Muurrbay plans to conduct workshops around Bundjalung-Yugambeh country to help people use this online dictionary. It is a work in progress so your feedback is important to us. Please read the instructions by following the "more" button below.
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The Search parameters used are:
Search word: None
Search Type: Bundjalung
All dialects
Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
widal | grass | plant | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
widjabal | Widjabal | language | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
widjagang | yellow | colour | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
widjam | hot ; heat ; summer | time | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
widjang, wudjang, yihdjang | grass | plant | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
widjanggam, wiyanggam | long grass ; grass, long | plant | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
widjilima- | whistle | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
widjir | Ettrick clan name | people | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
wigah- | send in pursuit of | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
wihl | cinders | food | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
wihlu | you (singular, transitive subject) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
wihn juhm | bird species ('? smoke') | bird | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wihnyi | you (singular object, accusative) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
wihya | you (nominative) | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
wihya | Lismore clan name | people | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
wihya- | say ; tell ; speak (to) ; talk (to) | language | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
wihyabal | Wiyabal (people or dialect) | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
wihyang, wadjung(gan), wayun(g) | mother-in-law | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
wilahr | big | Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
wilahr nyugambil | big toe ; toe, big | body_part | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
wilarimbam | stars | natural_environment | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
wilgulga | apple tree, wild ; Woolgoolga | plant | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
wilima- | find out | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
winday | sea beach | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
windja | reply if a person is asked to do anything against his will | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
windji (winydji), yindji (yinydji) | somewhere ; where? | location | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
windjigahl, yindjigahl (nydj) | where after | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
windjigan | when | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
windjigu | where (to) | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
wing, guwin | possum, ringtail ; ringtail possum | animal | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
winwin | oak, white ; white oak | plant | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
winyam | crab, sand ; sand crab | fish | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
winyarga | blanket | artifact | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
winygung ba- | whistle | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
winygungbay | whistle, a ; whistling | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
wiranggiruh, wayrangiruh | Murwillumbah clan | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
wirgah- | steal | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
wirgah- (wihrgah- ?) | steal | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
wirwir | flea | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wiya | you (nominative) | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
wiya bureh, mudjuny (?) | spider, trapdoor ; trapdoor spider | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wiya ngering (bulayli(gan)) | you two | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
wiya-, windji- | give (to) | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
wiyabal | Wiyabal dialect | language | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wiyan | clever in supernatural matters | language | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wiyang | relation-in-law term | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
wiyang | wife's brother | people | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wiyang, jambang, yamburu | relation-in-law | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
wiyanggam | long grass | plant | All | [more] | |
wiyeh | you (singular, intransitive subject) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
wiyun | oriel (bird) | bird | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
wiyung | clever man ; medicine man ; witch doctor | language | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
wiyung, wuyung, wuyun | clever (person) | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] |
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Supported through the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages Support program and New Media program. Copyright © Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative
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