Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Grass species.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurrgerretyi yemi ket i fungguli nide yemi gulgul, i yiwi lalirr kana.
You cut the stems of wurrgerretyi and use them to scoop out sugarbag and eat it.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Horizontal band of grass-fire smoke in the distance.
Kurungurr Example:
Kene nawa yenim puppup. Wurrngekin wuni gibem.
I wonder who's burning grass. There's a band of grass-fire smoke over there.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Speargrass species, very tall.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Grass species (very dense and hard to walk through).
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Season name: based on the speargrass cycle. The time about late May to early June when the speargrass has dried out and died off, and is ready to be burned. Literally: 'dry grass'.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Grass species.
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Season name: based on the speargrass cycle. That time near the end of the wet season when speargrass seed heads are all swollen and hanging heavily.
Word Class: 
time noun
Meaning:
Season name: based on the speargrass cycle. That time of year when speargrass stalks are beginning to dry out and turn a reddish colour.
Word Class: 
particle
Meaning:
Hurry, quickly.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurra ngambani ya peyipagu gariny tyip!
Hurry up! The sun's going down now!
Kurungurr Example:
Yaga wurra ngarim fityat!
Quick, I left it somewhere over there!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Devil, with cat-like claws and a hooked tail.
Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Move something, place something elsewhere, shift something out of the way.
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Shift your position, move to sit somewhere else.
Kurungurr Example:
Mendi pagu yiwi wurrirr!
Move over closer here!
yenim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Bind something up with string, make a net.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Speargrass seed heads.
Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
Stubborn, determined, strong-willed. Someone who never lets up once they put their mind to something.
Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Shy, be shy.
Kurungurr Example:
Yenim wurrurmuy wurru!
She's so shy.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Thin, skinny woman.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Policewoman.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurwamumu kana din plitytesyin kinyi.
There's a policewoman at this police station.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Girl who is just developing breasts.
Wumirri Headword: 
wurwedimuy
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Little girl.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurwetimuy ngayi ngini ngupungnge fifili ngaganim.
I've been searching around for my little girl.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Promiscuous woman, a woman who has had many men.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Baby girl that's just learnt to crawl.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Baby that's just learnt to walk.
Wumirri Headword: 
wurkeninggisyi
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Girl whose breasts are just beginning to grow, with just the nipples swollen.
Word Class: 
kinterm
Meaning:
Daughter, my daughter.
Word Class: 
kinterm
Meaning:
Daughter. A woman calls her own daughter wuryiki. A man calls his sister's daughter wuryiki. Also great grandmother.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
New mother, a mother with her first child.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Hairbelt, a traditional belt of woven hair worn around the waist.
Word Class: 
coverb
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Heavy, be heavy.
Kurungurr Example:
Warrgadi kinyi wut meng ngindi.
This bag is too heavy for me.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Heavy.
Kurungurr Example:
Aya kinyi wutitmi wurru!
Hey, this is too heavy!
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
wutyit
Word Class: 
coverb
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Pour out (of liquid), spill, be leaking.
Kurungurr Example:
Ya, kuri yaga yaganim wuty!
Hey, your beers spilling!
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Throw water away, discard liquid.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngu wuty ngini.
I'm going to throw it away.
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Spread things around, distribute things over an area (eg. deal out playing cards, arrange rocks over the base of a ground oven).
Kurungurr Example:
Ngete yu wutyity yenggi nide!
Spread the hot rocks around the fire base!
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Splash liquid out of a container because you are moving with it. (eg. walk along with a full bucket of water, slopping it out as you go).
yirripin
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Go along deliberately spilling something.
Kurungurr Example:
Nelen yirrini wutyit tye tyiminy.
He was pouring out the cement for the road.
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Splash water out.
Meaning:
Splash the surface of the water - fish only, indicates fish swirling below surface.
Kurungurr Example:
Aya tyagannawa dim wuwu?
Hey what's that splashing there?
Word Class: 
demonstrative
Meaning:
That, that one there. An anaphoric demonstrative standing for something already mentioned.
Kurungurr Example:
Kanbi yaga minbe merrendi ganytyawam eplen nide, nimbi gani lala ngarapa wurru.
You can't take that didjeridu onto the plane, it's too fragile, it might split.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Woomera. A kind of small woomera used for throwing long bamboo-shafted spears.
Word Class: 
place noun
Meaning:
Back there, back in that place.
Kurungurr Example:
Adetyerr kide? Yagatayirre ngaganim pirr.
Where's the bait? Oh, I've left it back there.
Word Class: 
interjection
Meaning:
Poor thing! (an exclamation of sympathy on hearing bad news).
Kurungurr Example:
Yakarra!
Poor thing!
Word Class: 
interjection
Meaning:
Look out !, Ouch !, Shit !
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Mermaid, freshwater mermaids that live in creeks.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
coverb
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Speared, be speared, have something piercing you.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngirim yerrawul.
I've got a spear in me.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Speared, be speared, move along with a spear stuck in you.
wibem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Talk or sing non-stop (talk for hours, sing all night, etc).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Spear (this is a generic term for any type of bamboo-shafted spear).
Kurungurr Example:
Kultyinimbi wawukume yawul ninggi warrim pawal.
Yesterday one man was speared with a bamboo spear.
Kurungurr Example:
Kultyinimbi wawunggume yawul ninggi warriny pawal.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Sandalwood tree.
Wumirri Headword: 
mipurr
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Male, of humans and animals.
Kurungurr Example:
Kurungurr Example:
Emenggin, mipurr, danguru wagarri dem baty.
A goanna, a male one, has two penises.
Wumirri Headword: 
mipurr eme
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Kidney-fat stealer, sorcerer.
Wumirri Headword: 
wangurbak
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Uncircumcised boy.
Word Class: 
coverb
dagam
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Run.
Word Class: 
coverb
dagam
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Walk.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Wax from the honey of wugurruk and dula bees.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tree species. CHECK
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tree species. see book CHECK
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Explain something to someone. Give someone something to think about. Put an idea in someone's mind.
Kurungurr Example:
Yeyi ninggi ngan'gi demewirr yen'gi yedi, waddine werrtyeri.
He explained it to the message, and the other mob listened to him.
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Turn-take, have your turn in a conversation.

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