Desire
kilaji���iv. 1�•�greedy, hungry. See:�nulaji�‘greedy’; kantijawa�‘flour’. Category:�Desire. Note: Cannot mean 'it is empty'
Restrict:�LL subject 2: kantaji�•�empty, open, hollow, a hole. Wugarra yiwuwany nuyu la yiwaning antajing nuyu parrwarr ta nangartam nuyu. ‘They at a lot of his cheek and there was a hole right through his cheek.’ Kantaji ta waryat. ‘There's a hole in the rock.’ Kayirrk warrwak apa la, ta warrwak angmirlkpungeny pu wanji pa warlk mampulalkuny mata kantaji awk. ‘And later on they got the idea of cutting down all those hollow trees.’ See:�ngalmarr�‘cave, a hollow’. Category:�Smaller features, Shape.
kantaji wulij���noun. space in the mangroves. Anth: They used to chop them down in a small area and then go in at low tide and get martpoj and karnjawarra. Category:�Mangroves, Landscape.
kilangan���iv. 1�•�Do on own initiative, do what you feel like doing. Kiwanipa, kilanganapa ke. ‘He sits for a long time then he feels like going.’ Kinyjanganapa kinyarra warak. ‘She feels like it so she goes off.’ Marrik ankangay. ‘You are not doing it on your own initiative.’ Category:�Cognitive senses and attention, Desire, General.
2�•� Nuwurri kurrungpurrun jita warramumpik ta kinyalkpa ja warrayngiw nakapa kinnyiwunpun werrk warrwakapa la kapalkpa ta atjak la kinyjangen mirayu. ‘�€š�„úYou(plural) know how a woman who bears a child has ( early) labour pains first and afterwards suffering comes and she has severe labour pains.�€š�„ù’. See:�kinnyen�‘pierce’. Category:�Reproduction, Discomfort and pain.
kinimarranypun���tv. Desire, want very much, but fail to get. Ngapi nginymarranypung karnjawarra. ‘I wanted to get that crab very much, but did not get it.’ Category:�Desire, Hunting.
kinimiyarma���tv. 1�•�want, like, love. Puka apumiyarmany walij. ‘They wanted food.’ Ngapi marrik ngimiyarmang ‘I don't like it’. Ta ngartunyun karrpin naka ngarrkarrk warranyngiw pata karrpunmiyarma mira. ‘We say ngartunyun when there are two children that we really love.’ Category:�Desire.
Restrict:�LL object 2: kanimiyarma�•�want (event complement). kurlingka nuwurri kurrungmiyarma arrkpana arriwayan pitja. ‘Do you want to come and see the picture?’ Ja warranyngiw wularrutapa kinywunpun jita nigi. Kanimiyarma iwalurrangken. ‘The child is now causing the mother pain. He wants to be born.’ See:�kinnyarnama�‘hate, dislike’. Category:�Desire.
kinimulun���tv. 1�•�track person down in order to kill them, hunt an animal. Ngimulun kapin ngiwanawun ja arrarrkpi. Mankarni iwaniwun la yalayala ta lirri. ‘Ngimulun is when I kill a man. A medicine man will kill him or straightforward trouble.’ Category:�General change of state, Hunting.
Restrict:�LL object 2: kanimulun�•�typical male hunting on land, e.g. looking for kangaroo or buffalo with a spear. Malany ta karrungmulun ta apururrk walij nakapa katja tuka warak kunak kapa mantanti yara kani wiyu. ‘When we go hunting for bush foods in the time of plenty (early dry season) we go to the mainland or somewhere here.’ Kanimulunapa iwana, ayang iwanilalku. ‘He hunts. He will go and spear a kangaroo.’ angkumuluning kiyap ‘they wanted to go fishing’. See:�pirrpirr�‘hunting on land, with dog’. Category:�Hunting.
