Wp/nys/-up

Up is a Nyungar word. Up acts as suffix that appears at the end of many Nyungar place name sentences in the south west of Australia. When one is decoding the ancient place names of south western Australia the understanding and the use of the word up will be a useful tool for your work in cracking the codes and then creating the meaning of Nyungar place names. Up in Nyungar means place of.