The following Wardaman words need to have some consistency so that they can be taught the spelling - we are also planning an educational DVD so this is vitally important - Many of the spellings from Francesca's Wardaman Vocabulary written in 1990 are different from more recent publications and different from Web sites for Wardaman and Bill Harney.
| binji |
stomach |
| bunjan |
white ochre |
| bulanin |
period |
| bulin bulin |
hawk |
| Bunnanggai ya |
clan country |
| Gandawal |
mother kangaroo |
| Gin.gina |
Lily's bush name |
| girribug (pronounced girribook) |
pheasant coucal |
| Gorondolmi |
Rainbow Snake from Dreamtime |
| gulbun |
Moon's seman |
| gulgan |
chicken hawk |
| gumbij |
clapsticks |
| Ingallari |
creek which runs to Aroona creek from near Walabuna site |
| Ingelledi |
same creek |
| Jabadee |
old woman from Jiggaigarn clan country |
| Jalijbung, the Dreaming place of Nimira |
Gandawag's six wives |
| Janama |
male skin for Mumendadguni males, right (straight) skin for Nawala |
| Jarrugja |
waterhole place where Gorondolmi laid her eggs |
| Jiggaigarn |
clan country |
| jirri |
pink iridescent clay |
| jorlborrman or jorbolman |
butcherbird |
| Malaga |
old man |
| Maralabena |
spiritual woman |
| marbun |
cut marks on skin another word for womens' cuts on skin |
| marrgi |
vulva or vagina |
| margarrlala |
white feather |
| milirri |
yamstick |
| Madburrongo (sounds like Mudburrongo) |
Dreamtime Creation Dog (thought to be thylacine) |
| Mudgiwun |
my daughter Pauline bush name |
| Mulurru |
old woman, JD has written Murlulu or Muloolu |
| Mumendadguni |
clan country |
| Muy Muy |
clan country |
| Myralala |
waterhole in Mumendadguni country where everyone camped for mordu |
| Nabajiji |
Queenie's 'bush name' |
| nabulu |
milk |
| Narwala |
female skin name |
| Nardi |
night sky spirit |
| nidbun |
cicarda |
| Nimirra |
female skin name |
| Numbin |
female skin |
| warrija |
crocodile |
| yabba |
circumcision |
| Yidugun |
mother-in-law |
| yijor |
sub incision |
| Yimidunni |
female skin from Nimira |
| Yimij |
male skin for Basil or from Yiwalari skin |
| Yimmima |
Lily's second mother or second wife of Jimmy Wurrguru |
| Yirrmillimin |
stranger people from Murin Batah country |
| Yiwalari |
Moon's skin and straight skin for Nimira |
| Yualanjarri |
mother-in-law of Moon, Gandawag or |
| Yungarri |
old man from Jiggaigarn clan country |
| yunumburrgu |
male kangaroo |
