KAURNA WARRA |
ENGLISH |
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yailtyandi |
v.a. to believe; think; suppose; also see Yailtyarendi |
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yailtyarendi |
v.a. to believe; think; suppose; also see yailtyandi |
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yaitya |
adj. proper; own; native; fresh; as in yaitya warra, one's own language; yaitya meyu, countryman; yaitya kaume, proper (i.e. fresh) water. The reverse is kuma or pindi |
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yaitya kauwe |
fresh water |
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yaitya meyu |
an Aboriginal person |
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yaityakuinyo |
adj. impudent; bold |
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yakana |
s. sister |
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yakanata |
s. older sister; also see Yakkana, Yakkanilya |
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yakka |
int. expressing aversion; as yakka manya; yakka mingka |
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yakka alya! |
Oh dear! |
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yakkana |
s. sister; also see Yakanata, Yakkanilya |
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yakkandi |
v.n. and a. to run; chase; pursue; hunt |
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yakkanilya |
s. younger sister; also see Yakkana, Yakanata |
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yakkarendi |
v.n. to run |
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yakki |
s. depth; valley; as in narnu yakkinga, in the pine valley |
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yakki |
adj. deep, low, as in yakki yappa, a deep hole; adv. as in yakki kokando, dig deeply; as in Yakkinga, postp. under; below; underneath; as in witkatye yakkingga pa wandendi, It lies under the net bag |
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yakki kokando |
adv. dig deeply |
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yakki wadu |
a deep roaring noise |
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yakki yappa |
a deep hole |
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yakkinaingutta |
the soft part of bread |
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yakkinga |
postp. under; below; underneath |
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yakkinyerlo |
comp. deeper; lower |
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yakkitukutya |
also see yitpitukutya |
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yakko |
s. a kind of gum; as marnu yakko, the gum of the native pine; a native knife consisting of a sharp piece of flint fixed to one end of the wirri by means of this gum |
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yakko |
adv. not; no; as in Yokko atto nakki, I have not seen it |
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yakko |
gum of native pine used for hafting stone tools |
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yambo |
s. a large species of fish; porpoise |
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yamma |
adj. ignorant; simple; foolish; stupid; also see Yammaiamma |
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yammaiamma |
adj. native doctor; sorcerer |
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yammaiamma |
adj. ignorant; simple; foolish; stupid; also see yamma |
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yammarendi |
v.n. to be stupid; obstinate; disobedient |
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yammarendi |
v.inch. to become stupid; disobedient |
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yammaru |
s. a bag to take food in; knapsack |
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yammaru |
woven bag, basket or 'knapsack'; bag to take food in, rucksack |
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yampinna |
s. widower |
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yangadli |
adv. afterwards; later; in future; as in Yangadlitya, for the future; as in Yangadlindi, afterwards only |
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yangadli ai wortara |
I shall follow |
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yangarra |
s. wife; also see karto |
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yangarra mattanya |
husband |
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yangarratidli |
adj. having a wife, married |
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yangarrutanna |
adj. having no wife; unmarried; single |
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yao |
s. sea-gull |
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yappa |
s. hole |
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yarnmaiammarti |
don't be foolish; stupid |
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yarra |
s. the posterior part of the knee; popleteal space |
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yarra padne adli |
let us go separately; let us part. |
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yarraiappa |
the same as yarra |
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yarri |
s. pubes |
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yarro |
adj. wide; not narrow |
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yarro |
s. whirlwind |
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yarrurendi |
to break; tear; separate violently |
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yarruriappendi |
v.a. to break; rend; tear |
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yarruritti |
s. rent; tear |
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yartandi |
v.a. to bend; lay down; to break; tear |
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yartarendi |
v.n. to break; to be broken |
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yartariappendi |
v.a. to break |
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yayikka |
s. loud laughter |
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yellakka |
adv. at present; now; this moment; to-day |
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yellakkanta |
adv. just now |
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yellakkiana |
adj. new; fresh |
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yellambambatti |
Stage 2 to manhood from ngulta |
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yellamuka |
s. the calf of the leg |
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yellara |
adv. already; to-day |
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yellarkarri |
adv. to-morrow; also see Yellatarkarri |
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yellatarkarri |
adv. to-morrow; also see Yellarkarri |
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yeltanna |
adj. cool; airy; fresh; also see Yeltayelta |
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yeltayelta |
adj. cool; airy; fresh; also see Yeltanna |
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yeltendi |
v.n. to be or become cool; fresh |
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yeltiappendi |
v.a. to make cool |
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yeltu |
s. pelican |
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yemakki |
