Word Class: 
coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Scrape the ground with your feet, as a dog does after pissing, or a crocodile does to cover up its eggs.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Bee species.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Happenstance, serendipity, something just falls into your lap.
Kurungurr Example:
Kide nimbi tyet yibem fayam? Aya, wakawaka kinyi ngeben derridu.
'Where'd you get that shirt from?' 'Oh, I just came across it somewhere'.
Word Class: 
adverb
Meaning:
Finished, completely.
Wumirri Headword: 
wakurutyerr
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Liar, someone who tells lies.
Word Class: 
sound noun
Meaning:
Sound made by a crow.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Mangrove spear type.
Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Shake something with your hands.
Kurungurr Example:
Yemi bawalal miyi ngini!
Shake the branch to get the fruit!
dagan
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Shake something with your foot.
wibem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Shake (eg. of ground during an earth tremor).
Kurungurr Example:
Ngityirr wibem walal ngidde.
The ground shook under us.
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Shake (of something that stands, like a tree).
Kurungurr Example:
Yewirr yaga wirringe walal tye.
The tree itself was shaking.
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Shake something by repeatedly shoving it (eg. a sapling).
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Surprise someone, give someone an 'emotional shake' (eg. by turning up unexpectedly).
Kurungurr Example:
Wabirr walal ngini.
He'll turn up unexpectedly and surprise them.
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Shake (of something that 'sits').
Kurungurr Example:
Tye kinyi dim walal wurru.
This chair is wobbly.
Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Walk along with a 'shaky-arsed' movement, wobble your bum cheeks from side to side.
Kurungurr Example:
Ya kene wuni yenim walalpurr!
Who's that walking along 'shaky-arsed' there!
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
coverb
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Dance in the women's style of dancing.
Kurungurr Example:
Falmi deti walamarra wirrim.
And the women were dancing too.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
River red gum and White river gum.
Wumirri Headword: 
wamakarri
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Bad man (literally), but this word is also used positively to describe someone who does something surprising or 'cool'.
Kurungurr Example:
'Walenggirr!'
'Hey, aren't you wicked!'
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Buffalo.
Kurungurr Example:
Minde nyinpefi ngambani, walfaga nana kiminin kal.
Let's not go that way, a buffalo might chase us.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Fishing net, woven fabric, clothes.
Kurungurr Example:
Dirrpederr ngaganim, walipan ngemi pul ngini ngiwi.
I'm going to the river, to wash the clothes.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Slanty-eyed, having 'Asian eyes'.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Puckered lips, having a small puckered mouth.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Skinny-legged, having too thin legs.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Gap, a pass through a range.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Scrawny-necked, having a neck that is too skinny.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Radio.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Flower.
Kurungurr Example:
Walkity pupuritymuy kirri!
What a beautiful flower!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Hornet, large yellow.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Knife, large chopping knife, machete.
Wumirri Headword: 
wabanunggutyirriny
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Left-handed man.
Wumirri Headword: 
wamanggurrfer
Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
Man whose spouse has died (especially recently).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Poor bugger.
Kurungurr Example:
Yakarra wamakarri, kene ninggi kinyi wuni tyuk tye yedi?
Poor bugger, who's been giving him a hiding?
Wumirri Headword: 
efenggipurr
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Agile wallaby, female.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Man who's always on the prowl for girls, a sleaze.
Wumirri Headword: 
wamudadirri
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tough bastard, a hard man, someone who doesn't negotiate.
Wumirri Headword: 
waminbe falmi
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Man without a wife.
Kurungurr Example:
Wa minde falmi napa yedi tye, a buy mem pi.
He's always had no wife, and now he's old.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Cripple, crippled man.
Kurungurr Example:
Wamulurru dangingngi fime.
Ol' Cripple gave it to me.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Policeman.
Kurungurr Example:
Kultyi nimbi wamumu ninggi den tip wawukume tyelewuty nimbi dagam felfil.
Yesterday the policeman caught the man who ran away from jail.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Silent type, person who doesn't talk much.
Kurungurr Example:
Wamurrikin wurru yaga, minde nana genyi tyerrgat.
He's such a silent type, he won't even answer you.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Fishnet.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Doctor, both traditional 'medicine man' and also used in reference to white doctors in the clinic and hospital.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Playing card numbered 'one'.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Pole for pushing a raft or canoe.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Waves on the river, the wake of a passing boat.
Kurungurr Example:
Wanfanmarra wupun tyuk.
The waves are breaking.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Young man, youth.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Good hunter, a man skilled at finding meat.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Dance style inherited by Ngan'gikurunggurr people, as well as by the speakers of most of the Marri languages.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Wind, prevailing monsoonal wind that blows from the northwest.
Wumirri Headword: 
wawarralfa
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Uncircumcised boy, a boy who is not yet circumcised, but who is approaching that age (maybe about eleven yrs old).
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Floating ribs, the unattached lowest rib bones.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Armpit sweat.
Word Class: 
coverb
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Live, be in a place.
Kurungurr Example:
Kinyi ngani wap ngini.
I just want to stay here.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Sit, move into a sitting position.
Kurungurr Example:
Nem yenim wap kana.
He is sitting down now.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Boss, an overseer, someone in charge.
Kurungurr Example:
Ya waputy wuni yinyirri!
Hey lookout, you see the boss over there!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Shout, a call, the sound of someone singing out.
Kurungurr Example:
Yibem tyeribaty wari?
Did you hear someone singing out?

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