   translation: Nyulu bama ngarrku-ngarrku workku

1. shellbait

1. husky, or squeaky voice

1. infant, newborn baby

1. sea turtle

1. a shout from a long ways away

1. always coming for food

1. freshwater crocodile

1. name for spouse (used only by old people now)

1. my
2. for me, for my benefit

1. english: He got water for me
   translation: Nyulu bana manin ngayku

1. I went to the store

1. by myself

1. boundary or border

1. a cold, or any sickness of the lungs as bronchitis

1. english: He got a big sickenss (pneumonia)
   translation: Nyulu ngiki yalbay manin

1. have a cold or chest complaint

1. cough

1. to tease

1. english: Don't taste that dog (he'll) bite (you)
   translation: Yundu kaya kari nginga baykanji

1. We were going heard a grunt, a pig coming

1. to grunt

1. to grunt

1. grunt

1. english: That man is always grunting (in his sleep)
   translation: Nyulu bama nginja-baka

1. roar or growl like a dog

1. fidgety, restless, uneasy

1. South of Tribulation

1. beetle fully developed from mujurr (witchetty grub)

1. moray eel. Also used sometimes for sea snake
2. between kangkiji and Kaway (snake story site)

1. maybe, perhaps

1. english: Maybe he'll go, maybe not
   translation: Nyulu nguba dungay, nguba kari

1. the other side

1. across, over

1. Aboriginal law, the dreamtime stories anything to do with the dreamtime

1. a man or woman who is jealous-suspicious of his/her mate

1. a person who is always jealous, always suspicious of what his/her spouse is up to

1. freshwater turtle

1. fun

1. something or someone that is always funny/playful

1. funny

1. playing together

1. for fun or in fun, pretend

1. english: I pretend/play I'm a horse
   translation: Ngayu ngujungu yarraman

1. to play (yalanji) (nyungkul - kinkay)

1. a man calls his sister's daughters (ngujurr) (relationship term)

1. the asking for things

1. to beg, ask

1. english: Don't steal (it), just ask (for it)
   translation: Yundu kari wurrmay-bakamaka, ngukal-badiku

1. someone who is always asking things, beggar

1. ngulkurr

1. good
2. well, not sick
3. good in the moral sense

1. pretty, beautiful

1. english: Yinya nganka ngulkurrijin
   translation: That flower is beautiful

1. voice without words, also to hum a tune

1. seashell

1. Rossville

1. person with teeth missing

1. english: That man has teeth missing
   translation: Yinya dingkar ngumanji, dirra nyungu

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.

1. little spotted bandicoot

1. black, charcoal

1. species of snake

1. up above the Zigzag on way to Main Camp

1. wet

1. this side

1. dark. It is usually contracted to nguwulnguwul or to ngulngul in fast speech

1. kidneys

1. charcoal; hot coals or hot ashes

1. an open place (yalanji - nyungkul - warrmba)

1. to find

1. imagination, something you can't see but can picture in your mind

1. english: I imagined I got a knife
   translation: Ngayu ngunyangunya manin, naybu

1. to be in a hurry

1. dilly bag
2. the tree bark used to make into strips and weave fishing nets and dilly bags
3. spider web
4. placenta

1. too soon for others who aren't yet ready

1. english: You went to soon (they're not ready yet)
   translation: Yun du nguraku dungan

1. straighten, measure, aim.

1. english: Aim the gun
   translation: Marrkin ngurangurangaka
2. english: The carpenters got the house ready to build (leveled the foundations measured to see where the walls wouuld be etc)
   translation: Jana carpenter-carpenterangka bayan ngurangurangan

1. jealous, envious, because of another's possessions.

1. english: I'm jealous of that girl with a new dress
   translation: Ngayu yinya ngura-nyajin jalbu kambiji jirakalji

1. shadow, picture, statue, movie, cards, reflection in a mirror or smooth water

1. image

1. decorated butt of woomera

1. rope, also dilly bag made from rope

1. fog

1. english: I couldn't see, the heavy fog oblterated (the view)
   translation: Ngayu kari nyajin, ngurrbalda yalbaynja kanbin

cloud

1. mopoke, owl
2. edible fig and the tree
3. name of rock near Pearce's place, visible only at low tide (story site)

1. tree and its edible fruit, found only in deep scrub

1. Watermelon Creek

1. a woman's husband's younger brother, a man's wife's younger sister (relationship term)

1. visible

1. english: I saw him appear, a long ways off
   translation: Ngayu nyungun nguwimal nyajin, kala-kalbayku

1. invisible

1. english: The spirit was invisible
   translation: Nyulu dubu nguwimal kari

1. appear, show oneself

1. to kill as soon as the thing you kill is seen

1. plan to do, but unable to; to want something but can't get it.

