A Key to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language: Being an Analysis of the Particles Used as Affixes, to Form the Various Modifications of the Verbs, Shewing the Essential Power, Abstract Roots, and Other Peculiarities of the Language Spoken by the Aborigines in the Vicinity of Hunter River, Lake Macquarie, Etc., New South Wales |
Common terms and phrases
Aborigines action affix agent aorist Arero Australian Australian Grammar bali bāng bāra barun belonging billiko Biraban birung Biyungbai bōn bon bang causation cause colony conjoined dual denoting dialects DIPTHONG emphatic English Father ia matou iana Indians Initiation inseparable verbal pronoun Islands kakilliko kakillin katān kauwul keawai wal Keawaran kore korien Kulla kunnun L. E. THRELKELD language literally LORD'S PRAYER M'Gill Makoro Malay manner means Metua Moroko morōn motion murrorōng negation ngali Ngatoa Ngatun ngearun ba ngeen ngikoumba ngikoung ngurrulliko noa Eloi nung nurun object participle particle personal pronoun Pirriwul ta noa pitul Polynesian postfixed present tense presentiality combined principal verb purpose purrai Rarotonga reduplication root Rurutu sacred Section sound South Wales speak spoken Sydney Tahiti Tahitian Tahitian language tetti thee thing thou unni unnoa verb verbal form Waita wakōl Wakōlla WINTA wiya wiyan wiyennun word yantin yarakai