Wiradjuri Words

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Here are some Aboriginal words of the Wiradjuri people and their meanings collected over the years:

YUURRUUNG: a cloud
BUUNAN: dust
BIRRANG: horizon
MIGEE: a bolt of lightning
GIWANG: the moon
GALIMBANG: rain
YUULUUBIRRGIYN: a rainbow
GUUNAMA: smoke
YIRRI: the sun
GAYLIN: water
KAAP: the wet season
MIRRUUL: clay
DHARRANG: a creek
DHIRRAYN: a hill
MUUURRUU: a path or track
WALANG: a stone
GAWAL: a swamp
BILABANG: a billabong
MAREEYN: a canoe
GUULAAY: a fishing net
BILA: a river
GALIYN: water
YUUGI: a dingo
GANYI: an echidna
GANUURR: a kangaroo
WILAY: a possum
BARRBAAY: a wallaby
GIRRAWAA: a goanna
NHARRANG: a lizard
YABA: a snake
BUUJAAN: a bird
BUUDHANBANG: a wild duck
BUUBIL: a feather
GUUGUUBARRA: a kookaburra
NGUURRANG: a nest
DHUUNDHUU: a black swan
DHANGUURR: a fish or possibly a catfish
GUUYA: a fish (general)
BAGAAY: a shell
DHUURRUUY: an ant
BUUJA-BUUJA: a butterfly
BUUGA: a blowfly
GINMA: a caterpillar
GALANG-GALANG: a cicada
MUURRUUNG: a grasshopper
BUUUGARRUU: grass
GIRRANG: a leaf
GWANDAANG: a quandong
GEEGAL: a tree
BUURREE: wattle
BIRRI: white box tree
BUURRAAY: a baby or child
GAAGANG: brother
BABEEN: father
NGUUBAN: husband
MINGGAN: sister
NGUUBAN: wife
MIL: the eye
INARRGANG: a girl
BIJAA or JIRRIBANG: an old man
YAAMBUULDAAYN: a storyteller
INAAR or MIGAY: a woman
NGUURRAMBANG: birthplace
BUURRBANG: a ceremony
BAGEEYN or BIRIK: a ghost
BAGEEYN: magic
BIRIK or WANDANG: a spirit
BARRGAN: a boomerang
WAMARR: a spear thrower or woomera
BUUNAN: ash from a fire
GEEWAL: to cook
WEEYN: fire
GEEGAL: firewood
NGALAN: a flame or light
NGUURRANG: a camp site
NGUURRAMBANG: home
GUNJI: a house
WIRREE: to lie down
WINANGGAL: to hear
GUUDHI: to sing or a song
BUUDHANG: black
GIRRI-GIRRI: red
GABAN or BARRA-BARRA: white
GUUNANG-GUUNANG: yellow
MUURRUUN: alive
BINAAL or BIYANG: all
BABIRR or BINAAL: big
BALUUDAAY: cold
BARRRGAN-BARRGAN: crooked
BUURRANG: dry
WALANG: hard
WUUGIL: heat or hot
BAAMIRR: long
BINAAL, BUUNGUU, GALANG: many or much
MUURRAAY: soft
WALAN: strong
DHALBAL: wet
MANARR: wide
MARRAMMUUBANG: bad
MARRAMBANG, MARRANG, min: good
WANJIBAAYN: naughty
GWANGI: silly
BARRAMAL or NGUUNG: to bring
GANAAY: burn
GALIYAAY: climb
WUUBUUNGEE: dive
BAAMBEE: float
BARRAAY: fly
YANAAY, YARRABI: go or walk
WIRREE: lie down
GINDHAAY: play
BAAMBEE: swim
MUURRUUN: life
NINGGI: look
WEE: sit or stay
WARRAAY: stand
GADHANG: glad or happy
GINDHAAY: laugh
GUUHI: sing
NGAMRRI: sleep
GALIYAAYNBAL: above
BIRRA: away
NGUURRAMBANG: birthplace
NGUURRUUNGGAL: dawn or early or morning or tomorrow
NGUUBAAY NGANGARRI: day
BILAGAL: down or downhill
BIRRANG: far
NGINA: here
GUUGIN: near
YANDHAL: now
NGAAWAA: come here
WIRRAAY: no
NGADHI: my

There are probably many other words. This page will be amended as they are found.

Aboriginal Place Names

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See Also: Wiradjuri Words, Other Indigenous Words

The Wiradjuri were the local Budgee Budgee clan. Their tribal area stretched as far as Wellington and the Mudgee region was only a small part of their hunting grounds. Aboriginal place names abound in and around the district.

Time has already obliterated any physical Aboriginal presence but the place names live on to remind us of the past. Here are the meanings of some of them:

MUDGEE: a nest. Allegedly derived from a word in our indigenous language—Moothi, a place of rest.

BURRUNDULLA: a kind of reed found in a swamp.

WILBETREE: from wilbur-dree; a long switch

EURUNDEREE: a tree in the vicinity (the actual tree is not known)

PIPECLAY: dabburang or clay for pipes.

GULGONG: a ditch or gully.

BUMBERRA: sneaking after game.

BURRENDONG: very dark, darker than usual.

GOREE or GURAI: sneaking after game.

WOLLAR: from the word wallar, a waterhole in the rocks.

COOYAL: guyal meaning dry.

GUNTAWANG: quima-wabg, a stony crossing.

MEROO: worroo, a nose.

MENAH: flat country.

PUTTA BUCCA: puttaba, the name of a hill near a creek and bugga, stinking fish.

BUDGEE BUDGEE: Not known if this is an Aboriginal word. See Budgee Budgee on this web site for further details.

There are many others but no definitive list of local Aboriginal place names appears to exist. Aboriginal nomenclature was a consummate art.