ik

First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.


baba

bâboop (alternative)
babeb (alternative)
papa (alternative)
baban (alternative)
pa-pa (alternative)


wang

wangga (alternative)
wango (alternative)
wangò (alternative)


mani

mani gawangik (here is my head)


bali

cherry ballart (Exocarpos cupressiformis)


ngargee

(Bunurong) a tree where such gatherings are held


yarra

Related to Proto-Central New South Wales *yarrañ (“beard”) and Bandjalang yarayn (“beard”).


wurru-wurru

wurru wurru (alternative)
woorowoor (alternative)
woorrworrâ (alternative)
wurruwurru (alternative)


yit-yita-mirring

yit-yiti-mirring (alternative)
yit-yit-mirring (alternative)


baa-dji mirrang

Compound of baañ, dji and mirn. Literally "water [of the] eye".


baañ

baan (alternative)
baanj (alternative)
parn (alternative)
paayn (alternative)
paen (alternative)
baṇa (alternative)


narrin

narrin-ik John Smith


gaang

gang (alternative)
kâ-ang (alternative)
kang (alternative)


Geboor

Mount Macedon (a mountain in Victoria, Australia)


kalk

Woongana ngana kalk.


kulin

kolin (alternative)
koolin (alternative)
kūlin (alternative)


yana

One day he was in his gurrong yana fishing, where Badger Creek meets the Yarra River


morr

Prickly Currant Bush
Prickly Currant Bush

Prickly Currant Bush (Coprosma quadrifida)


mamem

marmun (alternative)
mamaneek (alternative)
maman (alternative)
mamun (alternative)


durt

durt pirram (alternative)
turtpirn (alternative)
toorrt (alternative)
turt (alternative)


managa

managa gawangik (that is my head)


wiin

wein (alternative)
ween (alternative)
wiinj (alternative)
wiyn (alternative)


marram

Macropus giganteus
Macropus giganteus#Translingual

eastern grey kangaroo
eastern grey kangaroo

Macropus giganteus, eastern grey kangaroos


ngamudji

Ngamatji is the place Wurundjeri people believe the soul returns to after death, as a person becomes pale upon death, when Wurundjeri people saw non-Aboriginal people for the first time, they referred to them as "Ngamatji" to respectfully say to them 'go back to the place where you came from'

ngamatji (alternative)
ngamajet (alternative)

white-skinned settler or man (in Australia)

The place where the soul returns to after death


ngamudji-gurrk

white skinned settler or woman (in Australia)


weet weet

A weapon and toy used for hunting birds and small game


marnang

marnong (alternative)
marning (alternative)


waa

"When a crow (waa) comes over and cries 'waa, waa, waa', you know that your enemies are about."


terrat

Geranium solanderi
Geranium solanderi#Translingual


murup

murrup (alternative)
muRup (alternative)


gurborra

gurrborra (alternative)
gurrburra (alternative)


wurrung

wooroong (alternative)
nga-angdak (alternative)


buŋ

southern brown bandicoot
southern brown bandicoot

southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus)


wominjeka

womin (“come”) + -dji (“I'm asking you”) + ka (“purpose”)


yit-yit-mirring

Alternative form of yit-yita-mirring (canonical)
yit-yiti-mirring (alternative)
yit-yita-mirring (alternative)

From the Woiwurrung word for "eye" mirring


yarra mirring

From the Woiwurrung words for "eye" mirring and "hair" yarra


dulai-wurrung

dulai wurrung (alternative)
dulaiwurrung (alternative)


kombadick

kombadik (alternative)
kombadi (alternative)


yanggai

yellow-tailed black cockatoo
yellow-tailed black cockatoo


kirrip

ngoon godgin kirrip-bulok nugal ik


liwik

Yiookgen Dhan Liwik-al


marbeangrook

Using the "-grook" Woiwurrung suffix to indicate female


Birrarung

Literally meaning "river of mist" in Woiwurrung


Mirrangbamurn

From Woiwurrung mirring (eye) and barmurn (ringtail possum)


Nyilambik

From Woiwurrung words nyilam (“bad”) and biik (“country”)


yannguk

red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)


ae-noke

common brown butterfly caterpillars
common brown butterfly caterpillars

common brown butterfly caterpillars (Heteronympha merope)


myrnong

mernong (alternative)
mirr'n-yong (alternative)
murnung (alternative)
murrnong (alternative)
murnong (alternative)


bullan-bullan

bullen-bullen (alternative)
buln-buln (alternative)


jindyworobak

jindi woraback (alternative)
jindy-worabak (alternative)


leangle

From Wemba-Wemba lia + Woiwurrung liang, describing the head of the implement.


