-aal: self

-al: at

ala: listen

alayiny: listening

alidja: that

alidjap: that place

alikwadja: beginning

alikwadjakang: from the beginning

alimarn: as

aliny: listening

alo: to listen

anbagbat-yan: lost

anbangbat: lose

anbangbat-yan: lost

-ang: of [-ang after a consonant (eg Jacob-ang, Adam-ang), -kang after a vowel sound (eg Joshua-kang, Judah-kang)]

-ap: place

arbiny: become

arda: only, alone

arda nginda: until (only when)

arda yeyi: only now

baal: he

baalaal: himself

baalap: they

baalapaal: themselves

baalap-mokiny: like them

baalroo: his own

babanginy: lightning

babin: friend (ngooldjara also friend is used only for Jesus’ disciples in this book. It may mean brothers-in-law in some Nyoongar dialects)

babina: friends

babin-abini: to make/become friends

baka: touch (also maar-barrang=hold)

bakadjiny: fighting

bakadjo: to fight

bakatj: fight

bakatja: fight

bakkan: hurt, bite, harm, pain or suffer

bakkan wara: suffering, great pain

bakkanan: taste

bakkan-djil: great pain

bakkan-wara: suffer

baladjan: attack

balaparoo: their own

balarany: storm, gale

balaritj: cover

Balayi!: watch out!

balbayit: foolish

balbayit-waangkiny: silly talking

balingar: climb

balladja: attack

ballar: secretly, hidden

ballaridja: hide

ballar-yan: hidden, secret

bama: beat, hit or strike

bama-bama: beat

bama-bamo: to beat

bamakanrin: knock down

baminy: hitting or beating

bam-kadong: cut

banan: hole

banarak: property, possessions

banaraka: possessions, property, wealth

bandak: out, outside

bandak-barrang: bring out

bandak-koorl: go out

bandak-koorliny: going out

bandak-kwarda: throw out

bandak-yaaka: stand outside

bandak-yekan: drive out

banditjiny: shining, glorious

bandjat: bright, shiny

bandjatiny: shining (or glory)

bando: really

bandojil: certainly

bangal: buy, trade, exchange

bangal-barrang: buy

bangal-yanga: borrow, exchange, sell

bangka: part, some, half, chapter, piece

bangka maya-maya: room, (‘part of house’)

bangka-bwora: inside part

banidja: use

banitj: use

banitja: use

banitja-birt: without use

banya: sweat

banyadak: heavy (‘sweat-making’)

bardang: jump

bardip: proverb, story, parable (can mean ‘lie’ but only in the sense of ‘tall stories’, or ‘telling stories’ about someone)

bardip-karni: true story

barnak: in public

barnan: clean

barnang: sweep

barr: rough

barra-barra: heal

barra-barra-yan: healed

barrang: bring, hold

barrang mereny: got bread

barrang-ballar: close

barrang-bida: shut the door

barrang-djakan: break down

barrang-djinang: show, reveal (‘bring see’) (‘hold see’)

barrang-dwangka: remember (ear-hold)

barrang-dwangkak: to remember

barranginy: getting, taking

barranginy-ngandabat: salvation

barrang-ngandabat: save, bring life (‘bring life or hold life’)

barrang-yalgawa: keep

barrang-yalgawal: keep

barrang-yan: taken

barrang-yira: raise

barrit: cheat, deceive

barritiny: deceiving

bayinya: if

bedik-bedik: gentle, quietly, rest

bella: excellent

benang: tomorrow

bibi: breast, milk

bida: gate, door

bidibaba: tired

bidiya: paths

bidjar: sleep

bidjara: asleep, sleeping

bilang: push

billan: lift

bilya: river

bilyan: untie, take off

bilyan-yan: untied

bilyar: empty

bilyar-yan: emptied

binari: light

-bini: become, get

biny: become, get

-biny: become

birdiyar: boss

Birdiyar: Lord

birdiyar djonany-karinyang: judge, boss of the trial

Birdiyar mammarapang bakadjiny: boss of the soldiers

Birdiyar Yakina-Kooranyi: High Priests (‘Boss Priests’)

birdiyara: bosses (Capital B, Lord)

Birdiyara Yakina-Kooranyi: Chief Priests

Birdiyara Yakina-Kooranyiyang: Chief Priests

Birdiyarang–Mereny: The Lord’s Meal/Supper

birdiyaritj: rule

Birdiyar-Yira Yakina-Kooranyiyang: High Priest

birok: year, summer

biroka: years (‘summers’)

biroka kadak: years old (summers had)

birrba: a sore

birrba-birrba: covered in sores

birrigon: silver, glistening

birrikon: shine, brightness

-birt: without

bitj: dry

biyan: dig

biyang: lightly

biyano: to dig

bogala: graves

bogal-wara: stooped, (‘back bad’), disabled

bokadja: there

boni-nanookawin: kneel (boni means knee)

boodjari: pregnant

boodjer: ground

Boodjer: Kingdom, country

Boodjer Boolanga Yira Djelyibiny: Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven (‘God’s Country Ruling’)

Boodjer Boolanga-Yira Djeyibiny: Kingdom of Heaven

Boodjer Boolanga-Yirang Djelyibiny: Kingdom of God (‘The Country God Rules’’)

Boodjera: World (capital B)

