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Search Type: Bundjalung
All dialects
| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| dubay | Aboriginal woman ; dark-skinned woman of any race | people | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | Listen | [more] |
| -le- | All | [more] | |||
| -lehny | antipassive + imminent aspect ; reflexive + imminent aspect | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -li, -le | continuous, repetitive | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -lu | ergative suffix on demonstratives | All | [more] | ||
| -leh | imperative (repetitive, reflexive or continuous) | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -lehn | imperfective aspect with antipassive | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| lagumbi- | lock up | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -li(h) | nominaliser | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -l | one able to perform an action | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -lur(u), -lu | past ; finished action | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -lehla | progressive | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -li, -le | reflexive ; antipassive | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| All | [more] | ||||
| yiruhl | All | [more] | |||
| wangma- | All | [more] | |||
| -ngu | All | [more] | |||
| -ngin | All | [more] | |||
| nyangga-, nganggi- | All | [more] | |||
| wahngmalihginy(gan) | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| jabih- | All | [more] | |||
| ngaban, ngabany | All | [more] | |||
| midjul | All | [more] | |||
| man.gagin | All | [more] | |||
| jihgay | All | [more] | |||
| -n | #NAME? | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| wayri ngulungargin | 'king' of a tribe | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| -djari | (?) | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| geyga- | .g. down ; descend ; set (of sun) | natural_environment | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| babi | ablaze | food | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| wubin + -an.ga- | able, be | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| mibiny | Aboriginal man ; person ; face ; know (Wi) ; Aboriginal(s) (M) | people | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| guri | Aboriginal person ; person, Aboriginal | people | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| mirindjin, mirangdjin (?) | Aboriginal woman 30-50 years old ; woman (Aboriginal 30-50 yrs old) | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| jalgany | Aboriginal woman ; Goori woman ; woman, Aboriginal | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| dugalgan | Aboriginal woman ; Goori woman ; woman, Aboriginal ; woman, Goori | people | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| mirungmir | Aboriginal woman ; woman, Aboriginal | people | Middle Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| gunaybidjbu | Aborigines | people | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| way | above | location | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| dugun | above ; on top ; sky | location | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] |
