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| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| wilgulga | apple tree, wild ; Woolgoolga | plant | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| wilahr | big | Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| wilahr nyugambil | big toe ; toe, big | body_part | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| wihn juhm | bird species ('? smoke') | bird | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| winyarga | blanket | artifact | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| wihl | cinders | food | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wiyung, wuyung, wuyun | clever (person) | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wiyan | clever in supernatural matters | language | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wiyung | clever man ; medicine man ; witch doctor | language | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| winyam | crab, sand ; sand crab | fish | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| widjir | Ettrick clan name | people | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| wilima- | find out | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| wirwir | flea | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wiya-, windji- | give (to) | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| widjang, wudjang, yihdjang | grass | plant | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| widal | grass | plant | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| widjam | hot ; heat ; summer | time | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| wihya | Lismore clan name | people | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| wiyanggam | long grass | plant | All | [more] | |
| widjanggam, wiyanggam | long grass ; grass, long | plant | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wihyang, wadjung(gan), wayun(g) | mother-in-law | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| wiranggiruh, wayrangiruh | Murwillumbah clan | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| winwin | oak, white ; white oak | plant | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wiyun | oriel (bird) | bird | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wing, guwin | possum, ringtail ; ringtail possum | animal | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wiyang, jambang, yamburu | relation-in-law | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wiyang | relation-in-law term | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| windja | reply if a person is asked to do anything against his will | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| wihya- | say ; tell ; speak (to) ; talk (to) | language | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| winday | sea beach | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wigah- | send in pursuit of | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| windji (winydji), yindji (yinydji) | somewhere ; where? | location | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wiya bureh, mudjuny (?) | spider, trapdoor ; trapdoor spider | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wilarimbam | stars | natural_environment | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| wirgah- | steal | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| wirgah- (wihrgah- ?) | steal | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| windjigan | when | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| windjigu | where (to) | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| windjigahl, yindjigahl (nydj) | where after | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| winygung ba- | whistle | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| widjilima- | whistle | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| winygungbay | whistle, a ; whistling | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| widjabal | Widjabal | language | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| wiyang | wife's brother | people | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wihyabal | Wiyabal (people or dialect) | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| wiyabal | Wiyabal dialect | language | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| widjagang | yellow | colour | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wiya | you (nominative) | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| wihya | you (nominative) | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| wihnyi | you (singular object, accusative) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| wiyeh | you (singular, intransitive subject) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| wihlu | you (singular, transitive subject) | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| wiya ngering (bulayli(gan)) | you two | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] |
