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| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| -wehn | was ; became | All | [more] | ||
| weh, wih | you (singular, intransitive) | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| wehbar, waybar | fire ; firewood ; camp | food | All | [more] | |
| wehl | Saucepan, The ; Orion's belt constellation | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wehlu | you | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| wehlubal | Wehlubal (Baryulgil) dialect | language | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wehm | flying squirrel ; stingray | animal | All | [more] | |
| wehn | became ; was | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| wehn, wayan | hip | body_part | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wehn, wayan, waran | root of tree ; road ; hip ; pelvis | plant | All | [more] | |
| wehna- | lie ; recline ; sit | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| wen-, wen.ga-, wi- | become ; be ; get ; have | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| werwa- | be (Gd) ; become (Gd) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| All | [more] | ||||
| -(y)agan | after (running after?) | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| -ah | in ; at ; on | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -an.ga-, -angga- | be ; become | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -ay | subjunctive? | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -ba | go | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | intensity of action, greater | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | make, to ; cause to | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | place of | location | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| -ba | please | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | to ; towards | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bal | those who say | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| -banggil | very ; most ; superlative | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bany | father | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| -banyi | from ; of (as in 'afraid of') | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bara | from ; person from | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| -bara | derivational affix | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bari | person from a named place ; born at, inhabitant of; added to place names | people | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| -barnu | from | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| -baya | with ; together with | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| -beh | then | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| -bi | subjunctive enclitic ; verbal noun enclitic | artifact | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| -bi | in ; at ; on | location | All | [more] | |
| -bihny | your own | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -bihny | place where something is or happens | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -bil | intensive descriptive | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| -bil, -ngbil | plural for all trees ; tree plural | plant | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] |
