Secretions and substances
awat���noun. vomit. Kerawkuny awat. ‘He vomits.’ See:�kerawkun�‘vomit’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
ikurri���noun. odour. Usage:�followed by nuyu Karriwunya tuka panikin ja inyarlgan karryaka la karriwujirra ja ikurri nuyu. ‘We cook the turtle in a container and then take it out and smell the odour of it.’ See:�wiringki�‘slippery’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Cognitive senses and attention.
kalamparak���noun. 1�•�perspiration. Kangpani nuyu kalamparak ‘He's sweating’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
2�•�feel hot and sweaty, have fever. Usage:�occurs with kimaju and kinima in sickness construction. MA subject for RU,3GEN subject for E. Naka kalamparak kingama. ‘He's hot and sweaty’. Nganngawun kalamparak akut. ‘I always get hot (e.g. whenever I walk)’. Anturrangkakany kalamparak. ‘You are sweating’. See:�wuwukuwuk�‘feel hot to touch’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Discomfort and pain.
kerajpun���iv. 1�•�he's putting hot sand on himself because he has a boil or a pain. kinyarajpun ‘she's heating herself with hot sand.’. Kinypani kinyarajpun. ‘She's warming herself on hot sand.’ Category:�Illness. Note: reflexive relationship with transitive form.
2�•�does not lay eggs (lit. keeps on aching). used of turtles which come up onto the beach and dig a hole but do not lay eggs. Manpiri malany yarajpukpuning. ‘The green-back turtle did not lay any eggs.’ See:�kinnyarajpun�‘warm on hot sand’. Category:�Reproduction.
Restrict:�Female subjects only 3: kinyarajpun�•�menstruate. See:�kinnyarajpun�‘roast’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
kerawkun���iv. 1�•�vomit. Kerawkun awat. ‘He vomits.’ See:�awat�‘vomit (noun)’; alar�‘gag (coverb with kerawkun)’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Automatic actions.
2 : kinyarawkun�•�give birth. Usage:�human or animal subjects, more polite than kinyalkpa See:�kiniwulawn�‘drop off’. Category:�Reproduction.
lv. Category:�Sickness.
kiwunta���iv. shit. ja kiwunta ‘not very confident of the transcription which HH wrote as kyunta’. Kiwunta kurak. ‘They do shit.’ Marrik nguntay (nguwuntay) ‘I'm constipated.’ See:�kimilunta�‘shit’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Sickness.
kurak���noun. excrement, shit. Variant:�vulgar term. See:�wurak�‘guts’; imarrk�‘stomach’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
kurrula���noun. 1�•�sea, as a large body of water, in contrast to dry land worri or as a source of danger. Ja kurrula kinginka. ‘The sea is rumbling (i.e. can be heard at a distance).’ Kinimajpungkun, marnti kurruniwun. ‘The sea is rough and it might kill you.’ Nulatparlangkat. Like the big wave ja kurrula ja kilawurtinka. ‘The sea is strong, like big waves are coming in.’ See:�nuwulwurrula�‘a coastal dweller’. Category:�Water bodies.
2�•�sea, as a liquid. This gender form is more common than the masculine form. Masculine form is obligatory for referring to seawater separated from the sea as when it is carried in a bucket. Also used to refer to the condition of seawater: i.e. whether it is clear or murky. Ngungtijpun ta kurrula. ‘I fetch sea water.’ Tuka ta kurrula. Inyi kurrunta. ‘This is seawater. Don't drink it.’ Nukapa kapala kantaji kangurlgeny ta kurrula. ‘The boat's got a hole in it and sea water's coming it.’ Category:�Water bodies.
3�•�amniotic fluid. Category:�Secretions and substances.
lurrwirt���noun. semen. Category:�Secretions and substances.
marlamumu���noun. clot of blood. Category:�Secretions and substances.
maningul���noun. blood, red. Category:�Secretions and substances, Colours and light.
mangawj���noun. phlegm. Ngamangawunapa, ngyeka ja mangawj. ‘As I cough, I cough up flem.’ Muka mata walurru ta amajung pata arrarrkpi amajung mangawj. ‘People would use Stringybark when they had a cough.’ Ja alangunta naka kiwuma ingijalk kiwula pa marrik amangawu ja mangawj. ‘They get the fruit from the Alangunta tree and eat it. This helps to prevent coughs.’ See:�wurnkurrk�‘snot’; majarr�‘throat’; wumanga�‘source of a creek’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
kimaju mangaw���have a cough (as a type of illness). Category:�Sickness.
maralngkiny���noun. spittle, saliva. Karrunngaryakpakpa mata maralngkiny. ‘Spittle keeps us moist, healthy.’ Category:�Secretions and substances.
mawili���noun. diarrhoea.
