water

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Bado-burra
English JS Main: 
water
English: 
To pour water
Category: 
elements: water
Source: 
King in Hunter
Page: 
407.1
Line: 
7
Respelt: 
badubara
Part of speech: 
verb
Date: 
1792
Meaning Clue: 
’barång’ = ’Belly’: [b:3:9] ---------------- barad bini = ‘Empty’: [b:16:11]; bara-bi-rai = ‘Empty’: [c:31:4]; bara-d-bi-rai = ‘Empty’: Collins 1 [508.1:7] ----------------- bara = ‘Make’: Mathews: Darkinyung, 1903 [281.3:39] [Dark] bura-ga = ‘get up! Arise!’: Mathews: 8006/3/5- Nbk 5 [112:11] [Dg] bur’-ga = ‘Get up’: Mathews: 8006/3/7- Nbk 7 [4:32] [Dark]; buru-gi = ‘Dive’: Mathews: Ngunawal, 1904 [305:56] [Gga/Ngwl] buru-ma-li-gu = ‘to lift up.’: Tkld AWA Aust Voc [61:49] [Awa]
Source Details: 
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy. Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London. Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.
Comment: 
SEQUENCE OF ADJECTIVES, and SYNTAX ’  It should be observed that, in speaking, Wolle-warr frequently changes the position of his words, as in Bado-burra: so when walking one night from Prospect-Hill to Rose-Hill, we frequently stumbled against the roots, and he exclaimed "Wr Wad, and Wad Wr," bad wood, or bad roots.’ [King in Hunter, 1968: 270, footnote]