Boodjera Boolanga-Yiragang: Heaven, Country of God

boodjera kwolakang: wheat field (‘ground for grain’)

boodjer-djildjiyang: orchard, vineyard (‘land for fruit’)

boola: many, much

boola boya-kadak: rich, have much money

boola moorta: crowd, many people

boolanga: most

boola-ngatti: much more

Boolanga-Yira: God (‘Most High’)

Boolanga-Yirakang–Boodjer: Heaven (God’s Country)

Boolanga-Yirakang Boodjer: Heaven, Country of God

Boolanga-Yirakang Boodjer wer ngalang Boodjer: Heaven and Earth (‘God’s Country and our Country’)

Boolanga-Yirakany Waangki: pray, talk to God

Boolanga-Yirang Boodjer: Heaven (‘Land of God’)

Boolanga-Yirang Boodjer Djelyibiny: Kingdom of God (The Country God Rules)

Boolanga-Yirang Boodjera: Heaven (God’s Country)

Boolanga-Yirany waangkiny: Prayer, talking to God

booliyak: bullock

booliyaka: cattle

boomabara: wound

booma-boyak: grind (with stone)

boomboorman: enemies

boonan: opening

boongal: beside, side

booram: in front

boorda: will, would (future tense)

boorda-don: will do

boordak: write, near/close

boordakiny: writing

Boordakiny-Kooranyi: Scriptures (Holy Writing)

boordak-koorl: approach, come near

boordak-yan: written

boordang: jump, flee, fly

boorn: tree, log

boorna: trees

boornoo: roof

boornoora: autumn

boorn-yambo: cross, (crossed tree)

boorn-yaniny: walking stick (‘wood-walking’)

boorong: having, with

booyal: south

bordak-yan: written

bowan: light, kindle

boya: money (coin, tax, stone))

boya-barranginy: money collecting

boya-birt: moneyless

boya-boola-kadak: has much money, rich

boya-kwarditj: stone (to death)

boyal: east

boyang: far, far off, far away

boyara: coins (‘stones’)

boyin: oil

boyin koorayinang: olive oil

boyin-bandin: perfume (‘oil sweet smell’)

bwok: clothing

bwoka: clothes, clothing (Kangaroo skin)

bwoka noyitjang: grave clothes, clothes of the dead

bwokooda: skin bottle/container

bwokoota: container, skin bag, jar

bwora: within, inside

bwora-koorl: go inside, enter

bwora-koorlo: to go in (UP TO HERE)

bwora-koornoo: push in

bworan: old man

bworana: elders, old men

dabakarn: slow

dabat: slow

dakan: break

dalanga: hunt, fish for

dalba: dust, ash, speck, waste

dalbada: bright, very white

dal-koodjal: hypocrite (‘double tongue’)

dal-koodjalak: hypocrite (two tongue)

dambarritj: bury

dandjo: together, each other

dandjo-barrang: bring together

dandjo-dandjo: together

dandjo-dandjo-barranga: gather together

dandjo-nyiny: sit together

dandjo-yana: walk together

danjo: together

darang: spill

darba: stoop

dargang: kill

dargang boornal: crucify, kill on a tree

darganga boornil: crucify, kill on a tree

dargang-yan: killed

dargang-yan boornal: crucified

darkal: straight

darnayan: terrible

darnayan-djil: very terrible, very terrified

darnayaniny: terrifying

dedin: close, block, shut

dendang: mount, get on

dengkoor: cover up, wrap

dengkoor-yan: covered

didara: middle

didara-kadik: midnight

dinang: carry on shoulder

djaa: mouth

djaadj: meat

djaat: criticise, tell off, rebuke

djaatj: meat

djaatja: meat

djabalar: fall

djabalariny: falling

djabano: to pick up, to gather

djabban: pick up, pick

djadam: hard

djadam boya: solid rock

dja-dediny: shut up (‘mouth-shut’)

djakan: break

djakanak: to destroy, to break

djakan-oola: let break

djakan-yan: destroyed

djakarn: break

djakoorl: ran

djalang: tongue

djalinyan: lick

djallam: salt

djandarn: mend

djang: needle, ghost

djarnyak: must

djarp: knife, sword

djedari: brown

djelibakang nyinyapa: thrones, kings’ sitting places

djelyib: king

Djelyib moortakang Judea-kang: King of the Jews, King of the people of Judea

Djelyib Rome-ang: Emperor, King of Rome

djelyiba: kings

djena: feet

djena bwoka: shoes

djena-bwoka: shoe, foot clothes

Djenak: the Devil, Satan (capital D)

djenaka-wara: evil spirits

djenak-wara: evil spirit

djena-ngarda: under foot

djendjerin: pass

Djendjeriny-Yira: Passing Over

djeral: north

djeran-yan: torn

djeroob: happy

djerramin: wake up

djert: bird

djerta: birds

djertamaya: nest

dji: moment

djijdjita: fish

djikal: at a moment

djikang: briefly (‘for a moment’)

