noun

different sources also identify this as the bobtailed lizard, and the stumpy-tail, but contemporary elders say it is the sleepy lizard.

- although we have only one record of this word, from a collection which is not always accurate, this word fits with the kind of words used as place names generally in Nharangga.- awi comes from gawi water.

probably means many hands.

although Gladys Elphick and Cliff Edwards note that this can be a good or bad smell, it seems that good smell is more usual. Kuhn records marda as sweet, or good taste.

found in the compound marda gawi mirage. Marda appears separately in related language records, so may have been a separate word in old Nharangga as well.

- many family terms in Nharangga were not clearly recorded. It is not fully certain what this word means. Possibly:~ for a woman - her sons child and probably also her sisters grandchild.~ probably also for a man - his sisters sons child.

according to Sarah Newchurch (Black), this means literally young woman.