1. sticky (as honey)

1. tongue

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"

1. to know without seeing or hearing

1. to know without seeing or hearing

1. to obey

1. the command form of nyajil

1. to boil

1. sulky

1. english: The child didn't go with them, so is sulky now
   translation: Nyulu karrkay jananji kari dungan, nyambaymanda

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.

1. to chop

1. english: He chopped firewood for me
   translation: Nyulu baya nyandan ngayku

1. to stop someone, to prevent, to stop a motor

1. pour
2. spill

1. english: Pour the tea into the pannikin
   translation: Tea nyangarrika pannikanba
2. english: He spilled the sugar on the ground
   translation: Nyulu sugar nyangarrilba bubungu

1. spill out

1. english: The water is coming out of the tap
   translation: Bana nyangarriji tapmunmun

1. aged, wrinkled, shrunken. Can refer to people, cloth or food, as an old wrinkled apple.

1. step on, tread on, pinch, squash

1. black kangaroo

1. snatch, grab

1. english: Snatch it quickly from his hand
   translation: Maramun jinbaldaku nyarma

1. waist

today, now

1. very soon

1. soon

1. until now

1. bump against something

1. grunt

1. to grunt

1. nuisance

1. corner of the eye

1. english: I saw him out of the corner of my eye
   translation: Ngayu nyungun nyinkibu nyajin

1. sook, crybaby

1. english: That is child is crying for nothing, he's a sook
   translation: Nyulu nyinyi bajaku

1. the big green ant that is eaten, comes in December - January

1. noise of crying, weeping, mourning.

1. english: That child is always crying
   translation: Nyulu karrkay nyirray-baka

1. to start crying

1. appendix

1. one

1. only once

1. english: I'll deliver it only once
   translation: Ngayu nyubun-birrku wundil

1. he, she, it

1. by himself/himself

1. boast, skite

1. to smell or taste

1. saliva, spittle

1. crave

1. english: I crab crab meat
   translation: Ngayu nyumba-buyun minyaka kijuku

1. to spit

1. leech
2. coolibah tree (messmate)

1. wax made by bees

1. cheek

1. confused, all mixed up

1. to return, go back

1. missed

1. english: He missed the ball
   translation: Nyulu nyundan ball

1. he, she, its

1. direct object him, her, it (Yalanji) (Nyungkul - nyungunyin)

1. to recognize; to see and know someone before he sees and knows you

1. extinguish, or to put a fire or light out

1. to poke out the tongue

1. noise, people noise
2. refers to last stages of labour

1. people making too much noise

1. to grind, sharpen

1. blame, accuse

1. doctor-man

1. thigh, hip

1. shade

1. Torres Strait Island pigeon

1. species of tree with edible white seed the size of an apple, ripe. August - October

1. magic instrument

1. english: Put the clothes on the magical instrument
   translation: Kambi wadalba yilba

1. gesture of affection, to pinch or pat a person's cheek, usually done to a baby

1. weather - rain or cold - entering

1. english: They hung a blanket up because the cold might come in
   translation: Jana blanket walngkan-daman buluruku wadinji

1. cyclone

1. wrong, incorrect
2. children of an incorrect marriage

1. wrong, wrongly

1. big yellow March fly
2. crow

1. stinging vine

1. prawn, lobster

1. wooden sword. The Port Douglas and rain forest people used them

1. light colour, white

1. half-caste (darker than barbi half-caste)

1. kookaburra

1. spreading branches of a tree

1. arm

1. to enter, to go into

1. english: He went into the house
   translation: Nyulu bayanba walan

1. to cause to enter, to put into

1. english: They lowered him down into the wall
   translation: Jana nyungunin bada wellba walay-manin

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

1. literally "with whiskers". Freshwater catfish are sometimes called this

1. being good at working or getting food, as a good hunter

1. up above mission site, bordering Wujal-wujal (place name)

