mate

Eastern & Central Arrernte — Arrernte

a person, an Aboriginal person

Bininj Kunwok — Bininj — Kakadu

the Yarra — river of mists

Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung & the Kulin tongues — Kulin Nations

country, land

Noongar — Noongar

ground, earth — one's country

Kuku Yalanji — Kuku Yalanji

high head — the volcano that made the eel country

Dhauwurd Wurrung (Gunditjmara) — Gunditjmara

Brown Lake

Jandai — Quandamooka

ceremony dance

Yolngu matha — Yolngu

the wedge-tailed eagle, the creator

Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung & the Kulin tongues — Kulin Nations

Lardil's secret ceremonial register — the only click-sound speech outside Africa

Yanyuwa & Lardil — Yanyuwa & Lardil

the crescent headdress of ceremony

Kala Lagaw Ya & Meriam Mir — Torres Strait Islanders

woman

Dharug & the Sydney language (Eora) — Dharug & Eora

the people from here

Dharug & the Sydney language (Eora) — Dharug & Eora

the fighting spear the language is named for

Gamilaraay & Yuwaalaraay — Kamilaroi

the kangaroo the whole world borrowed

Guugu Yimithirr — Guugu Yimithirr

hello — Gumbaynggirr

Bundjalung & Gumbaynggirr — Bundjalung & Gumbaynggirr

Bunuba's mother-in-law register — a different way of speaking before certain kin

Bunuba & Bardi — Bunuba & Bardi

sea — Meriam Mir

Kala Lagaw Ya & Meriam Mir — Torres Strait Islanders

the kinship system that orders all of life

Yolngu matha — Yolngu

speech, word

Guugu Yimithirr — Guugu Yimithirr

the meeting place — Wilpena Pound

Adnyamathanha — Adnyamathanha

the sea, big water

Kuku Yalanji — Kuku Yalanji

the people of the seaside

Kuku Yalanji — Kuku Yalanji

'no' — the language named by its own word for no

Jandai — Quandamooka

design, pattern — the painted marks of body, canvas and ironwood

Tiwi — Tiwi

'foot-belong' — a shoe

Warumungu — Warumungu

hello, greetings

Bundjalung & Gumbaynggirr — Bundjalung & Gumbaynggirr

the Dreaming — law and story together

Warlpiri — Warlpiri

paradise — the island itself

Butchulla — Butchulla

fire

Mirning (Mirniny) — Mirning & Wirangu

goanna

Noongar — Noongar

woman

Warlpiri — Warlpiri

the river of the red gums

Kaurna — Kaurna

hello

Noongar — Noongar

all right

Eastern & Central Arrernte — Arrernte

eel — the migrant of the stone traps

Dhauwurd Wurrung (Gunditjmara) — Gunditjmara

a songline — the line of song that maps the Victoria River country

Gurindji — Gurindji

dog

Warumungu — Warumungu

'dog-having' — a greyhound bus

Warumungu — Warumungu

stone — the stone country of the escarpment

Bininj Kunwok — Bininj — Kakadu

a man, a person

Gunaikurnai — Gunai/Kurnai

water

Kalkatungu — Kalkadoon

Tasmania

palawa kani — Palawa

food

Kalkatungu — Kalkadoon

the rainbow kelp shell of the necklace strings

palawa kani — Palawa

sea — Kala Lagaw Ya

Kala Lagaw Ya & Meriam Mir — Torres Strait Islanders

hand

Mirning (Mirniny) — Mirning & Wirangu

a person — 'one of us'

Martu (Manyjilyjarra & Kartujarra) — Martu

North Stradbroke Island

Jandai — Quandamooka

Moreton Island

Jandai — Quandamooka

the Arrernte name of Alice Springs

Eastern & Central Arrernte — Arrernte

camp, home — Kala Lagaw Ya

Kala Lagaw Ya & Meriam Mir — Torres Strait Islanders

path

Dharug & the Sydney language (Eora) — Dharug & Eora

good

Eastern & Central Arrernte — Arrernte

a digging stick in Yanyuwa — replaced by another word entirely in avoidance speech

Yanyuwa & Lardil — Yanyuwa & Lardil

Melbourne

Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung & the Kulin tongues — Kulin Nations

'this' — the nation is named as the people who say ngaanya

Ngaanyatjarra — Ngaanyatjarra

home, camp, country

Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytjatjara — Anangu

to give knowledge and understanding

palawa kani — Palawa

good, hello, all right — the all-purpose warm word

Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytjatjara — Anangu

grey kangaroo — the girl who taught the language to William Dawes

Dharug & the Sydney language (Eora) — Dharug & Eora

the ceremonial taboo that follows a death — the reason a name is closed and the poles are raised

Tiwi — Tiwi

wood, tree

Martu (Manyjilyjarra & Kartujarra) — Martu

law

Yolngu matha — Yolngu

to walk

palawa kani — Palawa

red kangaroo place — Adelaide

Kaurna — Kaurna

bream — the fish of the lakes

Ngarrindjeri — Ngarrindjeri

sun

Mirning (Mirniny) — Mirning & Wirangu

law, story, the Dreaming

Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytjatjara — Anangu

law, story, the Dreaming

Ngaanyatjarra — Ngaanyatjarra

fire

Kalkatungu — Kalkadoon

safe journey — said in meeting and in parting

Dhurga, Djiringanj & the south coast tongues — Yuin

water

Mirning (Mirniny) — Mirning & Wirangu

the winding river — the Macquarie

Wiradjuri — Wiradjuri

sun

Kalkatungu — Kalkadoon

speech, talk

Wangkatha — Wangkatha

'people who talk our talk' — the name is the phrase

Wangkatha — Wangkatha

dingo — in Yanyuwa everyday speech

Yanyuwa & Lardil — Yanyuwa & Lardil

man

Warlpiri — Warlpiri

speech, language — 'Wik' simply means the talk

Wik-Mungkan & Wayan — Wik & Wayan

look, listen, learn

Ngunnawal — Ngunnawal

to remember

Wiradjuri — Wiradjuri

land, ground

Yorta Yorta — Yorta Yorta

cloud catcher — the great caldera mountain

Bundjalung & Gumbaynggirr — Bundjalung & Gumbaynggirr

welcome — come with purpose

Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung & the Kulin tongues — Kulin Nations

hello

Gamilaraay & Yuwaalaraay — Kamilaroi

a man, an Aboriginal person of the Murchison

Wajarri — Yamaji

a person, an Aboriginal person

Warlpiri — Warlpiri

sea country — the waters and lands together

Ngarrindjeri — Ngarrindjeri

the didgeridoo

Yolngu matha — Yolngu

the great spirit who made the island

Butchulla — Butchulla

respect — gentleness, honour, going slowly

Wiradjuri — Wiradjuri

kangaroo

Noongar — Noongar

'no-no' — the nation named by doubling its own word for no

Yorta Yorta — Yorta Yorta

hello — from yumalundi, 'hello and welcome'

Ngunnawal — Ngunnawal

a person, the people

Adnyamathanha — Adnyamathanha

the people's law, told in the ranges' own geography

Adnyamathanha — Adnyamathanha

the twin hills above the plains

Kaurna — Kaurna