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Aboriginal Placename Signs

For Aboriginal placenames elsewhere around Australia see here.

	Berowra means ’shells’ or ‘fishhooks’	Birrong means ‘star’
	Cabramatta means either ‘place of grubs’ or ‘plenty of grubs’
Chullora means ‘ash’. It also means ‘flour’ and ‘frost’, so the underlying idea appears to be ‘white powder'	Colah means 'koala', but also ‘anger’	Colebee was a Sydney Aboriginal man captured along with Bennelong on 25 November 1789 in an attempt by the colonisers to learn about the local Aboriginal people. Within a fortnight he had escaped.

Name of the local language group of the Sydney basin
		Mulgoa means ‘swan’
	Narwee means ‘canoe’	Parramatta means ‘place of eels’ or ‘plenty of eels’
	Turramurra probably means ‘trees’	Wahroonga means ‘when’—however unlikely this would appear
	Warrawee probably means ‘to stand’	Whalan means ‘rain'
Wayi wayi probably means ‘large expanse of water’ as when looking over Sydney Harbour, or a lake. Near Kirribilli there is a Weye-Weye Point, with -eye pronounced as in the word ‘eye’.	Yagoona means ‘today’ or ‘now’

Gooseberry: wife of Bungaree
	berrillee: 'finger'	bula: 'two'

	Bungaree, c.1788-1830, was one of the best known Sydney Aboriginal men, described as "flamboyant, talented, shrewd, with more than a touch for the bizarre". He circumnavigated Australia with Matthew Flinders.	One of the significant clans of the Sydney Aboriginal language group, living on the north shore around present-day Cammeray; 'gal' means people or mob.


	giyara: a name
gamayi: 'spear'		garaba was the name of a multi-pronged fishing spear used by the men in Mosman and all round the harbour. The women caught fish from lines in canoes.
marayong: 'emu'
ngala ngala: a special club

possibly error for diramu: 'tree'
waratah: name of a flower	warigal means 'dog', as does dingo
		wiriga: 'lizard'
		wonga wonga: a pigeon
		yurongi: 'black duck'