1. near Grasstree where big footprints are (Ngalba-bulal story) (place name)

1. butterfly
2. small stingaray, spotted. Looks like a butterfly flying through the water
3. flying fish
4. species of mangrove - long round seed

1. recently bereaved, in mourning

1. downwards

1. lean or lay down

1. bend down

1. diamond fish, devil ray

1. English. This is not used very much anymore

1. english: Don't talk in English
   translation: Walkandumundu kari balka

1. black scrub goanna

1. right past

1. english: I went right past the house
   translation: Ngayu bayanba walkuku dungan

1. log

1. one who interferes to stop a fight. He holds the arms of a relative so he can't fight anymore

1. left

1. left-handed person

1. open
2. wake (someone) up
3. take clothes off

1. english: Don't wake up the baby
   translation: Ngawa kari walnga
2. english: He took off his shoes
   translation: Nyulu dambal walngan
3. english: Open the gate
   translation: Gate walnga

1. swamp

1. to hang
2. to float, as a log on the water

1. english: The clothes are hanging on the line
   translation: Kambi walngkal-walngkal lineba
2. english: The log is floating on the water
   translation: Juku walngkal-walngkal bananga

1. to hang up

1. english: The woman hung the clothes up on the line
   translation: Jabungku kambi walngkandaman lineba

1. to beg, to ask for something - Nyungkul

1. english: You ask your grandmother for food
   translation: Yundu Kami walngkurrika mayika
2. english: The dog barked at the pig
   translation: Kayangka walngkurrin minya bikibiki

1. face

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)

1. stubborn

1. to faint

1. sad

1. someone who is going around after sex everywhere, can't stay in one place

1. disappearing, becoming few

1. english: There aren't many crocodiles any more
   translation: Nyiku-nyiku bilngkumu walu karimanijinkuda

1. reconcile

1. english: I'm annoyed, too much noise
   translation: Ngayu walu-nukal, nyurra-baka

1. annoy

1. english: I'm annoyed, too much noise
   translation: Ngayu walu-nukal, nyurra-baka

1. stubborn

1. giddy, dizzy

1. look around

1. different

1. temple (body part)

1. provide, put out

1. explain, tell the news

1. share out, portion out

1. english: Share out the meat now
   translation: Minya bikibiki wambajikada

1. platypus

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.

1. fish hawk, brown hark, red-backed sea eagle. One of the sacred birds.

1. to get up, to move out of the way, to come out

1. hat

1. policeman (hat turned up)

1. fat

1. boomerang

1. a fruit bearing vine, found at Main Camp

1. choose; separate out, examine, then choose; count

1. up, upriver

1. above

1. small tree or wood goanna

1. where

1. where to

1. where from

1. species of ti tree, used for bark painting. Bark also used for roof of house

1. how, which, how many

1. english: How much water should I get?
   translation: Ngayu wanjarr bana manil?

1. which way

1. english: WHich way did you come?
   translation: Yundu wanjaburr kadan?

1. how

1. english: How did you come?
   translation: Yundu wanjarrku kadan?

1. when

1. overactive children

1. desire to accompany, but unable to

1. who (nyungkul) (yalanji - wanya)

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

1. upper reaches of Daintree River

1. hiccoughs

1. who (yalanji) (nyungkul - wanju)

1. what

1. why to

1. english: Why are you going?
   translation: Yundu wanyurrimbu dungay?

1. why, i.e. as cause of accident or sickness

1. english: Why are you going?
   translation: Yundu wanyurrimbu dungay?

1. with what (what (do you) use)

1. why

1. english: Why did he laugh?
   translation: Nyulu wanyurrinku yajarrijin?

1. king fish, Queensland groper, rock cod

1. stomach, belly

1. greedy person

1. pregnant

1. men's dance

1. empty box

1. sign, call, message which is sent by telepathy

1. to throw a message to another person by telepathy. A coal is taken from the fire and thrown into the dark.