-djil: very

djilba: spring

djilbar: grass

djilbiga: herbs, leaves

djilbika: leaves

djildji: fruit

djildjit: fish

djildjita: fish

djildjitiny: fishing

djillab: sharp

-djin: same, like

djinang: see

djinang-kaaditj: recognise (see know)

djinang-karni: believe (see true)

djinango: to see

djinang-oola: let see

djinang-waangki: read (see-say)

djinang-waangko: to read (‘see-say’)

djinara: roots

djin-bama: condemn, punish

djin-bama-yan: punished (punish + yan)

djinbaminy: punishment (adding ap gives Djinbaminyap – Hell, ‘Punishing place’)

djin-baminy: punishment

Djinbaminyangap: Hell, Punishment place, (-ap – place)

Djinbaminyap: Punishment Place, Hell

djin-bamo: to punish

djinbarranga: find

djinbarrangak: to find

djinbarranga-yan: found

djinda: stars

djin-dijn-kwabba: angel, good spirit

djin-dina-kwabba: angels

djin-djina-kooranyi: angels

djin-djina-kwabba: angels

djin-djin-kwabba: angel (‘spirit good’)

djinnara: roots

djiran: torn apart

djirin: accuse

djirina: accuse

djiriny: accusing

djit: hole

djiyak: until

djona-karra: tempt, test (‘reveal conduct’)

djonany-kariny: trial, testing

djonany-karriny: testing

djoniny-karriny: testing

djook: sister

djooka: sisters

djookoorn: pull

djoomba: hair

djoorab: happy, glad

djoorab-djil: very happy

djoorab-djoorab: excited, very happy

djoorab-djoorab-djil: much happiness

djoorabiny: happily

djooroot: path, way, raod

djooroot doniny-karrinyang: temptation, the path of testing

djoorootal: on the road

djoowak: descendant, generation

djoowaka: descendants

djooworl: left

djora: drink

djoriny: drinking

djoriny-karriny: testing, temptation

dombart: alone

don: do, did

dongki: donkey

doniny: doing, obeying

dono: to do

don-oola: let do

dookarn: cook

dookoon: light, karla-maat – lamp, fire-stick

dookoon-yan: alight

doombart: alone

doomboo: womb

doora: should, really, surely

doora kwadja: would have

doora-barrang: should get

doorgool: straight

dordong: around, ring

dorl-dorl: knock

dornamakariny: war

dwangka: ear(s), heard, hear, listen to

dwangka-anbangbat: forget (‘ear lose)’

dwangka-birgi: confused, (‘ear-sore’)

dwangka-birt: deaf (‘ear without’)

dwangka-boola: wise (‘ear much’)

dwangka-don: obey (hear-do)

dwangka-yan: heard

dwangkiny: listening

dwangko: to hear

dwanka: hear

dwankiny: hearing

dwert: dog

dwerta: dogs

dwordoka: pigs

edjena: happen, come true

edjena-oola: may happen, let happen (-oola = let)

edjeniny: happening

idja: put

-il: adding -il or -(y)il marks the strong subject of the sentence

John-Kakaloorniny: John the Baptist (‘John Washing’)

ka: or

kaa!: enough! baka – touch

kaaditj: know, think

kaaditj-bini: become known

kaaditjiny: thinking, knowledge

kaaditjinyal: in mind, in knowledge

kaanba: wings

kaarang: angry

kaaranga-mira: shout angrily

kaaranga-waangki: angry talk

kaarang-bini: get angry

kaarang-kaarang: very angry

kaat: head, mind

kaat kwedja: skull

kaata: heads

kabarli: old woman

kabin: perhaps

kadak: own, possess, have

kadik: night

kadik-bini: becoming dark

kadjali: distant, far

kadjat: cut

kadjir: also

kadjit: space, sky

kai!: wow! (surprise)

kai-kai: surprised, amazed

kai-kai-djil: very surprised

kakaloornak: to baptise

kakaloorni: wash, baptize

kakaloorniny: washing, baptism

kakatar: prepare

kakatariny: preparing

kakoodjen: hurry

kakoodjeno: to hurry

kalarak: hot, feverish

kalbang: move

kalyakool: forever, always

kalyakool ngandabat: eternal life, life always, life for ever

kalyaminy: false, lying

kalyara: meet

kalyat: cheek

kamak: kamak berry

kambarn: follow, accompany

kambarng: guess

kambarniny: following

kambart: daughter-in-law

kamo: around

kana: step, tread

kana-kana: trample

-kang: of [-ang after a consonant (eg Jacob-ang, Adam-ang), -kang after a vowel sound (eg Joshua-kang, Judah-kang)]

kanga: take, bring, carry

kango: to carry

kangya: spirit

Kangya-Kooranyi: Holy Spirit

kaniny: trampling, treading

kanna: step

kannar: chance

kanya: keep

kanyak: smooth

kanyiny: keeping

karakor: old

karbala: afternoon

karbarli: old woman

kard: hill, mountain

Kard Koorayinang: Mount of Olives

karda: hills

karda-dakkan: divide (‘half-break’)

karda-dakkaniny: division, dividing

karda-dakkan-yan: divided

kardakoor: among

kardakor: among, between

kardi: amazed (This translation tries to use kai-kai for surprise, a sudden reaction, and kardi for the more enduring feeling of amazement)

kardiny: amazing

kardjal: cool

kardjat: cut

kardjatiny: cut, circumcise

kardjir: too, also

Kard-Koorayinang: Mount of Olives

karla: fire

karlaka: urge

karla-kooranyi: altar (‘sacred fire’)

karla-maat: fire stick

karlamaya: village, camp, town

karlamayaka: towns

karlang: hot

karlap: home (fire place)

