Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia

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2088

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A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia; George Fletcher Moore

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1842

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Spirit-Person Narratives

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Boylya

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Early Colonial

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Western Australia (WA): B

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WA

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teeth on edge. KiLLAL, subst, — Formica maxima ; lion-ant. K'lLLiN, subst, — The pudenda. KiLUNG, subst, — (K.G.S.) The fresh-water tortoise. K-NUDE, subst, — A species of casuarina. KobbXlXk, subst Pregnancy. KobbXlo, subst, — Stomach ; belly. Kobbalobakkan.tugow, verb — To want. (See Gurdu,) To hunger for a thing. Kobbalo-bu-tirgXdXk, subst, — A sorcerer. Boylya Gradak. Compounded of Kobbalo, stomach ; Buyi, a stone ; and Gadak, possessing. Seemingly answering to our stony ^ or hard-hearted person. KoBART, subst, — A species of spear-wood found in the swamps. KoBAT KobatXnXn, verb— To decoy. Compounded of Kue, the sound they.

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