Wadeye Song Database

Songtext
Interlinear

Ngurrumilern karlatj mulumulu thakuny kuku

dembintjimnumbardagathuwurranya

Ngurrumilern karlatj mulumulu thakuny kuku

dembintjimnumbardagathuwurranya

Ngurrumilern karlatj mulumulu thakuny kuku

dembintjimnumbardagathuwurranya

003.A

Ngurrumilern karlatj mulumulu thakuny kuku

@4 eryq.eq.eryq.eheh

Ngurrumilern, your elder brother Left Hand [Mayamunggum] is there [dancing].

Ngurrumilern

ngurrumilern

man's_name

PrName

karlatj

elder_sibling

noun

mulumulu

M:Kunybinyi_word

MKW

thakuny

left

adj

kuku

there

dem

003.B

dembintjimnumbardagathuwurranya

%8 eryq.eq.eryq.q.E

He drops on one knee with one arm raised the other lowered and momentarily bows his head.

dembintjimnumbardagathuwurranya

dem

3sS.21_RR.nFut

FinV

-wintjimnum

-while_dancing_drop_on_one_knee_with_one_hand_up_one_hand_down_and_head_bowed_for_a_moment

-Cov

-warda

-after_that

-adv

-gathu

-towards

-Part

=wurran

=3sS.6_go.nFut

=SerFinV

-ya

-Dub

-Part

Elicitation date: 2005-07-15

Annotation quality: Tick

Annotated by: Linda Barwick and Joe Blythe

Annotator's note:

The demonstrative kuku is not well understood. What (if anything) mulumulu means remains to be determined, and accordingly we have not represented it in the translation.