Restrict:�LL object 3: kanimulun�•�want to go: shopping, fishing, hunting, home. Ngapi ngungmulun ngatpanala walij tuka kunak. ‘I want to go home and eat.’ Nuwutpurra ta marryun kurrungmuluni kutjanyji. ‘Come on all you boys, you want to go.’ Kanimulun. ‘He wants to go.’ Kanimulun kiyap. ‘He wants to go fishing.’ Kangkumulun. ‘They all want to go.’ Category:�Desire.
kiningaka���tv. not know because of being from different areas. Or dislike because of being from different areas. iwangakangung. Ingangakangung kirrk. ‘She didn't like any (of the mainland meat foods, because she didn't know them).’ arrunpangakay ‘they don't recognise us’. Awunpangakanyi la wemin. ‘They didn't know each other.’ See:�kinnyarnama�‘hate, dislike’. Category:�Desire, Cognitive senses and attention, Fight.
kiningkala���tv. Desire to eat. Ngapi ngingkala irratat kinnyatpi warak. ‘I would love to eat some of that meat he is taking home.’ Nganymangkala nuwu murlu. ‘I would love to eat your nose.’ La inyminang marrmarr jita inyanat jita frog jita nganymangkala ngaw murlu. ‘So she was happy, the frog, poor thing.’ Category:�Desire.
kiniwurlkparrki���tv. Restrict:�MA subject hungry, have empty stomach. Ngamaju wirrngak, nganiwurlkparrki, ngapanala walij. ‘I'm hungry, I feel like I have an empty stomach, I want to eat.’ See:�wirrngak (kimaju)�‘hungry’; kaningulkparrki�‘bow head’. Category:�Desire.
kiniyarrun���tv. 1�•�follow, chase. Iniyarruning. ‘He was following him.’ Awuniluriny. Warrwak imalkpanyka. Awuniluriny. Warrwak Awuniyarrungka ‘He's the youngest son. He's the one who came after (all the others).’ Category:�Movement relating to moving object.
Usage:�object is track or route 2�•�take a particular route, follow a track. Pa angpuyarruning parak ajputajput. ‘They followed a beach route.’ Ta nungmatpa alan inyi kurrungjarrun. ‘Don't take the other road.’ Tuka ta alan arrungpayarrun. ‘We'll take this road.’ Category:�Movement relating to fixed point.
3�•�go after something, go for. Apuyarruning ta kurnpi. ‘They were going after wild plums.’ yuran maniyarruning parak mata warral ‘he went to the Warral tree (planning to chop it down)’. La ngungpurrun ngapi ngeyarrukuning ja warrwak. ‘But maybe I like the younger brother.’ Category:�Movement relating to fixed point, Hunting, Desire.
4�•�become like. Kingayarrun kirrk waryat. ‘It camouflages itself (follows the rocks: a stone fish)’. See:�kiwnmin�‘be similar’. Category:�General.
kinnyen���tv. 1�•�harpoon, pierce, inject, stab, shoot. yany. Innyeny nganaparru. ‘He shot the buffalo.’ Kumanyi ja kuling pa larla iwangen manpiri. ‘Take the rudder so older sister can harpoon the turtle.’ ta kunak kanin parak ‘it's roots go a long way into the ground’. ngarrungeny ‘we push (a stick) into the sand (to look for turtle eggs)’. See:�amurl�‘dance movements’. Category:�Pierce, shoot.
2�•�sew the needle. Iwenang yangali warra kamu. ‘The women were making baskets.’ Category:�Pierce, shoot.
Restrict:�GEN subject 3 kingen�•�decide, feel like, want (with non-concrete object of desire). Arrarrkpi ja iwangen minyngu. ‘The man who runs the funeral.’ iwangen, kunngen, nganngen, kinyngen, kunngeniny, kannyeni, annyeni, . Kunngen. ‘You want to date her.’ Kiki la kungeniny ta ngurrij pa apurnungani tuka kunak. ‘When do you want to go home? (lit: How many days until you want to go back home?)’ Arrarrkpi ja iwangen. ‘The man who decides what day a funeral will finish on.’ Category:�Cognitive senses and attention, Desire. See:�kilangan�‘feel like (doing something)’.
