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THE EUAHLAYI TRIBE

Boorool, big, great, many.

Birrahgnooloo, woman's name meaning hatchet-faced.

Booloowah, two emus.

Bibbilah, belonging to the Bibbil country.

Barahgurree, girl's name; a kind of lizard.

Bogginbinnia, girl's name; a kind of lizard.

Billai, crimson-wing parrot.

Birriebunger, small diver-bird

Burrahwahn, a rat now extinct.

Bralgah, bird; native companion.

Bean, Myall tree; a weeping acacia.

Beebuyer, yellow flowering broom, shrub.

Beeleer, black cockatoo.

Bibbee, woodpecker,

Bullah Bullah, butterfly.

Beeweerh, bony bream.

Buggila, leopard wood.

Bunbundoolooey, a little brown bird.

Brumboorah, boorah song.

Boorahbayyi, boy undergoing initiation.

Boodther, a meeting where presents are exchanged.

Berai Berai, the boys; Orion's sword and belt.

Beereeun, lizard.

Birrahmulgerhyerh, devils with poison-sticks.

Byjerh, expression of surprise.

Buckandee, native cat.


Coolabah, flooded box; Eucalyptus.

Curreequinquin, butcher-bird; piping shrike.

Cumbee, stone tomahawk.

Cocklerina, a rose and yellow crested cockatoo. (Major Mitchell.)

Carbeen, an Eucalyptus.

Collarene, Coolabah blossom.

Cûngil, ugly, nasty, bad.

Cunnumbeillee, woman's name meaning pigweed root.


Dhé, hereditary totem.

Dheal, sacred tree.

Dayoorl, grinding-stone.

Doonburr, grass seed.

Dheelgoolee, a bird-trapping place.

Dardurr, a camp shelter of bark.

Dheala, girl's name.

Dayadee, half-brother.

Dadadee, grandfather on mother's side.

Doore-oothai, a lover.

Dillahga, an elderly man of same totem as person speaking of or to him.

Dooloomai, thunder.

Dillee, treasure bag.

Deenyi, ironbark.

Doowee, any one's dream-spirit.

Dinahgurrerhlowah, death-dealing stone.

Dumerh Dumerh, smallpox.

Dumerh, brown pigeon.

Doolungaiyah, sandhill rat, bilber.

Douyougurrah, earthworms.

Deereeree, willy wagtail.

Durrooee, spirit-bird.

Dinewan, emu.

Dunnia, wattle tree.

Deenbi, diver.

Deegeenboyah, soldier-bird.

Dayahminyah, small carpet snake.

Douyouie, ants.

Dulibah, bald.

Dulleerin, a lizard.

Douran Douran, north wind.

Dunnee Bunbun, a very large green parrot.

Dibbee, sort of sandpiper.

Durrahgeegin, green frog.

Dooroongul, hairy caterpillar.

Durramunga, little boorah.

Doolooboorah, boorah message-stick.

Dulloorah, tree manna-bringing birds.


Eerin, little night owl.

Euloowayi, long-nailed devils.

Euahlayi, name of the Narran tribe.

Euloowirree, rainbow.

Eeramooun, uninitiated boy.

Eleanbah wundah, spirits of the lower world.