Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
wibem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Hang in suspension (like smoke in the air).
Kurungurr Example:
Yenggitawan wiben tittitmadi.
There's smoke hanging in the air.
Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Trail something from a 'head', be suspended at the 'head' of something.
Kurungurr Example:

W 3 Girribem tittit purr.

Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Trail something from a 'bum', have a plume of something coming from the tail end of something.
Kurungurr Example:

W 3 Girribem tittit purr.

Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Trail something from a 'nose'.
Kurungurr Example:

W 3 Girribem tittit purr.

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Troubled, strife-torn, characterised by fighting and arguments (of a place).
Kurungurr Example:
Dede kinyi trafulmendimendi, ngani fili kana ngini.
This place is full of trouble, I'm gonna leave.
Wumirri Headword: 
du
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
tutu
Wumirri Reduplication: 
tudu
Word Class: 
coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Slice something, slash something with a knife, carve something.
Kurungurr Example:
Gagu kinyi yungindi tu pagu!
Can you slice this meat up for me!
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Lie down, sleep, camp a night.
Kurungurr Example:
Wawuni wa yenin tutu.
That bloke's always sleeping.
beyim
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Put on weight, fill out.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Duck your head down.
Kurungurr Example:
Yani tu depi!
Duck your head !
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Dream of something, have a dream.
Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Punctured, be punctured, be flat (of anything inflatable, like a tyre, etc.).
Kurungurr Example:
Aya, tyre kinyi tu mem tyirri!
Hey, this tyre's flat!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Twenty cents, a twenty cent piece.
Kurungurr Example:
Tufup pagu, akinyi nawa ngebi derripek ngini.
Give me twenty cents, so I can add it to this money (to make up the right amount).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Stockman, a person who works with cattle and horses.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Doctor.
Kurungurr Example:
Tukta detyengi wani tyerr ngini.
The doctor is coming today.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Stockyard.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Doll.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Bumpy, corrugated, (of roads).
Wumirri Headword: 
dum
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
tuntum
Wumirri Reduplication: 
dundum
Word Class: 
coverb
dim
Word Class:

impersonal verb

Meaning:
Feel relieved.
Kurungurr Example:
Dege dingngindi tum.
I feel relieved.
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Sink in water
Kurungurr Example:
Din tum.
He's sinking.
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Bury something, submerge something.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngembi mitum nime ngini.
We're going to bury it.
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Wash something away, bury something under a slide of mud or floodwater.
Kurungurr Example:
Kuri dinyinggul wupun pi tum wembem ngayi.
The flood waters washed away my house.
demen
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Bury yourself, submerge yourself under water.
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Sink down under water.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Go down, sink.
dagan
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Catch someone by surprise, catch someone off guard.
Kurungurr Example:
Wanunbime dagan ne dum.
He caught the burglar by surprise.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Goanna hole that is occupied (ie. the hole entrance has been blocked up by the goanna resting inside).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Secret, gossip.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Two pairs', as a call in card games.
Word Class: 
coverb
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Drunk, be drunk.
Kurungurr Example:
Turang mem wurru.
He's drunk.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Drunks, alcoholics.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyurayfa kinyi waturangginmen wurru. Minde nana gawamdirr Tawun pefi.
This driver is drunk. He won't be able to take you to Darwin.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Driver.
Kurungurr Example:
Turayfa kene?
Who's the driver?
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Trousers.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Dress, frock.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Torch.
Kurungurr Example:
Tut kinyi pagu gimi ya fufu.
Shine the torch this way!
Wumirri Headword: 
birrbirrmuy
Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
Blunt (of knives, etc.).
Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Squeeze or pinch something with your fingers.
Kurungurr Example:
Finy yemingi tutu, ngunu?
Squeeze this pimple for me, will you?
demem
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Squeeze or pinch yourself with your fingers.
Kurungurr Example:
Membirr ngini demeny tyitutu.
She's expressing milk by hand for the baby.
yentyin
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Be crushed, be broken by compression.
Kurungurr Example:
Amurri yaga yentyin tutu.
These eggs are broken.
Meaning:
Make yourself fart
Word Class: 
adverb
Meaning:
Peacefully, calmly, sensibly.
Kurungurr Example:
Tutungini wurru ngirrimbi, minde gi.
We're here to talk to you peacefully, we don't want to argue.
Kurungurr Example:
Minde tye pagu tutungini wirrimngirr.
He wasn't looking peacefully at us.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Shop, store.
Kurungurr Example:
Tuwa ngaganim.
I'm going to the shop.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Playing card numbered 'two'.
Word Class: 
coverb
wudupun
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Float, drift (as of leaves in a breeze).
Kurungurr Example:
Miringgi wurrupun tuwul marrawuk wibem fuyfuy.
Leaves are floating around, blowing in the wind.
wudupun
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Travel around, be always on the move.
Kurungurr Example:
Musari gimi wanayerri, wudupun tuwul kirri yirripin
He should slow down, he's always travelling around.
Word Class: 
skin name
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Heavy, fast drinking; drinking to get drunk as quickly as possible.
Word Class: 
skin name
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Spades', as one of the four suits in playing cards.
Word Class: 
kinterm
Meaning:
Mother's father, daughter's son.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Stones used for rain making.
Word Class: 
interrogative
Meaning:
What?
Kurungurr Example:
Tyagani piwari nyinyi?
What's your name?
Kurungurr Example:
Yerr kinyi tyagani?
What's this thing?
Wumirri Headword: 
tyaganne
Word Class: 
interrogative
Meaning:
For what purpose? For what reason?
Kurungurr Example:
Tyagani ngini yirribem fili kinyi?
What are you hanging around here for?
Word Class: 
indefinite pronoun
Meaning:
Whatever, something or other.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyagannawa memngiti
Something's happened to me.
Word Class: 
indefinite pronoun
Meaning:
From something or other, because of something.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyagannimbi dege wulek ngaganim.
Something's made me feel crook in the guts.
Word Class: 
interrogative
Meaning:
Using what?
Kurungurr Example:
Tyaganninggi yariny syibang?
What did you use to pierce his nose?
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
tyatyalak
Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Touch something soft, feel something to be soft.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngerim tyatyalak, ep gagu dim!
It feels soft, there might be some animal inside!
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Be upright, stand upright.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngayi ngirribem tyalak kinyi.
I'm standing here.
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Knock something over onto something soft (eg. push someone over onto a mattress, or soft grass, etc).
dangin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Feel something to be soft, poke a stick into a hole and feel something soft (ie. the softness that might indicate an animal rather than a rock).
wuden
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Feel good in your body, feel pleasure at being somewhere as a bodily sensation (feel soft all over).
Kurungurr Example:
Yubu napa dengini ngudeny tyalak! Tyatyalak ngini yubu napa!
Gee, I feel so soft in my body! This soft feeling is great!
dinyinggin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Stand up and look at something.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyagani wuni ginyinggin tyalak girribem?
What's she standing up looking at?
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tree orchid.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Jealous.
Kurungurr Example:
Dinyingginngi tisit tyality wurru.
She's jealous of me.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Jealous bugger', someone consumed by jealousy.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngayim kinda wiri yedi ngayim watyalitypaga wurru.
Let her stay here because her husband is a jealous bugger.
Word Class: 
skin name
Word Class: 
particle
Meaning:
That's it, nothing special, no reason,
nothing important. This particle is typically added to the end of some statement. Its function is to downplay the significance of what is said, suggesting that it is unimportant and not very interesting. People often tag it on at the end of telling a story.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngayim napa wudupungngi ge yenim, tyaminnapa!
She feeds and looks after me, that's all.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyaminnapa perrety meny.
He just died (there were no suspicious circumstances).
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
bengin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Punch someone in the cheek.
Kurungurr Example:
Bengingngi tyamulilirr
He punched me in the cheek.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Young male 'Antilopine Wallaroo'.
Word Class: 
skin name
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Frothy, bubbly, sudsy.

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