NGAN'GI LANGUAGE

Meaning:

Fish, generic term for any kind of fish.

pit

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wupun

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Meaning:

Cover something over, spread a layer or film over something.

Kurungurr Example:

Murriga kinyi wupun pit bafun.

This car is covered with a film of ash.

pitya

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Meaning:

Movies, photos, pictures.

Kurungurr Example:

Pitya kinyi yerr minde dengini wurru!

This movie is boring!

pityiwakaty

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Meaning:

Menses onset, and ceremony associated with a woman's first period.

piwari

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Meaning:

Name, a person's name.

Kurungurr Example:

Piwari nem wuni kene?

What's the name of that guy?

piwasiwasi

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Meaning:

Use up too much stuff, waste things, gobble up (food).

Kurungurr Example:

Minde piwasiwasi yani!

Don't just gobble it up!

platypaga

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Meaning:

Show-off, someone who likes to perform, someone who likes to be stylish.

plenggit

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Meaning:

Blanket.

plitybuy

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Meaning:

Tracker, a police aide.

plityka

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Meaning:

Police car, paddywagon.

Kurungurr Example:

Were ngayi wamumu ninggi dentip, i pilityka nide dagam madi kuli.

The police man came and caught my brother and put him in the police car.

plitymin

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Meaning:

Policeman.

pranben

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Meaning:

Fryingpan.

pudip

Wumirri Headword:

pudup

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wayim

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impersonal verb

Meaning:

Melt, be melted by the heat of a fire.

Kurungurr Example:

Fwa wayim pudip kana.

The wax is melted now.

dinem

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Meaning:

Melt something, cause something to melt.

pudirrminytyi

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Meaning:

Coccyx, tailbone.

pufunyi

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Meaning:

Water-carrier, container made of paperbark.

pufuy

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interjection

Meaning:

Go away!, Piss off!

pugali

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Meaning:

Cross cousins. People in the same relationship to you as your mother's brother's kids, and your father's sister's kids.

Kurungurr Example:

Kala ngayi, were ngayim, membir nem, 'pugali' ngimbirr.

My mum's brother, his kids I call 'pugali'.

pul

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dem

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Meaning:

Wash something.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngayi pulit ngerim pul.

I wash the plates.

demen

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reflexive verb

Meaning:

Wash yourself.

webem

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Meaning:

Clear away clutter, clear scrub for a living space, make an open area.

Kurungurr Example:

Bengim pul yenim bulldozer ninggi.

He's clearing (the trees) away with a bulldozer.

wayim

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Meaning:

Burn, clean up country by burning, open up space (of fire).

Kurungurr Example:

Yenggi wayim pul pagu tye yedi drum bengingket dede kinyi.

The fire burned back here through the (petrol) drums.

Puleli

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placename

puliki

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Meaning:

Cattle, cow, bullock.

Kurungurr Example:

Murriga yerrkerre nyinde gaganim puliki werri.

There's a huge truck coming up, loaded with cattle.

Kurungurr Example:

Murriga yerrminbadi nyine gerrimbin puliki werre.

pulimity

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Meaning:

Underpants.

pulit

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Meaning:

Plate, food plate.

pulng

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Meaning:

Bottle.

pulpul

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wirribem

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Meaning:

Tracks, for there to be tracks around a burrow showing that it is in use.

Kurungurr Example:

Wirrbem pulpul, ep dingem madi merriny.

There's tracks going in and out, it must be inside.

pulpul muy

Word Class:

coverb + bodypart

dim

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phrasal verb intr

Meaning:

Nuisance, be a nuisance, humbug, mess about.

Kurungurr Example:

Minde pulpulmuy yiwi yerrngayi!

Don't mess around with my things!

yenim

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phrasal verb intr

Meaning:

Nuisance, be a nuisance, habitually annoy people.

Kurungurr Example:

Wapulpulmuy yedi tye.

He was always a pest.

pulpulgarri

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Meaning:

Doesn't. CHECK

pultyerrk

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Meaning:

Wedgetailed eagle.

pulurrk

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Meaning:

Shield.

pun

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Meaning:

Spoon.

Kurungurr Example:

Pun yerrngayi kide.

Where's my spoon.

punderri

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Meaning:

Grandmother's country. The country that your maternal grandmother inherited from her father.

Kurungurr Example:

Rak Malfiyin punderri ngayi napa.

That Malfiyin's my grandmother's country.

pup

Kurungurr Reduplication:

puppup

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wudupun

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Meaning:

Light a fire, build up a fire.

Kurungurr Example:

Yenggi wudupun pup.

She's lighting a fire.

dim

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Meaning:

Rub firesticks together.

Kurungurr Example:

Palayin ngirim puppup ngirim yenggi ngini.

I'm rubbing up firesticks for a fire.

dangim

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Meaning:

Rub firesticks together.

Kurungurr Example:

Lurity ngarimpup yenggi tawan wanityerr ngini.

Rub hard to make it smoke.

diwem

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Meaning:

Carry someone/something on your shoulder.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngiwe tapup ngini data ngayi nide.