1. yawn

1. to defy

1. species of tree, messmate or stringy bark

1. bailer shell used in the old time for a billy

1. doubt, not believe
2. to run someone down

1. english: The people don't believe the Pastor
   translation: Bamangka Pastor warmbil-warmbil

1. to lie defend oneself when accused

1. sleep
2. days

1. english: Three days ago I left
   translation: Ngayu warngku kulurkuda dungan

1. habitual sleeper, one who is always sleeping

1. sleepy

1. to sleep

1. to sleep heavily

1. species of wild yam

1. water spirit
2. name of mythical tribe of women in Kumarkaji story
3. upper reaches of the Thompson Creek (place name) (story site)

1. to purify (by smoking) the things of dead people because of spirits

1. axe
2. house made of grass, "beehive house"

1. to run, to fly

1. Sister-in-law or brother-in-law (actual) (relationship term)

1. to watch, to see where someone is going

1. can't come close because of relationship

1. Helenvale
2. English loan, from Watkins

1. type of tribal dance, corroboree

1. uncovered or exposed place, in the open

1. find (yalanji) (nyungkul - ngunnga - bungal)

1. to groan, suffer because of pain and/or sickness

1. young man

1. young men

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.

pacing the floor, thinking things over

1. the spirit of a man
2. breath

1. wish, want, need, love, like

1. to have a rest

1. worried, anxious, yearn

1. give something and take it back again

1. alone, unsociable

1. english: He wants to live alone
   translation: Nyulu wawu-daki bundanka

1. to go back all the time to the same place, as a good place to fish

1. courageous

1. satisfied, feel good about something

1. short-winded, gasping

1. anxious, dread, to fear consequences
2. the beating of one's heart

1. english: I am anxious about the child
   translation: Ngayu wawu-dudaji karrkayanka

1. spirit left behind in a tree whose voice (nganja) is singing out

1. a quiet person

1. to love very much, like very much

1. english: I love eating fish
   translation: Ngayu wawu jirray kuyu nukanka

1. used instead of a dead person's name

1. english: He is at the dead person's wharf
   translation: Nyulu bada wawu-juljalandamunbu wharfmunbu

1. hate

1. satisfied

1. to have a rest

1. agree

1. english: If you agree, we'll go
   translation: Yundu wawumal, ngali dungay

1. happy

1. to hold one's breath

1. willing, glad

1. to make happy, glad
2. promise

1. decide

1. english: I decided to go now
   translation: Ngayu wawurr-wawurrman dungankada

1. glad

1. thirsty
2. exhausted, tired

1. to breathe heavily, to sigh

1. wish, hope, usually without prospects of getting what you wish for

1. english: Hank is wishing for a new outboard motor
   translation: Hankangka wawu yungal-yungal motorka jirakalka

1. river

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

1. long wild yam

1. to lead

1. Wayalla Plains (place name)

1. hair belt

1. white person (waybul) (nyungkal yalanji)

1. white person (waybala) (nyungkal yalanji)

1. jumping around because he's happy
2. good dancer

1. to cook food
2. to burn something

1. to burn oneself

1. native cat

1. axe

1. slow, gently

1. red ochre

1. to swell up
2. to rise, as bread dough rising

1. english: My feet are swollen
   translation: Ngayu jina wubajin

1. species of yam

1. strong, hard

1. english: pulled with all our strength
   translation: junkurr wubandaku kulban

1. the other side of. Fast speech for ngubar-ngubar.

1. heart

1. strain the heart, as from lifting something heavy

1. hump, as on a Brahman bull

1. site of present mission and up to the waterfall (place name)

1. Wujal Wujal (place name)

1. blame because of your relationship to the guilty one, as if a child steals something, then the owner will blame the mother.

1. english: Don't steal - he'll blame me (because you are my child)
   translation: Nyulu nganya wujirrngal

1. sponge made from grass, used as a sop for eating honey or soup

1. darkness, night

1. to frighten by tricking

1. english: He scared me, fooled me (told me there was a snake)
   translation: Nyulu nganya wukan jarbaka

1. autumn

1. hairy yam
2. must be cooked, ground and leaved before eating

1. freshwater prawn, the big one with long legs

1. follow
2. weave
3. make a fence
4. imitate

1. english: The woman wove a dilly bag
   translation: Jalbungku balji wukurrin
2. english: The men put up the fence
   translation: Dingkar-dingkarangka fence wukurrin

1. flames

1. to die
2. to become unconcious

1. scar

1. old woman (english loan word)

1. bamboo spear stick

1. sacred dance of women at which the men sing but do not dance

1. soldier crab

1. forever, always

1. long time

1. english: He's been sleepy a long time
   translation: Nyulu wuljal-wujal warngkuji

1. long time ago

1. to empty out, bail out

1. english: They emptied out (the bee's nest) into the bucket
   translation: Bula mayi wunba wuljin bucketba

1. fig

1. old man (english loan word)
2. an old animal
3. husband

1. english: the old horse
   translation: wulman yarraman
2. english: Where is your husband?
   translation: Yunu wulman wanjabu?

