NGAN'GI LANGUAGE

Meaning:

Three or more people who call each other 'sister'.

winnyerrem pugali

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Meaning:

Three or more people who call each other 'cousin'.

winnyerrem were

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Meaning:

Three or more people who call each other 'brother'.

winnyerrenggu ngenike

Wumirri Headword:

winnyerrenggu ngeningge

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Meaning:

Two people who call each other 'sister'.

winnyerrenggu pugali

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Meaning:

Two people who call each other 'cousin'.

winnyerrenggu were

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Meaning:

Two people who call each other 'brother'.

winy

Kurungurr Reduplication:

winyin

Word Class:

mem

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verb intr

Meaning:

Whistle.

Kurungurr Example:

Awapurrpurrk nyine wannam felfil, winy wirrminynge, mudiga yeniny tyerr.

The kids all raced out then and whistled at her, so she pulled the car to a halt.

dim

Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:

Whistle.

wirirr

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Meaning:

Charcoal, black ash (of grasses etc.).

wirirr marrgu

Word Class:

time noun

Meaning:

Season name: based on speargrass cycle. That time early in the dry season when grass is being burnt off and much of the country is black and new shoots are appearing everywhere.

wirr

Wumirri Headword:

wurr

Kurungurr Reduplication:

wirrwirr

Wumirri Reduplication:

wirrsirr

Word Class:

wudupun

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Meaning:

Put something inside something else.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngatya ngayi wudupungngi wirr kuwul.

My father put me in school.

disyen

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Meaning:

Pull something out from its position inside something else.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngimbisye wirr nime ngini.

We're all going to pull it out.

wudem

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reflexive verb

Meaning:

Pierce yourself, place something inside part of your body.

Kurungurr Example:

Nguden tyeri wirr.

I pierced my ear.

yenim

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verb intr

Meaning:

Go into something, move inside a building or a space.

webem

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Meaning:

Bash something into something else.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngebe wirrwirr tye neyl.

I was bashing nails in.

wirribem

Word Class:

simple verb intr

Meaning:

Stand, to be in a standing posture.

Kurungurr Example:

Nem peyita wirringe tye.

He was already standing there.

Meaning:

Be, exist , to live in a place, to be in a place.

wirrifi

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Meaning:

'Shitwood' tree.

wirrike

Wumirri Headword:

wurruke

Word Class:

pronoun

Meaning:

'You two', a cover term of address used to call out to two people who, as individuals, are in different relationships to you, so no single term of address refers to both of them.

wirrike nime

Wumirri Headword:

wurruke nime

Word Class:

pronoun

Meaning:

They three, them three (3rd person trial)

wirrim

Wumirri Headword:

wurrum

Word Class:

pronoun

Meaning:

'You' a term of address used by a man to call out to a single person of the same generation who is his sister.

wirritywirrity

Wumirri Headword:

werretywerrety

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Meaning:

Parrot and lorikeet, several species including cockatiel and rainbow lorikeet.

wityi

Wumirri Headword:

nuwurr

Word Class:

time noun

Meaning:

Short while, momentarily.

Kurungurr Example:

Kukuk wityi, dege ngani ngini.

Just wait up for a sec, I have to go to the toilet.

Kurungurr Example:

Wurruke yawamburrki nuwurr pe.

Take these two guys outside for a little while.

wu

Word Class:

wupun

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Meaning:

Spread things onto a surface (eg. spread butter on bread, paint something).

Kurungurr Example:

Nayip pagu parra ngini wu ngini purirri.

Give me a knife to spread butter on this bread.

dinem

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Meaning:

Burn feathers off a bird, burn a person's hair off.

Kurungurr Example:

Nginem wu wusye nem.

I burnt off his hair.

wudusyu

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Meaning:

Love song style, a variety of private love song sung to attract a partner.

wufity

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Meaning:

Office, community administration buildings.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngaganim wufity pefi.

I'm going to the office.

wugubat

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Meaning:

Walk.

Kurungurr Example:

Wugubat kinyi ka ngannim, tyigarrenyi pefi.

We're going for a walk down to red lily billabong.

wukukume

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Meaning:

One by one

Kurungurr Example:

Ngeme wurity tye wukukume.

I picked them all up one at a time.

wukume

Wumirri Headword:

wunggume

Word Class:

demonstrative

Meaning:

Certain person, a particular thing.

Kurungurr Example:

Yedi wukume menggengngindi.

This particular guy came over to me.

Kurungurr Example:

Mityity wurwunggume, kine yedi tye fepi minbadi, ngayim ninggi menyngiti...

That particular white woman, who used to live here at Peppimenarti, she told me....

wukwuk

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Meaning:

Owl, generic term for several species.

wul

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weben

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