Wadeye Song Database

Songtext
Interlinear

kalele yekpa panmumurldim

kura mimbi mimbiya

kalele yekpa panmumurldim

kura mimbi mimbiya

kalele yekpa panmumurldim

kura mimbi mimbiya

kalele yekpa panmumurldim

kura mimbi mimbiya

020.A

kalele yekpa panmumurldim

%8 eqq.qqeqq.h

Mother, fresh water crocodile, It's boggy...

kalele

kale

mother

noun

-redup

-Redup

yekpa

fresh_water_crocodile

noun

panmumurldim

pan

3sS.23.nFut

FinV

-mumurl

-cause_to_sink

-Cov

=dim

=3sS.1_sit.nFut

=SerFinV

020.B

kura mimbi mimbiya

%8 eryq.ry_qeh(_e_q_q._q_q._h)

where there's swamp grass growing on the water.

kura

water

NomCl

mimbi

swamp_grass

noun

mimbiya

mimbi

swamp_grass

noun

-ya

-Dub

-Part

Elicitation date: 2005-06-23

Annotation quality: Tick

Annotated by: Linda Barwick and Joe Blythe

Annotator's note:

At Tjinyi, which is in the Kultjil clan estate, Lawrence Kolumboort's mother's country, there is nandji mimbi growing on the water. Lawrence called his mother Yekpa since this is one of her totems.