-karlap: person of ( fire place ie, where your fire is). Added to a place name eg Galilee-karlap, it means Galileean)

karnabirt: wrong (without truth)

karnany: truth

karnany edjena: come true (‘truly happen’)

karnarny: truth

karnayal: truly

karni: true

karni-waangka: teach

karni-waangki: teach

karni-waangkiny: teaching (‘truth saying’)

karnya: shame, ashamed

karra: behave, conduct

karrab: hole, cave

karraba: cave

karradjal: trouble

karra-wara: badly behaved

karriny: behaving

karro: back

karrodjin: look after

karro-waangki: speak again

kati-kati-waangki: whisper (‘silent talk’)

katj: hammer, nail

katta: top

kawa: laugh

kaya: yes

kayalar: meet

kayan: nothing

kayan-kadak: having nothing

kayar: can, could

kayar-djinang: can see

kayar-wining: can live

kayida: soon

kedela: day

Kedela Barnanang: Day of Cleansing (‘Purification ’)

Kedela Kooranyi: Sabbath Day

kedela maar-koodjal: week (‘day-seven’)

kedela ngarninyang wer djorinyang: feast day, day of eating and drinking

kedela ngomon: big day

kedela wer kadik: day and night

Kedela-Djoniny-Karriny: Day of Judgement

kedelaka koorliny: days to come, coming days

Kedela-Kooranyi: Sabbath (‘Holy Day’)

kedelara: days

Keny: the One, the Messiah

keny arda nop: one only son

Keny Boolanga Yira Waangki-Koorl: Messiah, One God Sends

Keny Boolanga Yira Waangki-Koorliny: The One God is Sending, The Messiah

Keny Boolanga-Yira Waangki-Koorl: Messiah (‘The One God Sends’)

Keny Boolanga-Yira Waangki-Koorliny: Messiah (‘One God is Sending’)

Keny Mammarap: The One Man (ie the Messiah)

kenyang: for one, also of one

kenyap: one place, any place

Keny-Barranginy-Ngandabat: Saviour (‘One Bringing Life’)

keny-keny: several, a few, some

kepa: water, rain

kepa-mardayin: liquor, wine

kepa-moorditj: strong liquor

kert-kert: quickly

kidikot: goat

kidji ngarl: and so

kin-kin: pretend

kinyak: enough

kitj: spear, kidja – spears

kitja: spears, bama – strike

kiyaloor: meet

kobatan: betray

kobat-kobatan: betray

kobin: hide

kobina: secrets

kobinap: secret place (secret + ap)

koboorl-wirt: hungry

kobori: dance

koboriny: dancing.

koborl-wirt: hungry (without stomach)

kol: name, call

kola: names

kolal: in the name

kolal Jesus-ang: in the name of Jesus

kolboga: fig tree

kolboka: fig tree

koli: name

kolitj: to name

kolitjo: to name

kolitj-yan: called

kol-yan: called

kolyar: yeast, powder

kongal: south

kooda: string nets or bags, box, container, bowl

kooda koort-koortiny: begging bag

kooda-boya: jar (‘stone container’)

kooda-boyang: purse

koodjal: two, they two pronoun, couple

koodjalang: their (two people)

koodjookat: ahead

koodjooookat: before, in front

kookendjeri: sheep

koolamata: virgin

koolambidi: young man

koolyangarra: crumbs

koolyarn: crush

koolyi: lie

koolyiny: lying

koolyooma: lies

koolyoomitj: tell lies

koonang: manure, dung

koondarm: vision, dream

koondart: cloud

koondi: club

kooniny: young child

koora: long ago

kooramba: everywhere

Kooranyap: Holy Place

kooranyi: holy

Kooranyi Boodjera: Holy Country

koorayin: olive

koordook: want

koordookiny: wanting

koordoonitj: soul

koordor: noise

koorgong: tremble, shiver

koorilkar: a low bush

koorlang: child

koorlangka: children

koorlangka-birt: without children

koorlangweta: born

koorlang-yidja: bear a child

koorl-djinang: search, look for (‘go-see’)

koorl-oola: let go

koorn: shove

koort: heart

koort maat: wife

koorta: hearts

koorta-barrang: marry

koorta-kadakiny: wedding

koorta-keny-bini: come to an agreement (‘heart one become’)

koorta-kenyiny: agreement (one heart)

koortamayara-kwabba: healthy

koort-bakkan: desire

koort-bama: embrace (heart hit)

koort-djal: hate (‘heart evil’)

koort-djinang: desire (heart see)

koort-kadak: marry

koort-karni: faith (‘heart truth’)

koort-karni-birt: faithless (‘without faith’)

koort-karniny: faithfully

koort-keny: agree

koort-koort: beg

koort-koortiny: begging

koort-kwabba: glad, mercy

koort-kwabba-djil: overjoyed (‘heart very good’)

koort-kwidiny: hoping (heart waiting)

koort-maat: wife spouse, wedding

koort-ngarda: upset (‘heart down’)

koortoomitj: soul

koort-wara: sad, sorrow

koort-wara-djil: very stressed

koort-wara-wara: despair, grief

koort-yanga: trust (‘heart give’)

