B

ben

NOONGAR

light, daylight

ENGLISH

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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Ben, Bennan : Day (Nind 1831: 48)
Ben, bennan : Day (Jour) (Dumont D’Urville 1834: 3)
Djidar; Waulu; Bina. : Dawn, Of Morning (Moore 1842: 128)
pene : dawn; before the sun is up (Salvado 1851: 263)
banna : Day (Goldsworthy (Curr) 1886: 385)
benung : Day (Graham (Curr) 1886: 351)
pen, baneung : Light (Hossell, Knight & Spencer (Curr) 1886: 389)
beenar : Light (Knight (Curr) 1886: 333)
Beenungur : Light (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 16)
Bena : Daylight (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 14)
Bena : Dawn (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 9)
Benna : Daylight (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 16)
Benungan : Dawn (Kajaman; Bates XII 2B, 11: 13)
piän, piänaŋ : morning, daylight, tomorrow (Von Brandenstein 1988: 51)
bairnang, bernang : day (Douglas 1991: 19)
ben : light (Whitehurst 1992: 40)
ben : light (S) (Dench 1994: 181)
Bin a : Dawn (Richards 1994: 127)