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-aal: self
-al: at
ala: listen
alayiny: listening
alidja: that
alidjap: that place
alikwadja: beginning
alikwadjakang: from the beginning
alimarn: as
aliny: listening
alo: to listen
anbagbat-yan: lost
anbangbat: lose
anbangbat-yan: lost
-ang: of [-ang after a consonant (eg Jacob-ang, Adam-ang), -kang after a vowel sound (eg Joshua-kang, Judah-kang)]
-ap: place
arbiny: become
arda: only, alone
arda nginda: until (only when)
arda yeyi: only now
baal: he
baalaal: himself
baalap: they
baalapaal: themselves
baalap-mokiny: like them
baalroo: his own
babanginy: lightning
babin: friend (ngooldjara also friend is used only for Jesus’ disciples in this book. It may mean brothers-in-law in some Nyoongar dialects)
babina: friends
babin-abini: to make/become friends
baka: touch (also maar-barrang=hold)
bakadjiny: fighting
bakadjo: to fight
bakatj: fight
bakatja: fight
bakkan: hurt, bite, harm, pain or suffer
bakkan wara: suffering, great pain
bakkanan: taste
bakkan-djil: great pain
bakkan-wara: suffer
baladjan: attack
balaparoo: their own
balarany: storm, gale
balaritj: cover
Balayi!: watch out!
balbayit: foolish
balbayit-waangkiny: silly talking
balingar: climb
balladja: attack
ballar: secretly, hidden
ballaridja: hide
ballar-yan: hidden, secret
bama: beat, hit or strike
bama-bama: beat
bama-bamo: to beat
bamakanrin: knock down
baminy: hitting or beating
bam-kadong: cut
banan: hole
banarak: property, possessions
banaraka: possessions, property, wealth
bandak: out, outside
bandak-barrang: bring out
bandak-koorl: go out
bandak-koorliny: going out
bandak-kwarda: throw out
bandak-yaaka: stand outside
bandak-yekan: drive out
banditjiny: shining, glorious
bandjat: bright, shiny
bandjatiny: shining (or glory)
bando: really
bandojil: certainly
bangal: buy, trade, exchange
bangal-barrang: buy
bangal-yanga: borrow, exchange, sell
bangka: part, some, half, chapter, piece
bangka maya-maya: room, (‘part of house’)
bangka-bwora: inside part
banidja: use
banitj: use
banitja: use
banitja-birt: without use
banya: sweat
banyadak: heavy (‘sweat-making’)
bardang: jump
bardip: proverb, story, parable (can mean ‘lie’ but only in the sense of ‘tall stories’, or ‘telling stories’ about someone)
bardip-karni: true story
barnak: in public
barnan: clean
barnang: sweep
barr: rough
barra-barra: heal
barra-barra-yan: healed
barrang: bring, hold
barrang mereny: got bread
barrang-ballar: close
barrang-bida: shut the door
barrang-djakan: break down
barrang-djinang: show, reveal (‘bring see’) (‘hold see’)
barrang-dwangka: remember (ear-hold)
barrang-dwangkak: to remember
barranginy: getting, taking
barranginy-ngandabat: salvation
barrang-ngandabat: save, bring life (‘bring life or hold life’)
barrang-yalgawa: keep
barrang-yalgawal: keep
barrang-yan: taken
barrang-yira: raise
barrit: cheat, deceive
barritiny: deceiving
bayinya: if
bedik-bedik: gentle, quietly, rest
bella: excellent
benang: tomorrow
bibi: breast, milk
bida: gate, door
bidibaba: tired
bidiya: paths
bidjar: sleep
bidjara: asleep, sleeping
bilang: push
billan: lift
bilya: river
bilyan: untie, take off
bilyan-yan: untied
bilyar: empty
bilyar-yan: emptied
binari: light
-bini: become, get
biny: become, get
-biny: become
birdiyar: boss
Birdiyar: Lord
birdiyar djonany-karinyang: judge, boss of the trial
Birdiyar mammarapang bakadjiny: boss of the soldiers