koota-kwabba: happy, good heart

koot-kwabba: joy (‘heart good’)

koot-wara-djil: very sad

korad: short

korang: turn

kordja: aside, separately

koridjat: before

koriyat: first

korl-barrang: get back

korl-djinang: look for, seek, search

korl-djinanginy: looking for

korl-koorl: come back

korl-korang: turn back

korl-miyalitj: look back

korl-yanga: give back

korram: while

kortamayara-kwabba: healthy

koryat: first

kowa: cliff

kowart: daughter

kowarta: daughter

koyitj: axe

kwabba: good, right

kwabba kinyak: good enough, worthy

kwabba warnak: to repair (‘make good’)

kwabba-bini: become well

kwabbadjil: very good

kwabba-djil: righteous, very good, wise, best, wonderful

kwabbalitj: beautiful

kwabba-ngatti: better

kwabba-waangk: praise

kwabba-waangki: speak well

kwadja: have, had etc (past tense)

kwadja-barrang: took

kwadjat: before, until

kwadja-yiraba: has risen

kwadjin: begin

kwadjininy: beginning

kwangkan: desert

kwarda: throw, fall

kwardo: to throw

kwetja: bone

kwibidji: escape

kwidiny: waiting

kwidjang: before, long ago

kwitj: at once

kwitjar: firmly

kwodjang: long time

kwolak: seed

kwolaka: seeds, grain

kwolaka yidja: produce grain

kwonding: quondong

kwonert: flour

kwoyalang: spirit

Levi-kang djoowak: descendant of Levi, Levite

maaman: father

maamana: fathers

maam-inram: ancestor

maam-inrama: ancestors

maar: five, hand, finger, branch

maara: arms

maara-barrang: take in arms, hold, graps, accept

maar-barrang: lay hands on (sometimes means hold)

maar-biri: fingernail

maar-djen: ten

maar-djen-keny: eleven

maar-djen-koodjal: twelve

maar-keny: six

maar-koodjal: seven

maar-koodjal-koodjal: nine

maar-ngwoornmoorn: right hand

maar-waangki: gesture (hand talk)

maar-yanga: help (‘hand give’)

maar-yanginy: helping

maar-yango: to help

maata: legs

maat-wara: lame (‘leg bad’)

maawit: baby

maay: voice

maaya: voice

mabo: outside

madji: rope

mala: lake

maladj: grow

maladja: grow

maladjiny: growing

maladj-oola: let grow

mala-mala: pieces

malar: lake

malatj: grow

malatja: grow

malgar: doctor, wise person

malitji: shadow

malka: doctor, clever person

malyak: begin

malyakiny: starting

malyarak: mid-day

mammarap: man

Mammarap Karni Judea-kang: Patriot, Zealot (‘True Man of Judea’)

mammarapa boya-barranginy: tax collectors (‘people taking money’)

Mammarapa Warrinyang: Law Men (‘Men of the Law’)

mammarapa-bakadjiny: soldiers, men of war

mammarapa-bakadjinyang: soldiers (‘men of fighting’)

Mammarapang Nop: Son of Man

Mammarapa-Warrinyang: Law Men

Mammarap-Warrinyang: Law Man

-man: all (only used for people) (eg mortaman – all people)

mana-barangka: diamond dove

mana-boorangka: dove (diamond dove)

manatja: police

manatja Maya-maya-Kooranyi: Temple police

mandak: country, bush

mandaka: bush

mandang: all

Mandjar: Festival, market

manga: young girl, trap, shoulder

mangat: mother-in-law

mango: to trap (manga=fish trap)

mania: flowers, wattles

manna-ngoonyang: incense (‘gum sweet’)

marawar: west

mara-yanga: help (‘hand give’)

mardakan: drown

mardayin: powerful, strong, strength

mardayinal: in strength, in power

mardayin-biny: become strong

mardayin-kaaditj: study (‘strongly think’)

mardayin-ngatti-biny: become stronger

mariny: weeping

marlaka: mallee

marlanga: prove

marlbarrang-yidja: pull up

marr: wind

marridja: move, travel journey

marridjiny: traveling, journey

maya: box, container

maya-maya boyang: bank (‘house of money’)

maya-maya dediny: gaol, shut house

maya-maya dedin-yan: gaol, (‘house closed’)

maya-maya dedinyang: prison, (house shut)

Maya-Maya Kalyara: Synagogue meeting house

Maya-maya Kooranyi: The Temple

maya-maya kwolakang: grain house, barn

maya-maya ngwoorndiny: inn, rest house

Maya-maya(ra)-Kalyara: synagogue(s) (‘meeting houses’)

Maya-maya-Kalyara: synagogues, meeting houses

Maya-maya-Kalyaragal: Synagogue, Meeting House

Maya-maya-Kooranyi: Temple (‘House Holy’)

maya-ngwoorndiny: bed

mayart: dark

mayirak: grieve

mereny: food, bread, barter

mereny wer djaadj: food (bread and meat)