1�•�be sick with diarrhoea. Ngamaju mawili. ‘I'm sick because I have diarrhoea.’ Nganiwun wurlurlu ngungpurrun mawili ngamaju. ‘I feel something (wrong), perhaps I am getting diarrhoea’. Nganiwun wurlurlu ngungpurrun mawili nganpanima. ‘Something is coming on and I think diarrhoea might take hold of me.’ See:�arrarr�‘have diarrhoea’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Sickness.
milarng���noun. tears, crying. Nuka ja imurra milarng. ‘He has a lot of tears, is a cry baby.’ Nuka ja milarng ja inimany iminy ‘And the tears fell’. Nakapa ja inimany ja milarng ja nakapa ja yarntulyak. ‘He starts to cry and he crys for a long time.’ See:�milarngmilarng�‘crybaby’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
minyngu���noun. 1�•�dirt and sweat from the body. Nuyi ta mamurra minyngu anyanyji annguryinga. ‘You are a dirty boy, go and wash.’ Ta kawuryi la kampakaka minyngu nuyu ja kinyimakan la pata awunimalkpangung. ‘When they wash the wife and children get all the minyngu (off them).’ Category:�Secretions and substances.
2�•�funeral or the ceremony of washing relatives of the dead and burning of clothes followed by a remembrance feast after which relatives feel happy again. Usage:�used with verb kilangali to say 'have minyngu ceremony', 'perform minyngu ceremony'. Wularrutapa awuryiliny ta minyngu. ‘They have now washed for the mortuary ceremony’. Ja kimaju karriwunyaka nuyu irrkpalakaj la karrangali minyngu. ‘When someone dies, we smoke his possessions and have a minyngu.’ Walmuri awunimany rtilga. Minyngu kawani. Mankumpurri mannyutpan. ‘Walmuri brings them all together for a funeral. He puts on the mourner's neckband (mankumpurri).’ See:�mulil�‘have ceremony’; kamaju�‘ceremony type’. Category:�Mourning.
muru���noun. a grass species with a feathery top. Has an underground edible nut. Wallabies eat these a lot. Triodia spp. ; Imperata cylindrica ; Mnesithea rottboelioides. Variant:�Iwaidja: Murrur. Piwupiwuk nakapa atinguliny ta muru. ‘Piwupiwuk built a house of muru grass.’ Category:�Grasses, Plant food, Medicine. Anth: This grass has some significance in the story about the young couple who are the only survivors of an earthquake and marry even thought they are the wrong skins for each other.
coverb. Restrict:�GEN subject first menstrual period, girl's puberty ceremony. Kawunngen muru ‘They have their first period’. Kinyngen muru ‘She has her first period’. Nuka ja muru kawunngen. ‘That's the first period ceremony.’ Usage:�semantic restriction on experiencer object gender. Also used to refer to the ceremony associated with a girl's first period. Syn:�warlk, najaman. Category:�Secretions and substances. Note: warlk is exact synonym
murrkirlak���noun. ear-wax. Kumalkpanyi ngartu murrkirlak tuka larnngalk. ‘Take the wax out of my ears.’ Category:�Secretions and substances.
nirnurr���noun. sleep in the eyes. Katju ngulamngulam ta karrpajpungkin naka nirnurr kiw ngarrurru tuka wun. ‘When we get up in the morning there is sleep in our eyes.’ Category:�Secretions and substances.
nyi���coverb. blow the nose. Anmina nyi. ‘Blow your nose.’ Category:�Secretions and substances.
wurnkurrk���noun. 1�•�Jellyfish. Category:�Shellfish.
2�•�snot. See:�mangawj�‘phlegm’. Category:�Secretions and substances.
3�•�bad cold with runny nose. Ja wurnkurrk numurrunti. ‘It's a bad cold.’ Ja wanpirlk, kiniwun wurnkurrk, nuyu. ‘The seed cures colds, it's used for that.’ Pa kinnyaka ja wurnkurrk, tuka kumpil ngarru ‘It gets rid of the colds in our chests.’ See:�wurnngulk�‘insect type’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Sickness.
wuwuj���noun. piss, urine. See:�kilawujpun�‘piss, rain heavily’. Category:�Secretions and substances, Medicine. Anth: Can be used in the treatment of any jellyfish or stingray stings. Previously sand straight from the fire was used, alternating with munmunka.
yanyjuk���noun. breast, milk (of any mammal). See:�iwururrk�‘succulent juicy, wuwururrk 'breasts full of milk'’. Category:�Organs and torso, Secretions and substances.
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