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 Section 13.

Gurrara-kan, ' one who personally attends to'; gurrarakan

kauwal, ' one who is very pitiful.' Gurrara-mulli-kan, 'one who causes or exercises attention,'

' one who does attend to '; the phrase means ' he is a merciful

Being.'

WINTA 5.— Part 5. Section 1.

Goro, 'three'; see page 108.

Kakilli, 'state of being'; hence kakilliko, ' to be, to exist ' in some state; we cannot express 'is dead' by tetti katan, because katan implies existence, though we may say moron katan, ' is alive,' because existence is implied ; ' is dead ' must be tetti ka ba, which means 'is in the state of the dead '; generally the blacks say kulwon, 'stiff, rigid' for 'dead'; thus tetti ka ba kulwon is equivalent to 'dead and stiff,' in opposition to ' a swoon,' which might be the meaning, unless circumstances led to another conclusion.

Wokka, an adverb, 'up,' opposed to bara, 'down'; wokka kaba moroko kaba, ' are up in heaven.'

Eiyugbai ta, 'the father it is.'

AViyelli-kan ta, 'the one who speaks it is'; this is the form of the word when applied to a person ; to a thing, it would be wiyellikanne.

Marai ta, ' the spirit it is,' in opposition to corporeal substance; but kurrabag is 'the body,' and mamuya is 'a ghost" murrin is another word for ' the body.'

Yirriyirri, 'sacred, reverend, holy'; not to be regarded but with awe, as is the place marked out for mystic rites; a separate place not to be profaned by common use, hence holy ; a person reverend, to be held in reverence, sacred. Native heralds and messengers pass as sacred persons ; they are held in reverence, and are unmolested by hostile parties, when on embassies of war or peace ; yirriyirri-lag means ' one who acts sacredly,' one who is holy, separate by privilege of being held sacred or in reverence. In the South Sea Islands, a pig devoted to the god Oro, in former times, was made sacred by having a red feather thrust through and fastened to its ear, and thus the reverend pig was privileged to feed anywhere unmolested, as being sacred ; nor Avas he confined to a tithe of the produce if he broke through into any plantation, but was permitted to eat his fill, not, however, without a murmur at the sacred intru- sion.

Unni, 'this,' as subject or object ; gali, 'this,' as agent; unni ta goro ta, ' this it is, the three it is'; wakal bo ta, 'one it is, one-self only it is.'

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