Merenyang-Bargar: Thin Bread, Unleavened Bread

mika: moon, month (plural – mikara)

mila: later

milgar: new

mili-mili: paper (‘leaf’)

minditj: sick, diseased

minditj-wara: very sick

mingal: tear off, wear out, tears

mingitj: wrong

mira: call out

mira-yan: shouted

miriny: calling

mirlkoon: dish

miyal: eye

miyala: eyes, sight

miyala-birt: blind

miyala-djinanginy: sight, seeing eyes

miyalakal: in the eyes of, in the sight of

miyal-birt: blind

miyalitj: look

miyalitji: watch

miyalitjiny: looking

mo: three, a few

mo wer bangka: three and a half

mogong: strange

mokang: foreigner

mokiny: like, dingo

-mokiny: resemble

mokinya: dingos

moodlooka: everything

mooloor: loaf, cake

mooloora: loaves

moolyimari: face

moolyimarri: face

moonakiny: shine

moon-karng: send

moorart: fill, full

moorartiny: filling

moorartitj: fill

moordak: deep

moorditj: great

moorditj mardayin yirayen: great power from above

moorditj maya-maya: great houses, palaces

moorditj-moorditj: very great, glorious

moorditj-ngatti: much greater, greater

moorndin: back( of body)

moort yana-waangki: messenger (person walk-talk)

moorta: people

moorta boola-boola: crowd (many many people)

moorta boya-barranginy: tax collectors (‘people money collecting’)

Moorta Ngany Waangki-Koorl: Apostles (‘People I Send’)

moorta warda-kadak: seniors, important people

moorta yana-waangki: messengers (‘people-talk-walk’)

moorta-banitjiny: tenants, (‘people using’)

moorta-boordak: neighbours, people nearby

moortaman: all people

mooyang: adultery

morba menditj: skin disease

morba-minditj: skin disease (including leprosy)

morba-wara: skin disease

mord: hill

morda: hills

mordak: deep

mordakan: drown

mordibang: exhausted, worn out

morl-barrang: pull out

mornitj: thorn bush

mornitja: thorn bush

mo-waangki: speak a third time

Naa!: Ah!

naadjang: than

naadjil: why

naan-yaaka: wait, also stay

naan-yaakiny: stay, remain

naba: young, chicks etc

nabba: rub

nadjang: than

nadjil: why

nagal: calm, peace

nagalitj: calm

nakal: peace

nakalal: in peace, quietly

nanyar: fit, stiffen

nanyariny: fitting

naral: side

narla: because, for

narra: burn

narra-yan: burned

narridja: spit

narridja-kwarda: spit, (spittle-throw)

narriny: burning

narro: to burn

natj nidja: what’s this

nembing: bronze-wing pigeon

ngaangk: mother

ngaangk yira-koorl: the sun rises

ngaangk-yira: sun rise

ngaanyaal: myself

ngabalangornda: safe, True happiness

ngabatj: greedy

ngabatj koboorl: greedy

ngakaka: request, ask

ngakaka-marridjiny: messengers

ngakako: to ask

ngakalya: steal

ngakalyang: thief

ngakalyanga: thieves

ngalaal: ourselves

ngalan: how many

ngalen: winding

ngaliny: bending

ngambany: sign

ngambing: sign

nganaka: wait

nganakiny: waiting, expecting

nganala: need

nganayak: wait, expect

nganayaka: expect, wait for

ngandabat: life

ngandabat barrang: save life

ngandabata: lives

ngandabatak: to life

ngangk: sun, (this translation uses ngangk for sun and ngaangk with double aa for mother)

ngangk yira: sunrise

ngangk-djert: mother bird, hen

ngangk-ngardak: sun down

nganitj: stop, finish, end

nganitjiny: ending

nganitjo: to stop

ngank ngarda-koorl: sun set, sun goes down

ngank yira: sun rise

nganyaal: myself

nganyang: my

Nganyang Djelyib: My King, Your Majesty

nganyang kolal: in my name

ngaraka: lower

ngarda: down, low

ngarda- djabalar: fall down

ngarda-barrang: bring down

ngarda-bilang: hold down

ngarda–djil: lowest

ngardak: low

ngardaka: set, go down

ngarda-koorl: come down

ngarda-kwarditj: to throw down

ngardakwir: drop

ngardal: sink

ngarda-miro: call down

ngardanga: bottom

ngarda-ngatti: lowest

ngarda-nyiny: sitting beneath

ngarda-yidja: put down

ngarl: so

ngarl karro: so then

ngarn: consume, eat

ngarnala: need

ngarniny: eating, feeding

ngarniny ka djoriny: feasting, eating and drinking

ngarno wer djoro: to feast, (to eat and drink)

ngarnyap: table, eating place

ngarrak-ngarrak: side to side

-ngat: near

ngatta: more

ngatti: more

-ngatti: more

ngatti-ngatti: again and again

ngayaka: wait for

nginda: when

ngiyan: who

ngiyanga: waves

ngobiny: bleeding

ngolanga: after, from, behind, since

ngolonga: after

ngoming: lay

ngomon: large

ngomon bwoka: curtain, big cloth

ngomon karlamaya: big town, city

ngomon maya-maya djonany-karinyang: court house (‘big house of testing’)

ngomon-djil: bigger

ngooldjar: disciple

ngooldjara: disciples

ngooldjara-kambarna: disciple (‘friend-follow’)

ngooldjara-kambarniny: disciples (‘friend following)

ngooldjar-kambarn: disciple (friend-follow)

