NGAN'GI LANGUAGE

miwaga

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Meaning:

Withered old tuber.

miwangi

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Long yam species.

miwatypala

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Introduced vegetable foods (esp. flour and recently introduced Asian fruits).

miwelfirrmuy

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Edible tuber of plant (no common name known).

miwerrfilmuy

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Edible root of an unidentified vine.

miwerrmisye

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Red plum.

miwerrngari

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Plant species (unidentified).

miwisamuy

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White berry of Flueggea virosa.

miwugumuy

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Milk plum fruit.

Kurungurr Example:

Milalirr midamuy ya perpirk pepi ninggi i yusi waty.

miwulngini

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Lotus lily flower.

miwurrmarrmarr

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Tuber of Blechnum orientale.

miyerrkadi

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Peanut.

miyi

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Vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, all non-flesh food.

mudetyi

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'Big eye', lecherer, someone who stares too much.

Kurungurr Example:

Mudetyi! Tyagani yinyingginngi kerrety?

'Big eye'! What are you staring at me for?

mudirr

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Eyebrow and eyesocket area, the inset space that the eyeball is housed in.

mudityi

Wumirri Headword:

yawunggi

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Sweet grass.

Kurungurr Example:

Mudityi yerrlalirr. Kuri wani tyerr ngini webi tyerrfal ngini.

Mudityi is great to eat. It sprouts when the rain starts.

mudura

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Hair not long enough to tie up properly.

mufungandi

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Pitiful.

Kurungurr Example:

Ke mufungandi dangingngi gawu.

Poor thing, he's pitiful, I feel sorry for him.

muk

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Sore, cut, any break in the skin.

Kurungurr Example:

Defirr muk, minde nana ngani.

I've got a sore foot, I'm not going.

Kurungurr Example:

Defirr muk, minbe merrendi ngani.

mukuku

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Testicles.

mulfang

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nominal as coverb

wupun

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Sharpen something with a knife.

Kurungurr Example:

Pencil kinyi yungindi mulfang?

Sharpen this pencil for me, would you?

mulfangmuy

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'Pointy faced' (as of the face shape of a wallaby).

mulfangpurr

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'Pointy arsed', having a protruding anus, like the cloaca of kangaroos and wallabies.

mulfangtyerr

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'Pointy jawed', like a wallaby.

Mulingi

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mululumbu

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Prickly tree, thought to be introduced to the Daly region through trade from Kununurra way.

mulurru

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Cripple, crippled person.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngenike ngayi wurmulurru.

My sister is a cripple.

mumba

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Walking, travelling.

Kurungurr Example:

Mumba yedi leli tye.

He's gone off walking.

mumba ganggiderri

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Top road.

mumba girim mifili

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Messenger, person seen walking very fast as if with a message.

mumba madi

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Bottom road, the lower route.

mumbagen'ge

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Halfway (on a trip).

Kurungurr Example:

Munbagen'ge wirrin tyuk.

Halfway there they had a fight.

Mumbe

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mumu

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adjectival noun

Meaning:

Taboo, forbidden.

mundulk

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Protruding ankle bones on either side of the foot, that are the rounded ends of the tibia.

mundupan

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Bush cucumber.

munggun munggunnyi

Wumirri Headword:

pangun pangun

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Willy willy, whirlwind.

mungiyil

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Paddle.

Kurungurr Example:

Mungiyil kide?

Where is the paddle?

mungumunggi

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Shadow, reflection.

mununuk

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Reception group in ceremony. Some ceremonies involved a person being presented to a group. For example, a betrothed girl might be presented to a group of people including her promised husband and his relatives, or an initiate might be presented to his own family. These groups are mununuk.

muripi

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Pubic mound, 'mons veneris'.

murisye

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Pubic hair.

murriga

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Car, truck, ordinary vehicles.

Kurungurr Example:

Ya, murriga kinyi kene nem?

Hey, whose car is this?

murrikin

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adjectival noun

Meaning:

Shy, quiet type of person.

murrmurr

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Reed species found growing in rivers.

musyari

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Slow, slowly, softly.

Kurungurr Example:

Musyari pefi ngarim bang.

I poked it in slowly.

musyulng

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Swag.

muty

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Wild tobacco, bush tobacco.

muy

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Give out things, distribute things.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngemim muy wukukume

I gave them out, one at a time.

muy gi

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bodypart + coverb

dem

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Meaning:

Annoy someone, not get on with someone, rub someone up the wrong way.

Kurungurr Example:

Were nem deti denne muygi.

He doesn't even get on well with his own brother.

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