Word Class: 
interjection
Meaning:
Go ahead, help yourself!
Kurungurr Example:
'Ti ngiwimbi tyerrkuduk wityi?' 'Ya mamaka yiwi kuduk'.
'Can I have a bit of your tea?' 'Yeah, go on and help yourself'.
Word Class: 
coverb
yenim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Farewell someone, say goodbye to someone.
Kurungurr Example:
Word Class: 
interjection
Meaning:
So be it!, that's it then!
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
manman
Word Class: 
coverb
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Crawl (of babies), move about doubled over (eg. as someone might to avoid being seen).
wibem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
*Belly crawl*, wriggle forward on stomach, elbows and knees.
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Flock, be in flight formation, be all in a group (of flying foxes, birds, etc.)
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Big high fluffy cloud formations. Cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. Clouds that 'look like sheep'.
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Monday.
Kurungurr Example:
Mandi kana, kuwul wannim.
It's Monday, so they're all off to school.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Initiate's caretaker, typically an uncle who sees an initiate through circumcision.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Mango.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Hole with only one porcupine living in it.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Poison, as used in sorcery.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Foreign, accented speech.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Wind, prevailing monsoonal wind that blows from the southeast.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
New.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Visiting, going places.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyamennapa marrgumarrgu ngini ngagadi tye.
I was just visiting.
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Before, earlier.
Kurungurr Example:
Marrguninggi ngemengen.
I came by earlier.
Wumirri Headword: 
tyimindirr
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Knife.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
Happy-go-lucky, an extroverted personality. Someone who talks and laughs a lot.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Big (of intestine only). See ngekin masyapu.
Word Class: 
coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Skin an animal, remove the skin from a carcass.
dagam
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Spread someone's legs apart.
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Slice something open.
Kurungurr Example:
Watermelon yu mata !
Slice open that watermelon !
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
matati
Meaning:
Salt something, preserve something by rubbing salt into it.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Plant species (said to be the 'brother' of migenbi).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Ironwood tree.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Cock rag', clothing worn around loins by men.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Wild, uncivilised, 'myall'.
Kurungurr Example:
Winyerrem mayawul napa.
They're all completely wild!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'No number', as a call in card games. A valueless card.
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
'Nothing weeks'. The weeks between fortnightly pension payments.
Kurungurr Example:
Maylawik wurru, gagu fifty yangi fime?
It's 'nothing week', can you give me fifty?
Word Class: 
bodypart as coverb
dinyinggin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Look at what someone has in their hand.
Kurungurr Example:
Minde yinyirringi me!
Don't look at what's in my hand!
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Help someone, give them a hand.
Kurungurr Example:
Yangi me wityi!
Give me a hand!
diwem
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Dead, be dead.
Kurungurr Example:
Manguyawu nimbi diwem me.
He's dead from sorcery.
mem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Lose something, leave something behind.
Kurungurr Example:
Nayf kide nawa ngim me?
Where could I have left that knife?
dinyerrem
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Look at what's in your own hand, peep inside your closed fist.
bengim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Make a contribution, chip in, help someone out by giving a little.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyilfa yebing ngi me ngunu ngebi derripek ngini
Give me a contribution of silver, I'm building up enough for a beer.
wudem
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Emptyhanded, be emptyhanded.
Kurungurr Example:
Wudem me yenim.
He's the only one not carrying anything.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dagan
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Set foot in someone else's country.
Kurungurr Example:
Derrigidi ngerim ngananyi medu ngini.
I'd like to set foot in your country.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Tangled, be wildly tangled (of hair).
Kurungurr Example:
Meyim mefifityi nginde.
My hair's gone all tangly on me.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
bengin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Pass something on to someone.
Kurungurr Example:
Ya nem nimbi ngarim fime, epe wunipirri kana bengim megat wayeyi.