1. to blow

1. song

1. to sing

1. stringy bark tree

1. ankle, shin

1. for nothing, for no reason

1. hot

1. to lie down
2. to sleep
3. to have

1. english: Do you have a teapot?
   translation: Yundu teapot wunay?

1. state of being

1. english: Are there any wallabies there?
   translation: Kadar yinyaymba wunay?

1. marry

1. english: The young man married the girl
   translation: Warrungku maral wunan

1. name of the English bee and its honey. Also used for honey bought in store

1. quiet, lethargic, half asleep, won't do anything, shy, doesn't talk. Opposite of ngalu-ngalu

1. bring, take

1. persuade

1. Mt Alexandra (place name)

1. to finish food up

1. english: You finish up that food
   translation: Yundu yinyay mayinga wunjajika

1. sun

1. sunrise

1. sunset

1. the hot season

1. the sun comes out from behind the cloud

1. midday

1. sun rise. The sun is coming up.

1. midday

1. cry of a woman in distress

1. english: She's swearing another woman (because she's wronged)
   translation: Nyulu wungkabu yukil yindi jalbu

1. point straight out from Bloomfield River (place name)

1. domestic turkey, not the scrub turkey

1. no personality, no style, not a pleasure to be with

1. tomorrow

1. day after tomorrow

1. morning

1. mimic

1. dragon fly

1. to dance, swing
2. to gamble

1. tip of tail or top of tree, but not point of hill

1. english: The bird is right up at the top
   translation: Dikal wurmbungu bajaku

1. humpy

1. whirlwind

1. navel
2. umbilical cord

1. mud wasp

1. shake

1. english: take his hand to shake hands
   translation: Wungar wurrangal wurrungu
2. english: Shake the mangoes (off the tree)
   translation: Mangku wurra-wurrangaka

1. fog, mist rising from the river

1. hornet, bumblebee. Nests in a stump or the ground

1. spotted, striped, speckled

1. crossways, lopsided

1. english: Don't sit on the edge of the boat, sit right
   translation: Yundu wurril kari bunday boatbu. Junkayku bunday.

1. hurt, ache

1. robber, thief

1. english: Don't steal
   translation: Kari wurrmaymaka

1. someone who is always stealing

1. small crab found on reef

1. species of shellfish

1. top

1. unable to see properly - if too far away, too dark, too small

1. english: He can't see him well, hes too far away
   translation: Nyulu wuyarr nbajaku nyajiji, kala-kalbay bajakunda

1. whip (english loan word)

1. to whip someone

1. english: He whipped the horse
   translation: Nyulu yarraman wuybubu kulban

1. jellyfish

1. species of tree found in the scrub

1. juice of meat

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.

1. one who is possessed by the wuyngkul spirit

1. seaweed

1. species of fish - Striped toby, also toadfish

1. exclamation of surprise, attention getter.

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.

1. younger brother

1. big

1. shark

1. to laugh

1. full (of food) (nyungkul) (yalanji - yanji)

to cut.

1. english: you cut the meat up
   translation: yundu minya kaka

to saw wood

1. english: I sawed the wood
   translation: Ngayu juku yakan sawmundu

1. what about?

1. english: What about your older brother?
   translation: Yala yaba?

1. like

1. english: he's like his father.
   translation: nyulu yala nyungu nganjan.

1. alright, okay

1. alike

1. english: they are just alike
   translation: bula yala-karrajiku

1. expressing astonishment to another's statement. (nyungkul - yukil)

1. english: is it true that you want to come?
   translation: yalakay yundu kadanka?

custom, like.

1. english: they are like that (this is their custom. That is the way they are.)
   translation: jana yalaku

1. to say or do

1. english: don't do that
   translation: kari yalamaka

1. also, in the same way

1. here, this.

