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110 AN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE. SELECTIONS FXOU THE SCRIPTURES. 111
Secfion 11.
Kiuwara. ' anger'; c$ bukka, ' wrath, rage, fury.'
K a t an,_' is,' the present tense of kakilliko, 'to be' in a state.
P uCr r e a g7day.'
Parnkai, ' evil, bad'; opposed to murrar ag, ' g ~d.'
Par ak ai kinko, ' on account of the wicked.'
Section 12.
earun, ' US,' the objective case of g&en, ' me.'
ma, ' ma+,' the aorist of the verb 'to make'; hence uinull iko,
'to make, create, do '; 'to cause power,to effect.' Inthis sentence
the use of the two forms of the pronoun, 'he,' is seen ; niuwoa
ta, 'it is he,' emphatically ; noa, he,' verbally; gearun,
' US '; uma, ' made '; the whole means, ' it is he, he us made.'
Keawai -wal, a universal, absolute denial.
Kanwal, 'great'; kauwal-kauwal, 'vg__geat.' The cornparison
is drawn always by what the one is and the other ia
not; hence, kau\~al kan noa, 'he is great'; Eloi ta, 'God
is'; ~var8a ta gearunba bulbul, 'little it is our hearts.'
TVarBa, ' little,' in size.
Bulb ul, ' heart' of animals and man; not ' heart ' of oak or the
like.
Gurran, 'knows'; the present tense of gurrulliko, 'to
to perceive by the ear, to understand,' but not in any
sense ; to know a person by sight is gi-millik o ; to
a thiug by sight, na-killiko ; to know carnally, boi-bul
and to know by the touch, nu-mulliko.
Minnug, as a question, means 'what thing' is the object? The
reduplication, with the particle bo affixed, means ' everytlling
itself' as an object.
ect; this is expressed
h the negative kea-
Cipu, an adopted word, from the English, 'sheep.'
Takilli, the act of 'eating'; hence takilliko, 'to be in the act
of eating'; 'to eat.'
GB 1, the inseparable verbal particle denoting place, 'the place of ';
takillig81, 'the pasture, the eating-place, the feeding-place ';
Section 13. e-
Kaiyu, 'able, powerful, mighty'; kaiyu-kan, 'one who is
able'; noa, '_he'; Eloi ta, 'Godis'; yanti-ko, 'for all';
minnug-bo minnug-bo-ko, 'for every thing.'
Section 6.
thou.' 'it is thou who '; ta, 'it is.'
nomiilative pronoun,
WINTA ~.-PAET 3.
8scfion 2.
Pan tin kob a, ' of all '; bob a is the genitive particle used with
things, while -6mba is used with person ; as, gan-hmba?
'whose'? 'belongin4 to what person'? minarig koba? 'belonging
to what thing '? makoro koba, ' belonging to the fish'
emmo-hmba, 'mine', 'belol~ging to me'; Thr elkeld-bmb
' belonging to Threlkeld.'
Section 4.
e visible Heavens, the sky, the space above
e land, the ground.'
all belonging to these '; y ant in, ' all,'
tic demonstrative pronoun gali, ' this';
se'; yantin gala, 'all those.'
G u r rull a, imperative, ' know, hearken, listen.'
Nura, the personal plural ilominative pronoun, 'ye '; the objective
case is nur un, ' you'; nurun ba, ' belonging to you.'
Panti, ' thus, in this manner.'
Section 8.
ert po-irer,' exclusire
Kiumo a, the emphatic separable personal pronoun, 'he,' 'it is h~
the inseparable verbal pronoun is noa, ' he '; the inseparabl
verbal pronoun in the objecti\ e is bon, ' him ', and the separabl
obliquecaseis gikoug, 'him'; gikoug ko means 'for him
gik ou g k ai, ' on account of him.'
to put a thing any-