NGAN'GI LANGUAGE

dem

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Meaning:

Break something, break into a building.

Kurungurr Example:

Werringgi pal tuwa nide.

Those two broke into the store.

wudupun

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Meaning:

Smile at someone.

weyim

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Have dependants, have children or pets.

yenim

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Meaning:

Broken, be broken.

Kurungurr Example:

wim

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Meaning:

Get yourself into trouble.

palada

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Meaning:

Venereal disease, pox.

palak

Kurungurr Reduplication:

papalak

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mem

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Meaning:

Tired, be tired, be lazy.

Kurungurr Example:

Palak ngim wurru!

I'm so tired!

dim

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Meaning:

Shit, fart.

Kurungurr Example:

Kinyi amatyi ngekin mimarrgu dim palak.
.

A kangaroo has dropped a fresh shit here.

dem

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Meaning:

Drop something, lose something.

Kurungurr Example:

Wawetimuy yenim wurrimuy ngemi palak nana.

This little boy is afraid that I will drop him.

yenim

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Meaning:

Lost, be dropped, be lost.

Kurungurr Example:

Gagu ngayi kidenawa yenim palak.

My wallet is lying somewhere dropped.

yetyin

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Meaning:

Lose something.

wupun

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Meaning:

Drop something, make something drop by swinging at it (eg. dislodge fruit with a stick).

wudupun

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Meaning:

Move something so that it falls, cause something to drop.

Kurungurr Example:

Minde yewirr wurru, wundeyirre wudupun palak.

It's not here, (the jolting of the car) must have caused it to fall out back there.

palakpalak ... muy

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mem

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Meaning:

Blink your eyes.

Kurungurr Example:

Papalak memmuy yenim.

He's always blinking his eyes.

palamurri

Wumirri Headword:

palamurru

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Meaning:

Clapping sticks, sticks used as instruments in accompanying a didjeridu.

palat

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dagum

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Meaning:

Overtake someone.

palayin

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Meaning:

Fire sticks. Two sticks, ideally Premna acuminata, which can be used to make fire.

Kurungurr Example:

Palayin ngarrim pup, wayin tittit yenggitawan. Yerrmadi wibem yerrganggi ninggi ngarrim pup.

We rub the firesticks till smoke starts. The bottom stick lies underneath, and we rub with the upright top stick.

palmarrang

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Meaning:

Headdress in the shape of a cross with spiderweb type cross bits, stuck with feathers. This is held at back of head in dancing in the Yurami style from Western Australia.

palpilngini

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adjectival noun

Meaning:

Tired, a tired person. Can also imply a lazy person.

panana

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Meaning:

Banana.

panbawuk

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Meaning:

Mould, calcification, the kind of residue that attaches to cups, kettles, etc.

Panggarramer

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placename

panmi

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bodypart as coverb

bengin

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Meaning:

Chop out the 'crotch' of something (eg. chop out the fleshy heart of a palm tree).

Kurungurr Example:

Tyemerrmerr bengingngindi panmi.

He chopped out a Cabbage Palm heart for me.

panmi lek

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weyim

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Meaning:

Perform cunnilingus, perform oral sex on a woman, lick a woman's genitals.

Kurungurr Example:

Dingingngi panmilek.

He licked me.

panmi ta

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dem

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Meaning:

Open up the crotch of a carcass, break the crotch open to gut a body.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngemi panmita angani.

I broke the goose carcass open from the crotch.

dim

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Meaning:

Radiating, be radiating (of rays of the sun), project outwards radially.

Kurungurr Example:

Mirri dim panmita.

The sun's rays are radiating out.

panmi tu

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wudupun

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Meaning:

Ejaculate.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngudupun panmitu ngilmil.

I ejaculated.

panmi waga

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daram

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Meaning:

Paddle oneself along lying on a log.

pap

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wudupun

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Meaning:

Raise up, push up, cause something to be raised
up off the ground.

Kurungurr Example:

Nganam baty nimbi, tyusuk ngim, ngudupun pap defirr, minde tyusuk ngini.

If you tread on something, and your foot hurts, raise it up and it won't hurt (so much).

yenim

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Meaning:

Climb up (eg. a tree), rise up (of the tide).

Kurungurr Example:

Ngaganim pap debiwerri ngayi ngimingin wa.

I climbed up and retrieved my pants.

yenim

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Meaning:

Available, be on the shelves, be in stock (of goods in a shop).

Kurungurr Example:

Yenim pap kana, syiri damuy?

Are shotgun cartridges in stock yet?

papalak ... muy

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mem

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Meaning:

Wink your eye.

Kurungurr Example:

Papalak mengngindi muy damuy.

He winked his eye at me.

parra

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Meaning:

Butter.

Kurungurr Example:

Parra pagu!