bundaban

Chelodina longicollis
Chelodina longicollis#Translingual

Long necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis)


wangnarra

Messmate stringybark
Messmate stringybark

Messmate stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua)


karawun

spiny-headed mat-rush
spiny-headed mat-rush

spiny-headed mat-rush (Lomandra longifolia)


wayetuck

black she-oak (Allocasuarina littoralis)


be-al

Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis#Translingual

river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)


djelwuck

austral mulberry (Hedycarya angustifolia)


baggup

Xanthorrhoea australis
Xanthorrhoea australis#Translingual

Southern grasstree (Xanthorrhoea australis)


mangurt

ball made of possum pelt and covered in sinews used for playing marngrook


gǔtchū

bitter quandong-tree (Santalum acuminatum)


watchǔpga

Dodonaea viscosa
Dodonaea viscosa#Translingual


bubup

booboop (alternative)
boopoop (alternative)
boopup (alternative)
booboop (alternative)
pupup (alternative)


manggip

meeng-gip (alternative)
mang keep (alternative)
kerin (alternative)
manggeb (alternative)


yearrnjenong

From the Woirurrung words yearrn (“bare”) and djinang (“foot”)


djinang

jeenoong (alternative)
jenong (alternative)
tjinang (alternative)


bindjirru

pulapil (alternative)
bolloween (alternative)
pintjuRu (alternative)


warrn-murn

Ardeotis australis
Ardeotis australis#Translingual


nilimjak-koorring

nilimjak-koorren (alternative)
nilimjak-korring (alternative)


wilam

wil'im (alternative)
willam (alternative)

It was early autumn and the easily erected bark willams of former times had sufficed


tanderum

a ritual in which gifts are exchanged and the right of passage arranged for others to cross one's land


wirrarap

wirr-araap (alternative)
wirrarup (alternative)
wirrirrap (alternative)


wy krook

wy-krook (alternative)
wayikuRk (alternative)
wayipu (alternative)


booboop narrkwarren

A combination of bubup (“baby, babe, child”) and narrkwarren (“family”)


Naarm

→ English: Naarm

Melbourne (the capital city of Victoria, Australia)


coranderrk

Native mint bush (Prostanthera lasianthos)


tharing-beek

"the spirits of the dead had been believed to ascend on their final journey into the Tharing-beek


tangbilk

tang billk


woonga gat

umalek (alternative)
yumma-leek (alternative)


jaboon-marnong

From the Woiwurrung words jaboon (“fill”) and marnang (“hand”)


jâllin

jalang (alternative)
jallin (alternative)
tjalang (alternative)


onem-da

the regard that we have for each other that holds us together as a community


ngarrak

ngarrak nakorang wilam


ba-bourn marnang

ba-bo-ûn marnang (alternative)
babungyi-muningya (alternative)


liwurruk

leewooruk (alternative)
lee woork (alternative)


ngawan

ngumi (alternative)
ngawiyn (alternative)
ngaimai (alternative)


dhumba

infinitive
dhumba
1st-person singular
dhumba-njan (present)
dhumba-injan (future)
2nd-person singular
dhumba-njarr (present)
plural
dhumba-djerring (present)
subjunctive
2nd-person singular imperative
dhumba-i (present)
dhumba-ai (present)
2nd-person plural imperative
participles
thumpa (alternative)

dhumba-njan

dhumba-njarr

wurrung-ik dhumbanjan


yagila

infinitive
yagila
1st-person singular
yagila-njan (present)
2nd-person singular
yagila-njarr (present)
plural
yagila-djerring (present)
subjunctive
imperative
participles


ngarrge-jerrin

ngarrge jerrin (alternative)
tjiRong (alternative)
tjaRang (alternative)


djirringu

derreng-o (alternative)
tjiRingu (alternative)


nganjin

yurlendj-nganjin


buladu gaang

Literally buladu (“big”) and gaang (“nose”)


yan-yan

Many years ago in the ‘Dreamtime’, there was a yan-yan who asked wirrirrap to give him special skills and power to be a great hunter


yinga

infinitive
yinga
1st-person singular
yinga-njan (present)
2nd-person singular
plural
yinga-ngañinu (present)
subjunctive
2nd-person singular imperative
2nd-person plural imperative
participles

Wiñdha wuleli
Badjurr murnmurndik pundarroneit-ngañinu wuleli
Bilang-bilang-dui wilam-dui
Wunga booboop narrkwarren-ngañinu
Pundarroneit-njan pundarroneit-ngañinu
Nyirrebruin dagung
Yinga-ngañinu, twaga-ngañinu wuleli-bulok
Where are the yam tubers
The women and daughters all dig yam tuber
They put them in their dilly bag and take them back to camp
They give them to their family
I dig, we all dig
Not hungry
We all sing, come back all of our many yam tubers


woolip

Woolly Tea-tree (Leptospermum lanigerum)


toolemerin

Xanthorrhoea minor
Xanthorrhoea minor#Translingual