Hey I loaned him that (jumper), but he's passed it on to someone else.
bengim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Make a pass to another player in a game, pass a football.
Kurungurr Example:
Yebingindi megat pagu!
Pass it to me!
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
daran
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Swap something between people.
Kurungurr Example:
Piwari warranggi meket.
They swapped names.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Give someone a hand to carry things.
Kurungurr Example:
Ya, yangi meket!
Hey, give me a hand!
bengim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Fall from a tree (eg. of fruit).
dingim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Bite your way loose, cut free from the grip of someone's hand by using your teeth.
Kurungurr Example:
Malarrgu dingingngi meket.
The turtle cut itself free of my hand (ie. bit through the line and escaped).
dingim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Bite someone's hand (eg. of a dog).
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
yetyin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Cut your hand.
Kurungurr Example:
Gawanyi mesi!
Look out, or the blade will cut your hand!
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Wash someone's hand.
Kurungurr Example:
Yungi mesyi pagu.
Can you wash my hand for me.
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
me syisyirr
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Extinguish something by hand (eg. switch off a light, stub out a cigarette)
Kurungurr Example:
Yemi mesyirr!
Turn the light out!
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Go out, extinguish, fade away.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngannime yenim fili, yenim mesyirr.
A star shot across the sky, then faded.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Extinguish something, switch something off using a tool (e.g switching off a motor using a key).
Kurungurr Example:
Ya mesyirr !
Switch it off !
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
me tutu
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
gawam
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Make a shooting noise.
Kurungurr Example:
Gawam metutu gaganim.
She's making a shooting noise.
wayim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Go off, make a bang (of a gun).
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
menggin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Believe someone, put your trust in something, pick up on something.
Kurungurr Example:
Apma yiwi, gagu wimingi mewa ngini.
Quiet, the fish are believing me (ie. the fish are taken in by me, they haven't twigged to the fact that I'm trying to catch them).
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Stay, be somewhere for a long time.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurwunnapa deti gupun mewaty gaganim. Dede errike nawa, madewetimbi dini tye.
She's been there for a while now. How long's she going to stay, it's been a long time.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
daram
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Dilly dally, keep to-ing and fro-ing, be running around without doing anything.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Pick up all of something.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngeme mewurity tye walipan.
I picked up the whole pile of clothes.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
webem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Fall down, of deciduous leaves.
Kurungurr Example:
Miringgi bengim meyerr kana.
It's leaf falling time now.
Word Class: 
noun prefix
Meaning:
Number of days. This prefix attaches to a numeral X, to mean 'for X number of days'.
Kurungurr Example:
Dede wuni mefagarri ngani tu ngini.
I'll stop there for two days.
Kurungurr Example:
Mewagarri ngi pe Sydney.
I'll just be in staying in Sydney for two days.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
nominal as coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Flatten something, make something flat.
Kurungurr Example:
Lawa ngerim melpe, nganam misyinkuli yenggi.
I spread the dough out flat, and dropped it onto the coals.
yetyin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Squash something flat by sitting on it.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurkerre yenim derriwap yetyin melpe perikut.
This fat woman sat on the pannikin and squashed it.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
yenim
Word Class:

phrasal verb

Meaning:
Flatnosed, be flat nosed, have a squished nose.
Word Class: 
place noun
Meaning:
Side by side.
Kurungurr Example:
Melpemelpe nganniny tyerr, ngiddinge nganderri tye.
We halted side by side, standing there (on the escalators).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Flat arsed'.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Flat nosed'.
Word Class: 
simple verb tr
Meaning:
Do something.
Kurungurr Example:
Wananggal ityi membi?
What did the doctor do to you?
Meaning:
Say something.
Kurungurr Example:
Wananggal ityi membi?
What did the doctor say to you?
Meaning:
Happen, occur.
Kurungurr Example:
Ityi mem nimbi?
What has happened?
Meaning:
Call someone a particular kinterm.
Kurungurr Example:
Ityi ngiminge?
What kinterm do I call her?
Meaning:
Think, have a thought.
Kurungurr Example:
Ityi yim?
What do you think?

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