Wind
jimurru���noun. South-east trade winds. Anth: These blow from the Martpalk side of Warruwi across to Wiyarla during the dry season (April/May - September). Apumirlajuning jimurru. ‘They were waiting for the south-east trade winds.’ Jimurru, ja kimurnanganiga ja walmat. ‘During the South-east trade winds time, when the rains comes back.’ See:�marlu�‘wind’; parra�‘west wind’; mantanti kapukpaga�‘south wind. The wind which comes from the direction of the mainland’. Category:�Wind.
kiwukpa���iv. 1�•�cool, cooling. kangpukpa ‘It (liquid) is cooling (still hot)’; angpukpany ‘It (liquid) is cooled’; kamawukpa ‘it is cooling’. Met la kangpukpa ta ti kayirrk. ‘Wait, the tea is cooling.’ Met la kangpukpa ta ti. ‘Wait on, the tea is cool (now).’ Category:�Cognitive senses and attention.
2�•�dry. Kiwukpakpa manpurrwa. ‘The clothes are drying.’ Category:�Properties of surface.
Restrict:�ED subject 3: kapukpa�•�blow (wind). Usage:�Used for all winds Marlu kapukpaga. ‘The wind is blowing, cooling.’ Kapa kapukpa ta marlu. ‘The wind's blowing that way.’ Kapukpakpa kangmarrangulin. ‘The (north-west) wind blowing reminds me of what happened in the past.’ See:�kiniwukpa�‘auxiliary’. Category:�Wind.
kurutukurutuk���coverb. Restrict:�ED subject (wind) blow, (air) circulate. For example in a room with the fan on. Apilkpungakenang ta marlu atangaling kurutukurutuk. ‘The wind kept on changing blowing in different directions.’ Awaning, awaning apilkpungakenangapa ta marlu atangaling kurutuk-kurutuk apumirlajuningapa jimurru awunpirtutpangung ta pirraja. ‘They would wait until the wind turned to the South East and began blowing from that direction and then they began giving the people rice.’ Category:�Wind.
marlu���noun. 1�•�wind. Ma, kanama rtalkpi alaj Marlu innyartpungkunyka. ‘O.k., you start, so the wind must have brought him here.’ Marlu kakurrin makiny. ‘When the wind's strong, we don't go.’ See:�jimurru�‘southeast trade winds’; parra�‘west wind’. Category:�Wind.
2�•�wind of cyclone.
mantanti kapukpaga���phrase. south wind. The wind which comes from the direction of the mainland. See:�jimurru�‘South-east trade winds’; parra�‘west wind’. Category:�Wind.
najardawu���noun. whirlwind. Naka ngarrayawng najardawu ilangaling kapin yungku. ‘We saw a whirlwind standing up like fire (ie. a spiral of smoke).’ Category:�Wind. Syn:�ngarrana.
ngarrana���noun. whirlwind. Category:�Wind. Syn:�najardawu.
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.
warrajparray���coverb. Dance moving arms from side to side (used in Inyjalarrku dance). Fabric wave in the breeze, leaves on a tree wave in the breeze. Kawulangali warrajparray kiwarlukpa ‘They dance moving their hands from size to side.’ Category:�Play, perform, joke, Wind, General terms.
wungijalk kapukpaga���the North wind, which blows from the direction of the deep ocean. Category:�Wind.
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