s. a species of owl |
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yenta |
adv. there; also see Yernta; as in Yerntarlo, in this direction; as in Yentanga, there below |
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yentanga |
there below |
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yerabutto |
full of earth; dirty |
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yerkandi |
v.a. to stretch; level |
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yerki |
s. a small animal burrowing in the earth; mole |
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yerkiwatpa |
s. a cloak made of the fur of the yerki |
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yerko |
s. leg |
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yerkoana |
s. a pair of trowser (n.t.); also see yerkoanulla |
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yerkoanulla |
dual pair of trowsers (n.t.); also see Yerkoana |
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yerkobalta |
s. stocking (n.t.) |
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yerkongaitya |
adj. of feeble legs; bad traveler |
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yerkunda |
s. prop; support; pillar |
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yerli |
Fatherr; also see yerlitta, yerlimeyu |
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yerli |
father's brother |
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yerli |
s. male; the reverse of ngangki, female |
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yerliburka |
s. male; male child; son |
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yerlimeyu |
s. father; also see yerlitta |
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yerlinna |
s. husband |
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yerlinnutanna |
adj. having no husband; unmarried |
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yerlitta |
s. father; also see yerlimeyu |
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yerlo |
s. sea |
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yerlomarta |
s. coil; as in Yerlomarta tikkandi, to sit with the legs underneath |
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yerltendi |
v.a. to advise; persuade; command; also see Yerltirendi |
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yerlteriburka |
s. counsellor; adviser; commander |
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yerltirendi |
v.a. to advise; persuade; command; also see Yerltendi |
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yernakki |
species of owl |
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yernbanna |
s. a species of red ochre brought from the far North with which the face and other parts of the body are painted |
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yernda |
adj. large; wide; as in kurru yernda, a large vessel, pot etc. |
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yerndoko |
s. a species of duck |
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yernka |
s. the beard of the chin; used by the northern tribes; the same as malta |
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yernkandi |
v.n. to hang down, on; to join; impart; infect, as with a disease; to depend; as naalityanungko parna yernki, they depend, i.e. they got (it) from you |
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yernkappendi |
v.a. to make hang; to hang up; infect |
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yernkayernkanya |
adj. hanging; as in ta yernkayernkanya, sulky infecting; contagious; as in yernkayernkaya koko, a contagious disease |
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yernkayernkaya koko |
a contagious disease |
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yernta |
adv. there; also see Yenta; as in Yerntarlo, in this direction; as in Yentanga, there below |
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yerntarlo |
in this direction |
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yerra |
pron.indef. expressing the notions of individuality and reciprocity; distinct; different; one another; both; reciprocally; as in yerra pungoring adli, let us two fight with each other; as in Yarra padne adli, let us go separately; let us part. |
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yerra pungoring adli |
let us two fight with each other |
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yerrabula |
dual number four; see the singular form yerra |
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yerrabula |
number four |
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yerrabula kuma |
number five |
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yerrabula purlaitye |
number six |
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yerrabulakuma |
number five |
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yerrabularlukko |
adv. four times |
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yerrakartarta |
scattered; disorderly; without design; at random |
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yerrarendi |
v.n. to incline to either side; to be uncertain; not determined; to doubt |
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yerta |
s. earth; land; soil; country; as in yertangga murrendi, to walk |
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yerta biritti |
cricket |
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yerta bukko |
bare ground |
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yerta takanna |
open plain; steppes; prairie |
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yerta turto |
a clod of earth |
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yertabiritti |
s. cricket |
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yertabukko |
bare ground |
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yertakungurla |
s. a small species of scorpion |
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yertalla |
s. water running by the side of a river; inundation; cascade |
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yertamalyo |
s. a alight elevation of the country; slope; hill |
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yertameyu |
s. countryman (very likely a foreign compound) |
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yerthoappendi |
v.a. to rear; bring up; educate |
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yerthondi |
v.n. to grow |
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yirtpendi |
v.a. to turn the inside out |
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yitpi |
v. seed; as in Yitpi tukutya, the human soul |
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yitpi tukutya |
the human soul |
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yoka |
s. the hair of the head |
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yoka biltend |
to cut the hair |
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yokabiltitti |
s. a pair of scissors |
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yokamukartiana |
s. hair cap; cap made of hair |
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yokawirkatti |
s. hair comb; hair brush |
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yokko atto nakki |
I have not seen it |
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yoko |