Pass the butter!

parradap parradap

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sound noun

Meaning:

Sound of a horse galloping.

parrikut

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Meaning:

Billycan; any tin container which can be used to boil water.

parrng

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dim

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Meaning:

Snore, give a loud snore.

Kurungurr Example:

Dim parrng dim.

He's snoring.

parrudu

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Meaning:

Potato.

pasyanggu

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Meaning:

Bitter tasting.

pasyigil

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Meaning:

Bicycle.

Kurungurr Example:

Pasyigil dagam fityi yirripin.

He's peddling a bike along.

pat

Kurungurr Reduplication:

patpit

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yenim

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Meaning:

Win a prize (eg. money), come first in a race.

Kurungurr Example:

Kene yenim pat gagu?

Who won the money?

dem

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Meaning:

Arise, get up and go, set off, take off (of a plane).

Kurungurr Example:

Ngemi pat ngini Darwin nide pefi.

I'm going to fly off to Darwin.

wudupun

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Meaning:

Build a shade structure, put up roofing, tack up shadecloth.

pawal

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dangim

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Meaning:

Spear something, pierce the surface of something, insert a pointed instrument into something .

Kurungurr Example:

Afungi dangingngi pawal.

A mosquito bit me.

dangim

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Meaning:

Grow pointy things out of your body at puberty, have body hair or facial hair pierce through your skin, have breasts 'poke' out of your chest. (Lit: be speared by hairs or breasts).

Kurungurr Example:

Tyerrwasan dangingngipawal kana.

I've got whiskers now. (lit. speared by whiskers)

pawul

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Meaning:

Chicken.

pawuty

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Meaning:

Purse, wallet.

Kurungurr Example:

Ya, pawuty ngayi kide?

Hey, where's my purse?

payfay

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Meaning:

Swings, playground equipment.

Kurungurr Example:

Wuni yani madiwirri payfay nide!

Go there and play on the swings!

pefik

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wayim

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Meaning:

Hot, be really hot (of rocks or antbed pieces heated in a fire).

pek

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dangim

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Meaning:

Drip liquid onto something, make something dribble, apply paint in single dots with your fingertip.

Kurungurr Example:

Fetyeny dangim pek gagu angini nimbi.

The meat is dripping blood.

wudupun

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Meaning:

Place something upright in the ground, to erect some structure that stands upright. eg. build a fence (a series of upright posts).

Kurungurr Example:

Wuddupun pek yewirr.

They're building a fence.

wupun

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Meaning:

Paint something by slapping with an open hand, slap your hand down to leave handprints.

webem

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Meaning:

Drop two things one on top of the other, mix things together.

Kurungurr Example:

Bafun peke ngebi pek ngini.

I'll mix together tobacco and ash.

wudem

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Meaning:

Fall into an upright position, place yourself into an upright position.

wayim

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Meaning:

Drip, for heat to melt something or make something dribble.

daram

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Meaning:

Paint dots on yourself (eg. as in painting up your body for ceremony).

peke

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Meaning:

Cigarette, tobacco.

Kurungurr Example:

Peke yemingindi fityi pagu, were.

Roll me a smoke will you, brother.

pelel

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dem

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Meaning:

Clatter, make a clattering noise.

Kurungurr Example:

Yerim pelel yaganim firrfirr ge minde ngaganin tu.

You're making so much noise I can't sleep.

Kurungurr Example:

Amurri ngerim pelel.

I found eggs (eg. I located turtle eggs because of the clattering sound when my stick hits them).

pelk

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Meaning:

Belt (for trousers).

Pelweni

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placename

penembe

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Meaning:

Fresh water mussels.

penyburrk

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Meaning:

Rust.

perk ... nguri

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mem

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Meaning:

Hassle someone to include you, insist on being taken along.

Kurungurr Example:

Ya perk mengngindi nguri, ngarrene wityi ta!

Hey, she won't let me go without her, I'll have to just take her!

perperk ... muy

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mem

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Meaning:

Have wrinkled skin.

perperkngini

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Meaning:

Soft, viscous (eg. of oil), malleable (eg. of dough).

perperknginityerr

Wumirri Headword:

detyerrperperkngini

Word Class:

adjectival noun

Meaning:

Accented speech, a person with a thick foreign accent.

perpirk

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dangim

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Meaning:

Mash something, pound food (eg. yams).

Kurungurr Example:

Bama ninggi ya perpirk!

Pound it with a yam club!

dem

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Meaning:

Crumble something in your fingers.

dagan

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Meaning:

Leave footprints on the ground.

Kurungurr Example:

Ya kene kinyi dagan perpirk?

Hey, who left these tracks here?

menggin

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Meaning:

Attach things to the wall (eg. notices on noticeboard).

mem

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Meaning:

Make tracks, leave footprints.

perrekwin

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Meaning:

'Pair of queens', as a call in card games.

Perreme

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placename

perresyut

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Meaning:

'Pair of aces', as a call in card games.

perrety

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mem

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