Mammals
aparrk���noun. 1�•�penis. Syn:�warla. See main entry: imarrk. Syn:�mazyirratat. Category:�Organs and torso. Note: not used to refer to yams at all.
2�•�cut of dugong meat. Category:�Mammals, Organs and torso.
ayang���noun. kangaroo (generic term). Category:�Mammals.
iwuyi���noun. bandicoot nest. Category:�Mammals.
jalaj���noun. dingo, wild dog. Category:�Mammals. See:�luluj�‘dog’.
jurrupi���noun. Banteng cattle. Category:�Mammals.
kanimuni kunak���phrase. pig. Syn:�pikipiki. Category:�Mammals.
kantakij���noun. red kangaroo. Category:�Mammals.
karaywalk���noun. type of possum which eats pandanus nuts. Category:�Mammals. Anth: found on Minjilang but not on Warruwi
kawanpani���noun. school of dugong. Ngawupa! nuka kiwani! ‘Come here! There's one here!’ La yara ngarrkarrk ta ngatpin kawanpani. ‘And when there's two we say "kawanpani'’. See:�nguyuyi�‘group’; kiwanpani�‘come from, habitually live at’. Category:�Mammals. Note: Cannot be inflected for any other persons it seems, but that may be because its obsolete
kujikang���noun. 1�•�kangaroo or wallaby pouch. Syn:�wakpart. Category:�Mammals.
2�•�pocket in a coat or dress or trousers. Syn:�wakpart. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kujpagarri���noun. wallaby. Category:�Mammals.
kuntaruk���noun. possum. Category:�Mammals.
larnngalk wu���sheep. Category:�Mammals.
luluj���noun. tame dog, camp dog, pet dog. pata luluj ‘the dogs’. Naka ja nawurlany nuyu ja ngarrkarrk luluj. ‘The two dogs are for Nawurlany.’ See:�jalaj�‘dingo’. Category:�Mammals.
marntakij���noun. bushy tailed wallaby. Category:�Mammals.
marntingunyuny���noun. dugong. Oh awangkung, awangurrinykapa, apukpuning yurnu, aminy "Mm, marntingunyuny." ‘They'd go along in the boat, they turn their had, we'd think "Oh, dugong."’ Note: When hunters returned in a canoe they'd make a handsign (for dugong) to show what they caught. Anth: Belongs to narrangarrajku moiety, is yungku, yarriwurrik side (fire). We don't point if we see a dugong when hunting, we hold our arm out and curl out index finger up. If we have a dugong, when we are coming into shore we hold up a paddle to let those on the shore know. See:�najparati�‘big dugong’; inyarlgan�‘turtle/dugong’. Category:�Mammals.
maruny1���noun. bandicoot. See:�mumpuli marruny�‘Coral Cod’. Category:�Mammals.
milirriny���noun. 1�•�bloodwood tree. Corymbia bleeseri. See:�milirrinyun�‘stand of bloodwoods’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Dye and fibre plants. Anth: Ash is mixed with dyes from plants to make darker colours for baskets, e.g. mixed with alangunta. This plant is good firewood and its coals are particularly good for cooking meat on.
2�•�part of dugong guts, perhaps liver. Category:�Mammals.
mirnawt���noun. big, pale-coloured plains kangaroo. Anth: Can go about in the rocks. Category:�Mammals.
mirrkpirrk���noun. fat piece over the stomach of turtle and dugong. Category:�Reptiles and amphibians, Mammals.
mirtan���noun. 'small liver', a part of the liver considered a delicacy for the old people. Category:�Mammals, Reptiles and amphibians.
mularn���noun. mouse, rat. Mularn kawani tuka murgala kapa Weyirra la kani Martpalk arlarrarr. Awuntuwung kirrk. ‘Mice live in the pandanus trees on North Goulburn Island, but not here at Martpalk. They killed them all.’ Category:�Mammals.
mulpu���noun. spotted marsupial rat. Category:�Mammals. Note: A character in the yitpiyitpi songs discussed by Berndt and Berndt (1970)
mungark���noun. possum. Category:�Mammals.
2�•�noun. cat, introduced. Category:�Introduced animals.
murru���noun. a large variety of flying fox which is black in colour. Category:�Mammals.
murrumpun���noun. large 'stone country' kangaroo, which is grey like a possum. Category:�Mammals.
najarrari���noun. common species of flying fox that visits Warruwi in the mango season. Category:�Mammals.
najparati���noun. a very big dugong. See:�marntingunyuny�‘dugong’. Category:�Mammals.
naparramny���noun. small species of bat. Category:�Mammals.
nawunawu���noun. whale. Anth: There is a skeleton of one of these on a beach at Warruwi, it is sacred to the Kalpu people, so no young children or women are to go near it. Category:�Mammals.
nayalak���noun. small brown flying fox species. Category:�Mammals.
ninyngararlk���noun. a large female dugong. See:�ningararlk�‘large male dugong’. Category:�Mammals. Anth: It has long tusks and is a loner.
ninytarrkpuk���noun. native cat, also known as quoll. Category:�Mammals. Anth: Lives in the rock country.
ningararlk���noun. a large male dugong. See:�ninyngararlk�‘large female dugong’. Category:�Mammals. Anth: It has long tusks and is a loner.
ngalyapanta���noun. 1�•�a forked piece of wood such as is used to make a bark shelter. Category:�General terms, Shelter, camp, house.
2�•�buffalo horn. See:�larnngalk�‘horn’. Category:�Mammals.
3�•�place name on the 'top side' of King River where the river forks out into smaller arms. Category:�Place names.
nganaparru���noun. buffalo. Category:�Mammals.
ngirntarrpuk���noun. quoll. Also referred to as native cat or squirrel sometimes. Category:�Mammals.
parrk���noun. black wallaby. Category:�Mammals.
pirturrangken���noun. Dolphin, porpoise. Category:�Mammals.
wagay���noun. flying possum. Category:�Mammals. Anth: A very small animal that eats sugarbag.
wakpart���noun. 1�•�kangaroo or wallaby pouch. Syn:�kujikang. Category:�Mammals.
2�•�pocket in a coat or dress or trousers. Syn:�wakpart. Juka ninypurnyak wakpart. ‘She has got a pouch (ie. she is a female wallaby).’ Syn:�kujikang. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
wampirlpaya���noun. echidna. Category:�Mammals.
wararru���noun. dugong or turtle hide. Nuka ja marntingunyuny kinnyatpi ja karrkpin ja warurru. ‘The dugong has a thick hide.’ Category:�General, Mammals, Reptiles and amphibians.
wirrkup���noun. water rat. Category:�Mammals.
witpitjurlirri���noun. medium sized whale, such as a black dolphin or a killer whale. Category:�Mammals.
worntok���noun. 1�•�spear thrower used to throw shovel spears, rlama. See:�karlpu�‘round ended spear thrower’. Category:�Tools, men's. Anth: It is very pretty and is often carved.
2�•�dugong tail, or tail of dolphin or whale. Category:�Mammals.
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