Birdiyar Yakina-Kooranyi: High Priests (‘Boss Priests’)
birdiyara: bosses (Capital B, Lord)
Birdiyara Yakina-Kooranyi: Chief Priests
Birdiyara Yakina-Kooranyiyang: Chief Priests
Birdiyarang–Mereny: The Lord’s Meal/Supper
birdiyaritj: rule
Birdiyar-Yira Yakina-Kooranyiyang: High Priest
birok: year, summer
biroka: years (‘summers’)
biroka kadak: years old (summers had)
birrba: a sore
birrba-birrba: covered in sores
birrigon: silver, glistening
birrikon: shine, brightness
-birt: without
bitj: dry
biyan: dig
biyang: lightly
biyano: to dig
bogala: graves
bogal-wara: stooped, (‘back bad’), disabled
bokadja: there
boni-nanookawin: kneel (boni means knee)
boodjari: pregnant
boodjer: ground
Boodjer: Kingdom, country
Boodjer Boolanga Yira Djelyibiny: Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven (‘God’s Country Ruling’)
Boodjer Boolanga-Yira Djeyibiny: Kingdom of Heaven
Boodjer Boolanga-Yirang Djelyibiny: Kingdom of God (‘The Country God Rules’’)
Boodjera: World (capital B)
Boodjera Boolanga-Yiragang: Heaven, Country of God
boodjera kwolakang: wheat field (‘ground for grain’)
boodjer-djildjiyang: orchard, vineyard (‘land for fruit’)
boola: many, much
boola boya-kadak: rich, have much money
boola moorta: crowd, many people
boolanga: most
boola-ngatti: much more
Boolanga-Yira: God (‘Most High’)
Boolanga-Yirakang–Boodjer: Heaven (God’s Country)
Boolanga-Yirakang Boodjer: Heaven, Country of God
Boolanga-Yirakang Boodjer wer ngalang Boodjer: Heaven and Earth (‘God’s Country and our Country’)
Boolanga-Yirakany Waangki: pray, talk to God
Boolanga-Yirang Boodjer: Heaven (‘Land of God’)
Boolanga-Yirang Boodjer Djelyibiny: Kingdom of God (The Country God Rules)
Boolanga-Yirang Boodjera: Heaven (God’s Country)
Boolanga-Yirany waangkiny: Prayer, talking to God
booliyak: bullock
booliyaka: cattle
boomabara: wound
booma-boyak: grind (with stone)
boomboorman: enemies
boonan: opening
boongal: beside, side
booram: in front
boorda: will, would (future tense)
boorda-don: will do
boordak: write, near/close
boordakiny: writing
Boordakiny-Kooranyi: Scriptures (Holy Writing)
boordak-koorl: approach, come near
boordak-yan: written
boordang: jump, flee, fly
boorn: tree, log
boorna: trees
boornoo: roof
boornoora: autumn
boorn-yambo: cross, (crossed tree)
boorn-yaniny: walking stick (‘wood-walking’)
boorong: having, with
booyal: south
bordak-yan: written
bowan: light, kindle
boya: money (coin, tax, stone))
boya-barranginy: money collecting
boya-birt: moneyless
boya-boola-kadak: has much money, rich
boya-kwarditj: stone (to death)
boyal: east
boyang: far, far off, far away
boyara: coins (‘stones’)
boyin: oil
boyin koorayinang: olive oil
boyin-bandin: perfume (‘oil sweet smell’)
bwok: clothing
bwoka: clothes, clothing (Kangaroo skin)
bwoka noyitjang: grave clothes, clothes of the dead
bwokooda: skin bottle/container
bwokoota: container, skin bag, jar
bwora: within, inside
bwora-koorl: go inside, enter
bwora-koorlo: to go in (UP TO HERE)
bwora-koornoo: push in
bworan: old man
bworana: elders, old men
dabakarn: slow
dabat: slow
dakan: break
dalanga: hunt, fish for
dalba: dust, ash, speck, waste
dalbada: bright, very white
dal-koodjal: hypocrite (‘double tongue’)
dal-koodjalak: hypocrite (two tongue)
dambarritj: bury
dandjo: together, each other
dandjo-barrang: bring together
dandjo-dandjo: together
dandjo-dandjo-barranga: gather together