1. english: he went from here
   translation: nyulu yalamun dungan

1. immeditely

1. english: Before the store closes, go immediately
   translation: Store nandajinjiku, yalanguwimburr dunday

1. this area or place

1. at this place (nyungkul) (yalanji - yaluy)

1. by this time

1. english: He missed the fish. By this time we should have been eating (it)
   translation: Byulu minya nyundan. Ngana yalaymbu mukanyakuda

1. in the meantime

1. english: I'll go before the rain comes
   translation: Ngayu yalaymburr dungay kabaka

1. at the same time, when

1. english: During the thunderstorm, he hid
   translation: Yala-yalaku jarramali kadan, nyulu ngakijin

1. this kind

1. english: Get this kind of food
   translation: Yundu yalayayku mayi mana

1. big

1. early morning (english loan word, from early)

1. limp

1. english: He's limping with sore on his feet
   translation: Nyulu yalkan-yalkan-yalkaji, jina bajiji

1. cripple

1. type of corroboree

1. shallow water

1. seashore, beach

1. wide

1. whale

1. sea turtle, poisonous if sacs aren't removed

1. manta ray (yalanji) (nyungkul - yidi)

1. white wattle

1. eagle hawk. Totem of all the Kuku-Yalanji people. It represents the country to which they belong

1. here, this place (yalanji) (nyungkul - yanyu)

1. house
2. opium

1. english: I am going home
   translation: Ngayu dungaykuda yambangaku

1. but, however

1. english: I shot a pig but he didn't fall down
   translation: Ngayu bikibiki kunin yamba nyulu kari daran

1. none

1. english: I don't have any food
   translation: Ngayu mayi yamba-kari

1. slow

1. household goods, collection of personal things

1. something used before, as scraps, rubbish, leftovers. Things that float up on the beach such as timber, usable things only.
2. ready

1. english: The grass is ready (cut) now, (you) gather (it up)
   translation: Jikan yandaykuda, mujada

1. get ready, prepare

1. english: You gut the crass (to get the grass ready), I'll throw it out later
   translation: Yundu jikan yanday-bunga ngayu juma yilbal

1. overhear

1. english: I overheard them
   translation: Ngayu jananin kuku yanday-nyajin

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

1. handkerchief (english loan word)

1. rustling noise, as the wind blowing through trees or grass

1. replete, full, satisfied after eating (yalanji) (nyungkul - yajin)

1. english: Have you eaten enough?
   translation: Yundu mayika yanjikuda?

1. overeating

1. to see and examine close up

1. this, here (nyungkul) (yalanji - yuluy, yanya)

1. fresh water (opposite of kalki)
2. right, not angry or cheeky
3. cool, not too hot

1. english: You talk in the right way (not cheeky - talk as you should in a court case)
   translation: Yundu kuku yaralku daya
2. english: He's not angry any more
   translation: Nyulu yaralmankuda

1. strain, sprain

1. english: He fell and sprained his ankle
   translation: Nyulu daran, wulu yarangkan

shiver, tremble, convulse

1. all the time, regularly, repeatedly, always

1. corpse

1. english: He murdered him
   translation: Nyulu nyungun yarkinkaku kunin

1. that way. This is always accompanied by a gesture.

1. horse

1. bee, the smallest bee in the bush

1. group of children

1. rainbow snake (mythical serpent)
2. deep water hole

1. wet

1. black wattle tree and its yellow flower

1. possum

1. species of palm tree

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.

1. scatter (like seeds)

1. thin, emaciated

1. strong, hard, swift

1. whisper

1. english: He told in a whisper
   translation: Nyulu yayngkarabu balkan

1. loya cane. Also walking stick made from the loya cane. The roots were used to make the walking stick.

1. Snapper island (place name)

1. between Kangkiji and Kaway (place name)

1. spotted manta ray (nyungkul) (yalanji - yalnganji)

1. to put

1. cricket

1. shell of egg
2. fish scales

1. little silver of something, as a silver of glass

1. to split - as wood

1. above the Stoney crossing in the Daintree River (place name)

1. to take clothes, shoes off (yalanji only)

1. hardened beeswax, hardened with ironwood root juice. The juice is extracted by heating and is used to make spears.

