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| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| -bil | intensive descriptive | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| babar, babara(h) | bush ; country, rough and scrubb ; forest, rough and scrubby | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| babin.gah | highland | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| badjili- | rain, to | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bagay | ice ; frost ; snow | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bagi | bush ; scrub ; jungle | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bagir, bagehr | open country ; country, open | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bagiri- | clear (land) | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bahdjab | roar (of the sea) ; sea???s roar | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bahlum, balum | lagoon, open | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bahmginy | hillside | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| balgan | many | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| baluhbar | two | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| balun | creek ; river | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| balun | river ; creek ; Milky Way | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| balwar | sky | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bamay | lake | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bamay | swamp | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| bamay | flat land ; plain ; level country ; land, flat ; country, level | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bamgindjar | cave | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bamrabah(?) | bay | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| banbam | hillock ; knob | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| banbar | path ; road | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| bandah | frost | natural_environment | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| bandal | creek, crooked | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bandal | shell | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| banggawalban | Bangawalbin Creek ; Bangawalbin River | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| banggi- | explode (Gd) ; open up ; flare up or brighten suddenly ; burst ; blaze ; come out (of sun) ; shoot | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| barahybil | top ; summit ; peak | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| barbil | light (of day) | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| barehl | hazy (of atmosphere) | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bargam | frost | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| baya- | come out (e.g. the sun) ; get out ; get up ; arise ; appear ; wake up ; come into view | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| baygu | small mountain | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| bayili- | fall (of rain) | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bigi | sun | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bilahr | flood | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| bilanggil | because of the inlet from the sea | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bilmah | rock ; rocks | natural_environment | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| bin-, bin.ga-, birwa- | fall (of frost) ; form (of frost) ; set (of sun) ; set (of moon) | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bindim | driftwood in a river ; rubbish | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| binggiribah | saltwater crossing | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| birany | waterhole | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| birbi | fresh water crossing ; Nerang township site name | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| birin, biren | salt water | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| biriny | burrow (Gd) ; tunnel (Gd) ; crack, a (Wa) | natural_environment | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| birman | cave | natural_environment | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| biyuhl | hill ; mountain | natural_environment | All | [more] | |
| buba | ashes | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| buban | flood | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bubang | water | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| bubar | forest | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bube(h), buba | dust | natural_environment | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bubeh | ashes ; dust | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bubigan | flooded ground | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| budjar | snow ; feather | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| budjihrbiny | foam ; froth | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| buhlmang | whirlwind, large | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| buhn-buny | whirlwind, small | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| buhn-bunybuhr | whirlwind, tiny | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| buhny | wind | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| buhny-buhny | whirlywind | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bulngahn, burguwahm (?) | summer | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| buluhlmang, bulwang, buhwulmang, buwulmang | whirlwind | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| buluny-buluhny | cloud, cumulus ; rain cloud ; cloud, rain | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bumay | flat | natural_environment | Lower Richmond, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bunbar | beach ; sea | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bundar | frost ; ice | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bungbi | frost | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| burgar | beach ; sea | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| burgar, burugar | sea | natural_environment | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| burginy | wind | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| burginy waring | winds, winter ; winter winds | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| burgu | almost (?) | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| burin (bundin?), bandahn | stone | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| burugar | sea ; beach ; coast | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| buruhl | mountain (main range or peak) | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| buwiny | bubble | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| buwiyan | wind ; breeze | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| buyan-buyehn | whirlwind | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] |
