# Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines/A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the aborigines of Western Australia/Part 1/T

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    N.B.—The Sounds T and D are in so many instances used indiscriminately or interchangeably, that it is difficult to distinguish frequently which sound is most predominant. The predominant sound varies in different districts. See Preface.
Tab-a-dak? (K.G.S.) A species of fish.
Tabba, s.—The native knife; a rude implement formed of sharp-edged chips of quartz, set in a row, about four inches long, and fixed by means of Kadjo, or Xanthorea gum, to a short wooden stick about as thick as a man's finger.
Tabitbh? (K.G.S.) Dry.
Taddar, s.—(Upper Swan dialect.) Fuller's earth.
Tadibi, s.—Prepared Xanthorea gum resin. See Tudtebu.
Takil—(K.G.S.) A feather.
Takkan, v.—Pres. part, Takkanin; past tense, Takkanăgga. To break.
Takkand-yung—Broken.
Tammin, s.—A grandmother; a grandfather.
Tandaban—(K.G.S.) To spring; to jump.
Tapingur—(K.G.S.) To steal.
Tdo-dăk (K.G.S.) Raw; uncooked. See Djidik.
Tdon-gan—(K.G.S.) A species of By-yu.
Tdu-dar—(K.G.S.) A girl.
Tdud-tin—(K.G.S.) A species of Xanthorea.
Tdun-dal, a.—(Northern Dialect.) Fair; white; light coloured.
Tdun-jar—(K.G.S.) A species of frog eaten by the natives.
Tdur-dăng—(K.G.S.) Green.
Tdur-tin—(K.G.S.) Trackless; untraversed; without a path.
Tdur-tyl—(K.G.S.) A species of fly.
​Teni, s.—Brother-in-law. See Deni.
Tergur—(K.G.S.) To enclose.
Ti-il—(K.G.S.) Any crystals. These are supposed to possess magic power. The same name is also applied to anything transparent.
Ti-endi—(K.G.S.) Stars.
Tjil-ki—(K.G.S.) A species of cray-fish.
Tjoi-ung—(K.G.S.) A species of iguana.
Tolol, a.—(Upper Swan dialect.) Straight forward; direct.
Tolyl, s.—A crow. See Wardung.
To-nait?—(K.G.S.) Here.
Tonga, or Twonga, s.—The ear.
Tonga Bergi-bergi-un, v.—To confuse.
Torn-a-mag-ar—(K.G.S.) To fight; to contend.
Toy—(K.G.S.) The calf of the leg.
Toyntch-wăng—(K.G.S.) To collect.
Tuart, s.—The white Eucalyptus which grows in the lime-stone districts. It is a most valuable timber for millwrights, shipwrights and wheelwrights, as it is almost impossible to split the wood, although it may be very closely morticed. As this wood is not liable to splinter, it would be particularly suitable for ship-building in the time of war.
Tudteba, s.—The resin of the Xanthorea or grass-tree, prepared for use by being mixed with charcoal. This mixture, having been first heated, is applied by the natives to fasten on the heads of the hammers, and the quartz edges of their knives. It is more brittle than the cement on the hammers, on which account it is preferred for the spears, that the barbs or teeth may come off more easily in the wound.
Tuk—(K.G.S.) A species of frog eaten by the natives (thus named from the noise it makes).
Tul-dy-náng—(K.G.S.) A species of Jew-fish.
Tulga, s.—Gum of the Hakea tree.
Tur-nit—(K.G.S.) A baby.
Tu-ta-min-di—(K.G.S.) The knee.
Twotta, s.—A Eucalyptus, of which the natives chew the bark of the roots, wrapped about gum, or pounded up with it into a cake. Colonially, the York gum-tree, being the principal timber which characterises that district. The lands whereon it is found are generally good for sheep pasture.
T-yundăl-ăr—(K.G.S.) A species of flat-fish.
T-yung (K.G.S.) The local name of the fish colonially called the cobbler. Thus named from the spine with which it stings. But is it not rather the sharpened bone by which the cartilage of the nose is perforated? which bone is called Iyungo, by the Swan natives.