1. night owl

1. bank or river

1. didgeridoo

1. curse song

1. yesterday

1. day before yesterday

1. late afternoon, when the sun is in the west

1. to throw

1. in disorder and disarray

1. type of grasshopper

1. english: When the grasshopper sings, the wukay (type of yam) are ready
   translation: Yiljun badida wukayda

1. creek

1. forehead (nyungkul) (yalanji - munju)

1. bald headed

1. a round face, like an Islander

1. english: That man has a round face
   translation: Nyulu bama yimarr-yiman bajaku

1. come too close, knock down

1. english: He shouldn't come so close
   translation: Nyulu nganya kariyirrku yimba

1. message

1. with a message

1. english: He went with a message
   translation: Nyulu yimbalji dungay

1. lips

1. fish spear

1. forest kingfisher

1. another, other

1. knife spear

1. fear (jalunji)

1. frightened

1. english: I don't want to go through the night; (I'm) frightened
   translation: Ngayu wawu kari wujurrdurr dunganka

1. cicada

1. to grunt

1. fig parrot

1. ribs, side

1. lying on the side

1. dilly bag for holding remains

1. species of fig tree with edible fruit (longest black fruit which becomes rip in the wet)

1. that,there

1. then, next, after that

1. those

1. english: Those carpenters, they work down (there) now
   translation: Yinyarrin carpenter jana bada-badada workmal

1. there

1. fright, fear

1. afraid

1. to frighten

1. tide
2. fruit juice

1. waterfall

1. rainbow

1. drag, roll

1. everywhere
2. to talk "this way and that"

1. english: The sun shines everywhere
   translation: Wungarabu balbal bubu yiringkurr
2. english: You're talking this way and that (can't understand)
   translation: Yundu kuku yiringkurr bajaku balkaway

1. frog

1. taboo (yalanji) (nyungkul - jabul)

1. english: The taboo (thing) grabs you and holds you
   translation: Yirmbalda karrbal, yunun kujilkuda

1. taboo place

1. to scratch, to scape

1. to scratch yourself

1. running water

1. leak

1. english: My tank is leaking
   translation: Ngayku tank yirri-damal-damal

1. to shout, cry out

1. to rip open/apart

1. many-pronged fish spear

1. labour pains

1. english: When you have your labour pains, go to the hospital
   translation: Yundu yirrngaji, hospitalba dungayda

1. urine

1. to tickle

1. close

1. you, dual

1. sawfish

1. start something, like a motor

1. large frog, edible

1. true (nyungkul) (yalanji - yalakay)

1. english: Is it true that he came?
   translation: Yukil nyulu kadan

1. swear

1. big or thick

1. english: Bring all the meat home (don't cut it up and leave some)
   translation: Minya yukuku wundi

1. Annan River

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

1. board, plank. Contrast with kimil, "round stick"

1. large round oyster

1. any soft covering such as skin or vegetable or fruit peeling

1. Mt. Poverty.

1. poor physical condition, lean

1. welcome, to sing out to someone to welcome him
2. praise

1. english: The school children come from down south, all the people welcomed them
   translation: Jana school children nakamun kadarin, bamangka wubulduku jananin yulmbarrin

1. brag
2. skite

1. mountain near Mt. Poverty (place name)

1. wattle tree

1. bottle brush tree

1. you, singular

1. it's up to you (idiom)

1. by yourself

1. send
2. to allow to go
3. free from custody

1. english: Mother sent to me the store
   translation: Ngamungku nganya yungan storengu
2. english: He won't let me go
   translation: Nyulu nganya kari yungal
3. english: The judge freed him (sent him back home)
   translation: Judgeungku nyungun bayanbaku yungan
4. english: We hit the ball a long way
   translation: Nyulu ball kala-kalbay yungan

1. your, singular possessive
2. for you

1. english: Where is your dog?
   translation: Yunu kaya wanjabu
2. english: I got water for you
   translation: Ngayu bana manin yunu

1. you (object, Yalanji)

1. you (object, Nyungkul)

1. sea snake

1. swallow

1. you (plural)

1. scrape

1. suck down, as in quicksand or mud

1. english: The mud sucked the legs down
   translation: Kambal-kambalda ngarri yurru-janil-manin

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

1. to join together by means of something else, as nailing, sewing, etc.

1. english: The carpenter nailed the board on the house
   translation: Carperterangka yulal yurru-dudan bayanba

1. yes

1. exclamation of surprise and awe, usually prolonged and said in a breathy voice and level intonation

1. a father is called this when he loses a child through death