ngooloolong: relatives

ngoongoolong: family, relatives

ngoongoolonga: family, relatives

ngooni: brother

ngoonika: brothers

ngooniya: brothers

ngoonoolong: family, relatives

ngoonoolonga: relatives

ngoorndiny: sleeping, lying

ngoorndo: to sleep

ngoornmoorn: right, right hand

ngop: blood

ngorlak: tooth

ngorna-kwabba: merciful

ngornda: chest

ngort: horse

ngowort: shelter

ngwidam: solemn, serious, hard

ngwoordiny: lying

ngwoornda: lie down

ngwoorndak: to lie down, to sleep

ngwoorndin: bed

ngwoorndiny: lying, sleeping

ngwoorndinyap: resting place

ngwoorndo: to lie down

ngwoornmoorn: right hand

ni: listen

ni!: listen!

nidja: this

nidja kadik: tonight

nidja kedela: today

nidja-nidja: these

nidjap: this place

nindjan: kiss

nindyan: kiss

niran: plant

niraniny: planting

nirnt-daalang: scorpion (‘tail-tongue’)

niyandap: plain, flat place

nomaring: pity

nonookaal: yourselves (-aal = self)

noolong: a thing, something

noolonga: things

noolonga-djin: same thing

noolong-djin: same thing

nooloo: narrow

noonaal: yourself

noonookaal: yourselves

noonroo: your own

noorook: egg

nooyang: blow

nop: son

nopa: sons

noyitj: death

noyitja: dead

noyitj-yen: from the dead

nyamap: little bit

nyin: sit, stay

nyin kalyakool: lasts for ever

nyinap: seat, (sit place)

nyininy: staying, sitting

nyin-oola: let stay, let rest

nyiny: exist, be (to sit=to be), stay

–nyiny: to be (literally, to sit)

nyinya-nyinya: forgive

nyinya-nyinya-yan: forgiven (adding yan turns forgive into forgiven)

nyinya-nyinyiny: forgiveness

nyinyap: resting/sitting place (-ap = place)

nyit: little, small

nyitanga: smallest

nyit-djil: smallest

nyit-ngatti: smallest

nyit-nyit: tiny

nyoodjoowal: you two

nyootjoowal: you two

-oola: let (djinang-oola – let see)

-pa: might, may

Rome-kang Birdiyar: Roman Governor

-roo: own (noonookaroo=your own) ngooldjara-kambarn – disciples

Samaria-karlap: from Samaria (‘Samaria home’)

Syria-karlap: Syrian (-karlap = fire place, i.e. a Syrian is a person whose home or fireplace is in Syria)

tatan: stupid

tornamako: to protect

torotawa: burst

wa?: (makes a question) (exclamation at end of question)

waangka- djan: shout

waangka-djan: shout

waangki: say

waangki Boolanga-Yira: pray, speak to God

waangki Boolanga-Yirany: pray, talk to God

waangki dandjo-dandjo: discuss, speak together

waangki djan: scream

waangki warrinya noyitjang: speak the words of death, sentence to death

waangki-birt: without speech

waangki-djan: shout

waangki-djinang: ask question

waangki-djinanginy: questioning

waangki-koorl: send

waangki-kwabba: greet (speak good)

waangki-mardayin: command (‘speak strongly’)

waangkiny Boolanga-Yirany: praying, talking to God

waangki-waangki: argue

waangki-waangkiny: arguing

waangki-wort-koorl: send away

waangki-yonadji: be silent, not speak

waanki-koorl: send

wagal: snake

wakal: snake

walak: share

walak-walak: share, divide

walak-yanga: share out

walak-yidja: change

walbar: shore

walgar-kadak: guilty

waliny: weeping

wallar: careless

wal-wal: weep

walwaliny: crying

wal-waliny: weeping, crying

wambadin: proud

wandaberi: boat

wandang: wearing

wandanginy: wearing

wandang-yan: dressed

wandaniny: wondering

wandja: leave, go from

wandjo: to leave

wangarn: restrain

wanika: funeral

wanni: die

wanniny: dying

wanniyak: to death

war: way

wara-bakkan: injure, hurt badly

wara-banitja: misuse (‘bad using’)

wara-doniny: sinning, sins

waral: in the way

wara-morba: skin disease, leprosy

wara-ngatti: worse

waraniny: hanging

warariny: wronging, sinning

wara-waangki: insult (‘bad-talk’)

wara-wara: evil, very bad, sinful

wara-wara minditj: bad sickness, plague

wara-wara moort: criminal, evil person

wara-wara moorta: evil people, enemies

wara-wara yoka: bad women, prostitutes

wara-wara-djil: awful, very bad

warda: news

warda kadak: important

Warda Marridjiny: Prophet (‘News Traveling’)

warda-kadak: well-known, renowned

warda-kadaka: important men

Warda-Kwabba: Gospel (‘News Good’)

