Rains
apijpirr���noun. clear sky, no rain coming. Malany walmat angkat kangmalkpaga? Wularrut apijpirr kirrk. ‘Is the rain still coming down? It has cleared up now.’ See:�kalalk�‘clear weather, clear sky’; kuwinu�‘cloud, cloudy sky’. Ant:�nguljirr. Category:�Weather, Rains.
imijimi���noun. gentle falling rain.
coverb. Restrict:�MA subject gentle rain fall. Malany ilangaling imijimi. ‘The rain was falling gently.’ See:�punyi�‘heavy rain’. Category:�Rains, Weather.
kiniwartpalmuni���tv. Restrict:�MA subject ; MA object thunderhead develop. Kurrayanti iniwartpalmununyka. ‘Look how that thunderhead has built up.’ See:�kiniwartpalwani�‘thunderhead develop’; mawartpalmuni�‘bump together’; kiniwurtpulmuni�‘splash water’. Category:�Rains.
kiniwartpalwani���tv. 1�•�hit on forehead. Marryun iniwartpalmuniny waryat. Malany imajung. ‘The boy hit him on the forehead with a stone. It hurt him.’ See:�mawartpalmuni�‘bump together’. Category:�Strike or chop.
Restrict:�MA subject ; MA object 2: kiniwartpalwani�•�there is a thunderhead building up in the sky. Iniwartpalwaniny kiwani turuy. ‘A thunderhead has developed from which there is distant thunder and lightning.’ Syn:�kiniwartpalmuni. Category:�Rains, Sky.
kiniwun���tv. 1�•�hit, impact on, harm, kill. kurriwungka ‘you killed it’. Katiwun taka ta kantijawa. ‘He hits the bread.’ Marrgij inyjuwung. ‘They attacked her magically’. See:�kiniwunpun�‘ring’. Category:�Strike or chop.
2�•�make like (adjective), change to be like (adjective). Iniwuning ilurtpuj. ‘He was making it short.’ Ngannyawun rlaw. ‘I'm bending the wood.’ kampuwun kupuny ‘they make canoes’. Maniwung mata majarr. ‘He's speaking loudly.’ Category:�General change of state.
Restrict:�ED object 3: katiwun�•�hunt yams or other vegetable tubers. Awuran apuwung ta karwuluk. Apumanyka ta apun la ta awalinyjinyut (ta karwuluk). ‘They went out to get some yams. They brought big ones and small ones.’ yiwuwuning kiyap ‘they were catching fish.’ See:�kaniyawun�‘dig with a stick’. Category:�Hunting.
Restrict:�MA object 4: kiniwun�•�ring (on phone). Usage:�used with oblique pronoun Ingawung ngartu. ‘She rang me up .’ Ngiwung parakpu ‘I called them up.’ Kuwanawun? ‘Are you going to make a call?’ Syn:�kilakpalolen. Category:�Language.
Restrict:�FE object 5: kinyiwun�•�clap hands. Kinyiwun yurnu. ‘He's clapping his hands.’ Category:�Non language human voice sounds.
Restrict:�MA subject 6 kiniwun�•�rain on. Arruniwuning walmat ja karrkpin. ‘It was raining hard (on us).’ Katangali. Katiwun walmat nuka, pa kapurranymin. ‘It stands there. Rain falls on it and it grows. (a yam)’. See:�walmat�‘rain’. Category:�Rains.
Restrict:�MA subject 7�•�cure (sickness). Kawani purlup pata arrarrkpi pata kiwatpi jilimin nakapa kiniwunpu ja jilimin. ‘People with ringworm will swim (in waterholes with Paperbark leaves in them) to cure themselves.’ Nukapa ja wurakpa ja kiniwun ja namurarri. ‘The wurakpa tree cures wasting sickness.’ Ja wanpirlk, kiniwun wurnkurrk, nuyu. ‘The seed cures colds, it's used for that.’ Category:�Medicine.
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miyawrt���noun. fog. Variant:�Ngurtikin form; miyurt. Marrik atjing kiyap la imurra miyawrt. ‘We will not go fishing because there is a lot of fog.’ Category:�Rains.
namirtpagarri���noun. the last rains of the wet season, the knock 'em downs which break down the long grass. Category:�Rains.
naykamarrang���noun. the first rains of the wet season. Kerraga arrunpaniwun ja walmat ja naykamarrang. ‘The first rains are coming and will hit us.’ See:�walmat�‘rain’. Category:�Rains.
parra���noun. 1�•�the west wind, which blows during the wet season. See:�jimurru�‘South-east trade winds’; marlu�‘wind’; mantanti kapukpaga�‘south wind’. Category:�Wind.
2�•�the first rain from the west. Category:�Rains.
punyi2���coverb. Restrict:�MA object 1 kinima punyi�•�be blind. Wularrut arrimaj punyi yirrkju. ‘We are blind in both eyes.’ Ngapi ngimaj punyi. ‘I am blind’. Ngimaj punyi yirrkju. ‘I am blind in both eyes.’ See:�wunyipunyi�‘blink’; punyikarlu�‘blind person’. Category:�Physical disability and injury.
Restrict:�MA subject 2 kimin punyi�•�heavy rain fall. Kurlingka imij punyiga? Eqe, imij punyi. ‘Is there heavy rain coming? Yes, there is heavy rain.’ See:�imijimi�‘gentle rain’. Category:�Rains.
turuy���coverb. 1�•�rumbling of distant thunder. Anngalyunyi kiwani turuy. ‘Listen to the distant rumble of thunder.’ Iniwartpalwaniny kiwani turuy. ‘A thunderhead has developed from which there is distant thunder and lightning.’ See:�marrarawk�‘forked lightning strike’. Category:�Sky, Non language human voice sounds.
2�•�thunder make itself heard. Ngawaningan imit turuy. ‘I heard thunder.’ Category:�Sky, Rains.
3�•�cause thunder to occur by breaking traditional law? Katpun turuy, imajpunjing ying nungmatpa kunak awuniwu. ‘If we transgress, something bad will happen.’ Category:�Sky, General ritual.
walmat���noun. 1�•�rain. Usage:�used with kiniwun, kerra kilatpa kangalkpaga Arruniwuning walmat ta kupurrk. ‘It was raining last night (lit. rain was hitting us last night).’ Kerraga arrunpaniwun ja walmat ja naykamarrang. ‘The first rains are coming and will hit us.’ Nyinkurr kerraga ngarrurru ja walmat. ‘The rain cloud is bringing rain to us.’ See:�naykamarrang�‘first rains of wet season’; nyinkurr�‘approaching rain cloud’; kiniwun (katiwun walmat)�‘rain fall on’. Category:�Rains.
2�•�year, way of measuring years - counting number of rainy seasons. Usage:�Used in special idiom with kinnyaka with MA subject and LL object to mean 'X number of years pass' See:�jungkarra�‘year’. Category:�Longer.
wupaj���noun. 1�•�water, fluid. Ngamaju wirij wupaj. ‘I am thirsty for water.’ Category:�Water bodies.
2�•�alcohol, grog. See:�nuntirri�‘dangerous, primarily used to refer to alcohol’; akpaj�‘gather’. Category:�Rains.
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