s. ship; as in Bakkayoko, a canoe as used by the Murray tribes |
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yokomattanya |
s. owner of a ship; captain; gentleman |
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yokunna |
adj. crooked; curled; bad; as in Yokunna warra, untrue or false statement; offensive language |
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yokunnendi |
v.inch. to become or be crooked; to turn; wind; meander |
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yombo |
porpoise |
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yudlondi |
v.a. to shove; push; drive |
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yudna |
A pubic covering. |
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yudna |
s. the covering over the male pubes, made of either grass or opossum, only initiated men were allowed to wear this covering |
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yulda |
s. noon; the same as kuranna |
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yuldamai |
s. dinner |
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yuldamai |
lunch |
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yuldamaimunto |
having had dinner |
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yulti |
s. stringy-bark tree. Yulti wirra, stringy-bark forest |
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yultiwirra |
stringy-bark forest. |
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yumengandandi |
to be or become angry; provoked |
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yumo |
s. the back; as nantoyumungga tikkandi, to ride on horseback |
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yunga |
s. brother; perhaps elder brother; also see Yungalya, Yungata; also see panyappi. |
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yungala |
younger brother |
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yungalya |
s. brother; perhaps elder brother; also see Yunga, Yungata; also see panyappi. |
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yungata |
s. brother; perhaps elder brother; also see Yunga, Yungalya; also see panyappi. |
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yungatanggulla |
s. two brothers; also see Yungataurla |
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yungataurla |
s. two brothers; also see Yungatanggulla |
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yungayungaworta |
s. brother in a more general sense; friend; applied to men of another amicable tribe |
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yunggallunggulla |
s. giver; giving; as in Mai yungullunggulIa, liberal; bounteous |
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yungondi |
v.a. to give; impart; communicate; as in warra yunggorendi, to inform; give intelligence; also see Yungoriappendi, Yungorendi |
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yungorendi |
v.a. to give; impart; communicate; as in warra yunggorendi, to inform; give intelligence; also see Yungoriappendi, Yungondi |
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yungoriappendi |
v.a. to give; impart; communicate; as in warra yunggorendi, to inform; give intelligence; also see Yungondi, Yungorendi |
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yura |
s. a Iarge snake, or other monstrous and imaginary being. Yura is believed to be the author of circumcision who first taught it to their ancestors and who punishes the neglect of it. |
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yurakauwe |
s. the dark spots in the Milky Way thought to be large ponds in the wodlipari and the residence of the aquatic monster Yura |
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yurinda |
s. skin; as in pilta yurinda, opossum skin |
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yurinna |
s. left; the left band or side; left-banded |
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yurlandi |
v.n. to drop; dribble |
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yurlo |
s. forehead |
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yurlondi |
v.n. to spring up; come forth; appear; also see Yurlurendi |
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yurlopuiyopuiyori |
adj. serious; grave |
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yurlurendi |
v.n. to spring up; come forth; appear; also see Yurlondi |
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yurne |
s. throat |
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yurneana |
s. neck-handkerchief (n.t.) |
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yurneitya |
adj. angry; provoked |
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yurnti |
adj. heavy |
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yurnto |
A small bag or pouch attached to the gadlotti. |
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yurnto |
s. a small bag or pocket |
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yurre |
s. ear |
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yurre ingarnendi |
to listen |
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yurrekaityandi |
v.a. and n. to hear; be attentive; obey; also see Yurrekurrendi |
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yurrekurrendi |
v.a. and n. to hear; be attentive; obey; also see Yurrekaityandi |
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yurretarrendi |
v.n. to be disobedient; obstinate |
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yurretinna |
adj. deaf; disobedient; obdurate |
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yurringga wanggandi |
to speak to somebody |
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yurringgarnendi |
v.a. to listen |
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yurrirka |
adj. attentive; obedient |
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yurrirkandappendi |
v.a. to make attentive; obedient |
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yurrirkandendi |
v.n. to become or be attentive; obedient |
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yurro |
s. joke; jest. Yurro warra, jocose expression. Yurro wanggandi, to speak in joke; to jest |
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yurro |
a species of small lizard |
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yurro wanggandi |
to speak in joke; to jest |
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yurro warra |
jocose expression |
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yurrondi |
v.n. to creep; sneak; steal upon; also see yurrurendi |
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yurrurendi |
v.n. to creep; sneak; steal upon; also see Yurrondi |
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yurtni |
adj. heavy; not light; the reverse of baltarta |
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yutika |
s. black cockatoo |
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yutuke |
s. the sweet sap of the yacka plant (grass-tree) |
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yuwandi |
v.n. to stand; stop; remain |
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yuwanyappendi |
v.a. to make stand; to raise; also see yuwappendi |
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yuwappendi |
v.a. to make stand; to raise; also see yuwanyappendi |