Bundjalung Dictionary

English: mussel, pipis, ugarie, eugarie
Bundjalung: yugir
Part of Speech: noun
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Category: fish
Comment: ugarie, eugarie, called "pippie"?? at Tweed River (Y:Hanln), also shell (Y:Sha:Culhm), cockle (Y:Watsn); probably shellfish; cf. place name Ukerebagh Island (yugirbah) (near Tweed Heads South) 'place of cockles'. Possibly yugari.
Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Sha:Culhm yugir shell; Y:Allen eugari mussel; Y:Watsn y

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