(I picked it up) and put it on my shoulders.

dingim

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Meaning:

Put something down, lay something on the ground.

Kurungurr Example:

Merrepen ngerim way nimbi, fiti nide ngem pup.

When I've twisted the sand palm fibre, I lay it down in the sun to dry.

diwen

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Meaning:

Stop an action, solve an issue.

Kurungurr Example:

Yiwe puy tyamen napa.

Stop right there!

dingim

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Meaning:

Plant things, place plants in the ground.

Kurungurr Example:

Yerrdamuy ngem pup, meringgi ngini.

I planted some seedlings, for shade.

yenim

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Meaning:

Burn country, move around country firing it.

Kurungurr Example:

Dede kinyi minde tye kene wani puppup.

No-one's been burning this country properly.

pupurity derri

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Meaning:

Flat topped hill. Mesa formation.

pupurityfiny

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Meaning:

Taste funny, the taste of something that is not quite right (fruit overripe, tobacco a bit stale, meat a bit off, etc.).

pupuritygarri

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Meaning:

Slippery (of a log, pole, etc).

pupuritymuy

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Meaning:

Vain, thinking yourself to be beautiful.

Kurungurr Example:

Wurpupuritymuy wurru!

She loves herself!

purapakany

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Meaning:

'Four of a kind', as a call in card games.

puratyap

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Meaning:

'Price up' as a call in card games, indicating that the money required to meet a previous bid goes up with every round.

purirri

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Meaning:

Bread.

Kurungurr Example:

Purirri wityi yungindi.

Butter this bread for me.

purity

Kurungurr Reduplication:

pupurity

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yenim

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Meaning:

Hide, be in hiding.

Kurungurr Example:

Dede kinyi ngaganim lali yenim pupurity napandi.

Whenever I come round he's always hiding.

wudupun

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Meaning:

Put something away, place something out of sight.

Kurungurr Example:

Yudi pupurity ngini.

You're going to put it away.

wudupun

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Meaning:

Hide something.

Kurungurr Example:

Membirr watypela nimbi beyi baty, kala ninggi wudiniwirr pupurity, wamumu ngini wanniyirri yety.

When kids were born to white fathers, the mothers used to hide them because they were scared of the police.

dem

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Meaning:

Slip, lose your grip with your fingers.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngerim purity yewirr nimbi.

I slipped out of the tree.

yenim

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Meaning:

Play around, have 'a fling', have a lover on the side.

yenim

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Meaning:

Slip, slide, loose your footing.

purityge

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adverb

Meaning:

Give up, quit doing something.

Kurungurr Example:

Ngaty nguninge fifili tye purityge.

After a long time, I just gave up looking for her.

purr

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bodypart as coverb

dingim

Word Class:

impersonal verb

Meaning:

Feel the urge to poo.

Kurungurr Example:

Dingingngi purr.

I need to do a poo.

dem

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Meaning:

Own a pet, keep an animal.

Kurungurr Example:

Wumibe getyerim purr kana, yinyirri kerrety kana!

Now that you've got a puppy, you've got to look after it!

purr dep

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daram

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reflexive verb

Meaning:

Sit 'cowboy style', squatting on one heel with the other foot extended.

purr fuy

Kurungurr Reduplication:

purr fuyfuy

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dingim

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Meaning:

Make mouthwatering smells, cook up things that smell good.

Kurungurr Example:

Ya kene dingem purrfuy wirribem tyuptyup ayubu.

Hey, who's making that delicious soup smell.

dangim

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Meaning:

Wipe a child's bum.

Kurungurr Example:

Bingini wurru nga purrfuyfuy ngini.

His bum's all dirty, I'll have to wipe him up.

wudupun

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Meaning:

Smell good, give off a nice odour.

Kurungurr Example:

Kene gudupun purrfuy gaganim, yerrfiny yubu.

Who's that smelling good, it's nice perfume.

purr kek

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dangim

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Meaning:

Curse someone, put a curse on a person.

Kurungurr Example:

Nganyi purrkek ngini!

I'm going to curse you!

purr ket

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dem

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Meaning:

Finish something off, bring something to completion.

Kurungurr Example:

Yemi purrket.

Finish it off !

dem

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Meaning:

Stop doing something, quit work for the day.

Kurungurr Example:

Wurrkama ngerim purrket.

We stopped work.

purr pal

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dingim

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Meaning:

Praise someone.

Kurungurr Example:

Wurrkama yubu napa yenim ngem purrpal.

I praised him and told him he was working well.

purr susul

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wupun

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Meaning:

Dry out skin (of wind).

Kurungurr Example:

Marrawuk ninggi wupun purrsusul agarrfuri.

The wind has dried out my skin.

purr tittit

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win

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Meaning:

Brush dust off your bottom after sitting on the ground.

Kurungurr Example:

W 3 Girribem tittit purr.

purr tyap

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menggin

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Meaning:

Have something stuck in your bum.

Kurungurr Example:

Aya turety nyinyi mengginnyi purrtyap!

Hey, your dress is caught up your crack!

purr yer

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dem

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