Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
Capricious, promiscuous, someone who flits from one partner to the next.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Slope.
Wumirri Headword: 
ngingini
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Coolamon, bark container for carrying things.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Season name: that time during the build up, when there is very high humidity but no rain, and heat shimmer is visible during the hottest part of the day.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Sorrycuts', cuts made to the body during the process of bereavement.
Word Class: 
particle
Meaning:
How about it?, how's it going? This particle usually precedes questions, expresses concern for the addressee, and brings a polite feeling to the question.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngunu? Wetimbi ta kinyi?
How about this? Is this OK?
Kurungurr Example:
Ngunu, dengini yubu yirim?
So, are you feeling OK?
Wumirri Headword: 
wadeninggi
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Tomorrow.
Kurungurr Example:
Wadeninggi pe ngambani.
We'll go tomorrow then.
Wumirri Headword: 
wadeninggi mewagarri
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Day after tomorrow.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Gutta Percha tree.
Wumirri Headword: 
ngurgarrfuru
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Foreskin.
Wumirri Headword: 
nguru du
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Touch someone's genitals, stimulate someone sexually with your hand.
Wumirri Headword: 
nguru lek
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
weyim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Lick someone's genitals, stimulate someone sexually with your tongue.
Kurungurr Example:
Dingingngi ngurilek.
She fellated me.
diwem
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Lick one's own crotch.
Kurungurr Example:
Wuwu yaga diwe ngurilek dini tye.
The dog was licking its crotch.
Wumirri Headword: 
nguru waty
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Have sex with someone.
Kurungurr Example:
Nganyi nguriwaty ngini.
I want to have sex with you.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Ejaculate, 'come' (of a man).
Kurungurr Example:
Ngaganim nguriwuty nimbi, ngaganim tu ngirrngirr.
After I ejaculate, then I fall asleep.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Subincised penis, a 'whistle cock'.
Word Class: 
demonstrative
Meaning:
Initiate, a young boy being 'walked around' in the last stages before being circumcised.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Smegma, secretion under the foreskin, 'cheese'.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Spear, small canegrass shafted spear for fighting.
Word Class: 
coverb
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Snore, make a snuffly snoring soud as you sleep.
Wumirri Headword: 
angirri
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Emu.
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
ngurrputyputy
Word Class: 
coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Hunt something away, drive out something.
Kurungurr Example:
Yewirr ninggi wuni ngurrputyputy tye yedi, teful pefi wudini madififili tye, e yerrtyagani wupun fimewuty.
He drove them away with a stick, tipped over all the tables, and spilled everything everywhere.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Glans penis, head of a penis.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Needle.
Kurungurr Example:
Nilng pagu! Turety ngini nga batybity.
Give me the needle! I'm making a dress.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
skin name
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Stick with a forked hook at one end for carrying fish.
Word Class: 
particle
Meaning:
And then, and also. This particle functions as a connector of clauses or nouns. It most frequently occurs in long lists, and reminds the addresee that what follows is more of the same list.
Kurungurr Example:
Amatyi, gagu wirritywirrity, awanggi, karrwakkarrwak, gagu mentyenimba, budenggu, afiwurr, gagu lion, tiger, elephant, gagu abatymirri, eperrperr, gagu awirrfirr. Ninde aditymadi, gagu adityibi, emen'giny, gagu pultyerrk.
(At Melbourne Zoo) there were kangaroos, lorikeets, crows, kookaburras, diving shags, Little pied cormorants, Great cormorants, lions, tigers, elephants, black ducks, Burdekin ducks, whistle ducks. And also there were pygmy geese, bandicoots, goannas and eagles.
Word Class: 
particle
Meaning:
Even though, despite. This particle occurs at the beginning of a clause, setting up some proposition, which is then contradicted. This could be explicated as 'Even though X would lead you to assume Y, actually Z is the case'. Ninggi introduces proposition X.
Kurungurr Example:
Ninggi mani yaringngi fime, minbe ngaganim.
Even though you gave me the money (to go), I'm not going.
Kurungurr Example:
Ninggi tyawurru dam fisul, ep nginimem bulbulfi.
Even though the sun's only just up, it's already hot.
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Really late at night.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Escarpment, high country on top of the escarpment characterised by sandstone and spinifex.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dagan
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Fold something, bend something as you would your knees (eg. fold up a blanket).
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
demen
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Bend at the knees, be kneeling.
Kurungurr Example:
Deninytyi nyinyi yemen ninyityipal.
You are kneeling down.
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Fold something up.
Kurungurr Example:
Musyulng wupun ninytyipal.
She folded the swag over.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Position yourself so that the calf of one leg rests on the thigh of the other leg, sit 'number 4 style'.
wibem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Lie down 'number 4 style', lie with the knee of one leg raised, and with the calf of the other leg resting on the raised thigh.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Group (eg. of kids), in a group, bunched together.
Kurungurr Example:
Awapurrpurrk ninytyilele syerri kibem miyi ngini wupunbirr fige.
The kids rushed off in a group, happy to get the fruit.
Wumirri Headword: 
ninytyisyawuni
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Patella, kneebone.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
People or things left behind when someone dies.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Bundle, a wrapped up package.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tobacco plant, tobacco prepared for smoking.
Word Class: 
nominal as coverb
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Steal.
Kurungurr Example:
Kenenawa wirringe nunbime tye nginde.
Someone's been stealing from me.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Sexual misbehaviour.
Wumirri Headword: 
nyinnendi
Word Class: 
demonstrative
Meaning:
That same one, that same thing.
Kurungurr Example:
Gagu nyindeti buliki, minde tye wani lali.
That's the same cows, they haven't moved.
Word Class: 
demonstrative
Meaning:
That one.
Kurungurr Example:
Gagu nyinnin minde alalirr.
That particular animal is no good to eat.

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