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kingamarlmanpukpun���tv. Restrict:�female subject (woman) tempt man to adultery. Category:�Desire. See:�kimarlmanpun�‘satisfied’. Category:�Desire, Reproduction.
lintij���coverb. 1�•�play, or for adults 'dance and sing'. Kawuli lintij pata warranyngiw. ‘The children are playing.’ Kayirrk ngatangaling lintij ngarriwung larrapa. ‘We kept dancing and singing and then we finished.’ Nganawani lintij ja rtupulu. ‘I'll play cards.’ See:�marlana�‘playing’. Category:�Play, perform, joke.
2�•�be boyfriend and girlfriend. Category:�Desire.
mamuli���noun. 1�•�large male animal. Category:�General.
2�•�greedy, lustful. Category:�Desire, Peoples and clans.
mararraj���noun. sweetheart. Kaningula mararraj kayirrk la kawarra walyang. ‘He made a sweetheart relationship and now they have eloped’. Inyimany mararraj. ‘He took a sweetheart, he ran off with her’. inymalkpany mararraj inyarrangung juju. ‘She comes out and walks to her lover.’ Category:�Desire. Anth: When referring to the man, the parents say 'they' as is the custom in referring to the son-in-law.
marr���noun. like very much, people or food. Jaka jita marr marryun. ‘She (likes) boys too much.’ Naka ja marr yirratat kinila ‘He likes eating a lot of meat.’ See:�arr�‘keep, want’; marrmarr�‘happy’. Category:�Desire.
coverb. 1�•�want to be with somebody a lot, be fond of somebody (literally: sees me too much). Nakapa marryun anyak ngannyayan marr. ‘The little boy wants me very much.’ See:�kima�‘auxiliary verb’. Category:�Desire.
2�•�be very annoyed, against something. Nganama marr. ‘I will be annoyed about it.’ See:�kiyintukun�‘be against something’. Category:�Hate, anger, Judgement, evaluation.
milirri���coverb. 1�•�difficult. Kili milirri. ‘He finds it difficult.’ Ngali milirri. ‘I know I've forgotten something, I'm trying to think what it was [e.g. when you've been to the shop and are walking home, then you suddenly think that there was something else you needed]’. Kili milirri. ‘He goes along thinking about which way to go.’ See:�nungmilirri; numilinmilirri�‘difficult (of performance)’; kinimilin�‘leave behind’. Category:�Judgement, evaluation.
2�•�think hard. Category:�Cognitive senses and attention.
Restrict:�LL object 4�•�jealous. Juka kangatpi milirri. ‘She's feeling jealous of her.’ Annyatpi milirri. ‘He's jealous, e.g. a child, when he sees his mother holding another child.’ Kannyatpi milirri nuyu. ‘He's jealous of him.’ Category:�Desire.
ngartunyun���pro. mine, term of affection used towards children. Ta ngartunyun karrpin naka ngarrkarrk warranyngiw pata karrpunmiyarma mira. ‘We say ngartunyun when there are two children that we really love.’ Category:�Desire.
ngawulukuj���interjection. expression of love or sympathy to one person. Ngawulukuj pularr ngawinyun. ‘Oh our dear ngawinys!’ See:�ngala�‘term of address for mother or mother's brother used in time of distress’. Category:�Desire, Language.
ngawulukuj pularr���plural of ngawulukuj. Anth: When we see some boys coming back after hunting we say, Ngawulukuj pularr ngawinyun. That means we are glad they got back safely. When those men have gone away we say ngawulukuj pularr. That means we are sorry they have gone. Category:�Desire, Language.
ngawulukuj pularr���plural of ngawulukuj. Anth: When we see some boys coming back after hunting we say, Ngawulukuj pularr ngawinyun. That means we are glad they got back safely. When those men have gone away we say ngawulukuj pularr. That means we are sorry they have gone. Category:�Desire, Language.
ngur���coverb. jealous. Naka kili ngur. ‘He is jealous.’ Kinyjangali ngur. ‘She's jealous.’ Category:�Desire.
wurlkpungkuj���noun. be friendly towards. Kannyatpi ngarrurru ta wurlkpungkuj. ‘He is friendly towards us.’ Category:�Desire.
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