Flowing water
awurr���noun. billabong, wide stretch of water which dries up in the Dry season. Category:�Flowing water.
kimajunmajun���iv. 1�•�be chronically ill. See:�kimaju�‘tired, sick, dead’. Category:�Discomfort and pain.
2�•�die. Restrict:�PL subject Ta kayirrk, qe, kayirrkapa amajunmajungan kirrk. ‘Now the old people have all died.’ Awuniwung kirrkapa amajungmajungan ‘He hit them all so they were really dead’. Category:�Illness and death.
Restrict:�LL subject 3: angmajunmajun�•�water get low, for example in a creek, when the dry season is beginning. Malany awaninganapa ta marlkpakpangung nakapa anmajunmajungan. ‘Later when they came towards the time of burning off, the water got low.’ Category:�Flowing water.
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mirnkany���noun. shallow water. Yunyi kanngarra tuka. Waka ta mirnkany. ‘Don't go in there (with the boat). That is shallow water.’ Syn:�worrinporrin. Category:�Flowing water, Water bodies. Note: May refer to distance from shore rather than depth
nungpartpalmili���noun. riverbank, creek bank. See main entry: iwartpalmili. Syn:�wuwartpalmili. Category:�Flowing water.
wulijpularr���noun. lesser creek, tributary. Ta nigi la wulijpularr. ‘A river and its lesser creeks (tributaries).’ Category:�Flowing water. See main entry: ilijpularr.
wumanga���noun. 1�•�source of a creek. mamanga ‘tree.part’; apanga ‘yam part’. See:�wunimi�‘bend in a creek’; mangawj�‘phlegm’; arrimanga�‘bereaved brother’; kimangawun�‘cough’. Category:�Flowing water.
2�•�middle camp - the part of Martpalk town between shop and airstrip. Category:�Place names.
wumawurr���noun. 1�•�river, creek. wumawurr nuntakprij ‘river or creek mouth’. wumawurr kantatpaga ‘headwaters’. Category:�Flowing water.
2�•�Milky Way. Kanyu arak wumawurr. ‘The milky way (lit: the creek that lies across)’. See main entry: imawurr. Category:�Sky.
wunimi���noun. bend of a creek or a billabong. See main entry: inimi. See:�wumanga�‘source of a creek’. Category:�Flowing water.
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