Warda-Marridjiny: prophet

Warda-Marridjinya: Prophets

wardanga: crows

wardarn: sea

war-djin: same way

warkata: seek (another word is korl-djinang, ‘go see’)

warlak-yidja: change

warlbar: coast

warma: other

warmap: another place

warn: make

warning: next

warniny: building

warn-wara: spoil, make bad

warranga: tell, preach

warranga-yan: told

warrangkiny: singing

warrin: word

Warriny: Law, Word

warrinya: words (small w. With capital W it means Law)

warrinya noyitjang: death sentence

warrin-yanga: promise, give word

wayarn: frightened, fear, afraid

wayarn-birt: without fear

wayarn-djil: very afraid

wayarn-djin: very afraid

wayarniny: fearful, anxious

wayarno: to fear

wedina: valley

wedjang: gather, harvest

wer: and (kidji also means ‘and’ when it joins longer phrases with verbs etc)

weyang: mix

windang: old

windji: where

winidjinbar: at that moment

wining: live

wininginy: living

wininy: living,live, alive

winyan: sorrow, sad, poor, afraid

winyana: poor

wiring: straight

wirt: weak

wobata: overflow

wobatiny: full, overflowing

wokart: through

wokart-koorl: spread, go through

wolang: wrap, wear

wolang bwoka: dress, put on clothes

woldjara: vultures

wondanga: loads

won-gin: green

woodjang: remote

woola: exclaim, shout excitedly, celebrate, rejoice

woola-wooliny: celebrating

woomboobiny: proudly

woonya: love, like

woonya-ngatti: love more

woori: long

woorla: moths

woorri: tall, high

worda: neck

worl: sky

wort: away

wort-bangal: sell

wort-barrang: take out, take away

wort-barrang-yan: taken away

wort-bilang: roll away

wort-kanga-yan: taken away

wort-koorl: go away

wort-koorl-oola: let go away, let depart

wort-koorna: push away

wort-korang: turn away from, reject

wort-korang-yan: rejected

wort-kwarda: throw away

wort-kwarditj: throw away

wort-waangki-koorl: send away, divorce

wort-yana: walk away

wort-yanga: give back, give away

wort-yaniny: walking away

yaaka: stand

yaakiny: standing

yadarn: tie up

yadarn-yan: chained, tied

yadok: last

yaka: work

yakin: worker, servant

yakina: workers (so kookendjeriyang-yakina – shepherds)

yakina boodjerang: farmer

yakina-kooranyi: priests

yakin-kooranyi: priest (‘worker holy’)

yakiny: work, working

yako: to work

yakoorl: run

yalga: but

yalgaran: open

yalkaran: free, release

yalkaranan: liberate, set free

yalman-waangk: answer, reply

yalman-waangki: reply

yalya: grave, tomb

yalyetiny: wetting

yambo: across

yambo-koorl: go across

yana: walk

yana-waangki: messenger

yando: gold, yellow

yanga: give, given

yanga-kwabba: bless (give good)

yanga-kwabba-yan: blessed

yanga-kwabbiny: blessing

yanganan: praise, greet, welcome, thank, open

yanganan moorditj: great praise

yanganan-yan: praised

yanga-narra: sacrifice, offering (‘give burning’)

yanga-narriny: give offering (‘give burning’)

yanganiny: praising, thanking

yanga-yan: given

yanginy: gift, giving

yaniny: walking

yardjan: seize

yardjang: capture, seize, arrest

yarlin: body

yarn: how

yarrang-yarrang: rub

yatar-yan: captive, tied

Yediga: Psalms, songs

Yedika: ‘Psalms’, songs

yedi-waangki: sing a song

yedi-waangkiny: singing

yekan: drive out

yekana: drive out

yenang: widow

yenanga: widows

yendan: beneath

yengalang: surround

yennar: every

yennar waral: in every way kooramba – everywhere

yeyi: now

yidja: bear, give birth, put, make

yidjak: to put

yidjan: mock, laugh at

yidja-yan: put

yidjiny: putting

yikkan: wake

yilak: quickly

yilak-yilak: immediately

yimbara: husks

yinadjat: ahead

yinang: young

yinang kookendjeri: lamb, young sheep

yindjaran: dry

yinya-yinya: forgive

yira: over, above, high

yira barrang: take up

yiraba: stand up, get up, rise

yiraba noyitjyen: rise from death

yira-barrang: lift up

yira-barrang-yan: taken up

yiraba-yan: raised

yira-bilang: lift up

Yira-Djendjeriny: Pass Over

yira-djil: very high

yira-djinang: look up

yira-kaaditj: think highly

yirakaat: top, roof

yirakal: suddenly

yira-koorl: go up

yira-koorl-yan: taken up

yiraman: stretch out

yira-miyalitj: look up

yira-ngatti: higher

yirany: rising

yira-nyiny: sit up

yirap: high place

yira-yaaka: stand up (‘appoint’)

yira-yaakiny: standing over

yira-yidja: put up

yira-yira: high

yirrbin: sprinkle, drip

yirribin: drip

yok: woman

Yok Djeyib Sheba-kang: Queen of Sheba

yoka: women

yokaman: all women

yongka: kangaroo (Jesus used the word’camel’)

yoodjil: cup, drinking shell

Yoolina: Council (chiefs, councillors)

yoolindja: chief

yoorang-yoorang: scatter, shake, sift

yoordjang: seize

yoowal-koorl: came

yoowart: not, don’t, not

yoowart kiyar: can/could not (‘not can’)

yoowart moort: nobody

yoowart noolong keny: nothing, not one thing

yoowart-kayar: can’t (‘not can’)

yowi-kwarda: faint

yowir: confused, drunk