Wadeye Song Database

Songtext
Interlinear

kardu djanba djanba numidharru wurdanthuk ngakumarl mantjigat yingamyerrarrdim Wadeye wardarraya

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kardu djanba djanba numidharru wurdanthuk ngakumarl mantjigat yingamyerrarrdim Wadeye wardarraya

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He sent one Djanba man on his own to Wadeye, where the totems, red-collared lorikeets (Trichoglossus rubritorquis), were already flying around together.

kardu

human

NomCl

djanba

spirit_of_Dimirnin_clansmen

noun

djanba

spirit_of_Dimirnin_clansmen

noun

numidharru

one_on_his_own

adj

wurdanthuk

wurdan

3sS.29.nFut

FinV

-thuk

-send_an_object/person

-Cov

ngakumarl

totem

noun

mantjigat

red-collared_lorikeet

noun

yingamyerrarrdim

yingam

3sS.25.nFut

FinV

-yerrarr

-fly_in_a_group

-Cov

=dim

=3sS.1_sit.nFut

=SerFinV

Wadeye

wadeye

place_name

noun

wardarraya

wardarra

already

adv

-ya

-Dub

-Part

Elicitation date: 2005-07-15

Annotation quality: Tick

Notes on annotation quality: Bathuk sent his younger brother Mayamunggum to Wadeye to mind the red-collared lorikeets.

Annotated by: Linda Barwick and Joe Blythe

Annotator's note:

Bathuk sent his younger brother Mayamunggum to Wadeye to mind the red-collared lorikeets.