dandjo-nyiny: sit together
dandjo-yana: walk together
danjo: together
darang: spill
darba: stoop
dargang: kill
dargang boornal: crucify, kill on a tree
darganga boornil: crucify, kill on a tree
dargang-yan: killed
dargang-yan boornal: crucified
darkal: straight
darnayan: terrible
darnayan-djil: very terrible, very terrified
darnayaniny: terrifying
dedin: close, block, shut
dendang: mount, get on
dengkoor: cover up, wrap
dengkoor-yan: covered
didara: middle
didara-kadik: midnight
dinang: carry on shoulder
djaa: mouth
djaadj: meat
djaat: criticise, tell off, rebuke
djaatj: meat
djaatja: meat
djabalar: fall
djabalariny: falling
djabano: to pick up, to gather
djabban: pick up, pick
djadam: hard
djadam boya: solid rock
dja-dediny: shut up (‘mouth-shut’)
djakan: break
djakanak: to destroy, to break
djakan-oola: let break
djakan-yan: destroyed
djakarn: break
djakoorl: ran
djalang: tongue
djalinyan: lick
djallam: salt
djandarn: mend
djang: needle, ghost
djarnyak: must
djarp: knife, sword
djedari: brown
djelibakang nyinyapa: thrones, kings’ sitting places
djelyib: king
Djelyib moortakang Judea-kang: King of the Jews, King of the people of Judea
Djelyib Rome-ang: Emperor, King of Rome
djelyiba: kings
djena: feet
djena bwoka: shoes
djena-bwoka: shoe, foot clothes
Djenak: the Devil, Satan (capital D)
djenaka-wara: evil spirits
djenak-wara: evil spirit
djena-ngarda: under foot
djendjerin: pass
Djendjeriny-Yira: Passing Over
djeral: north
djeran-yan: torn
djeroob: happy
djerramin: wake up
djert: bird
djerta: birds
djertamaya: nest
dji: moment
djijdjita: fish
djikal: at a moment
djikang: briefly (‘for a moment’)
-djil: very
djilba: spring
djilbar: grass
djilbiga: herbs, leaves
djilbika: leaves
djildji: fruit
djildjit: fish
djildjita: fish
djildjitiny: fishing
djillab: sharp
-djin: same, like
djinang: see
djinang-kaaditj: recognise (see know)
djinang-karni: believe (see true)
djinango: to see
djinang-oola: let see
djinang-waangki: read (see-say)
djinang-waangko: to read (‘see-say’)
djinara: roots
djin-bama: condemn, punish
djin-bama-yan: punished (punish + yan)
djinbaminy: punishment (adding ap gives Djinbaminyap – Hell, ‘Punishing place’)
djin-baminy: punishment
Djinbaminyangap: Hell, Punishment place, (-ap – place)
Djinbaminyap: Punishment Place, Hell
djin-bamo: to punish
djinbarranga: find
djinbarrangak: to find
djinbarranga-yan: found
djinda: stars
djin-dijn-kwabba: angel, good spirit
djin-dina-kwabba: angels
djin-djina-kooranyi: angels
djin-djina-kwabba: angels
djin-djin-kwabba: angel (‘spirit good’)
djinnara: roots
djiran: torn apart
djirin: accuse
djirina: accuse
djiriny: accusing
djit: hole
djiyak: until
djona-karra: tempt, test (‘reveal conduct’)
djonany-kariny: trial, testing
djonany-karriny: testing
djoniny-karriny: testing
djook: sister
djooka: sisters
djookoorn: pull
djoomba: hair
djoorab: happy, glad
djoorab-djil: very happy
djoorab-djoorab: excited, very happy
djoorab-djoorab-djil: much happiness
djoorabiny: happily
djooroot: path, way, raod
djooroot doniny-karrinyang: temptation, the path of testing
djoorootal: on the road
djoowak: descendant, generation
djoowaka: descendants
djooworl: left
djora: drink
djoriny: drinking
djoriny-karriny: testing, temptation
dombart: alone
don: do, did
dongki: donkey
doniny: doing, obeying
dono: to do
don-oola: let do
dookarn: cook
dookoon: light, karla-maat – lamp, fire-stick
dookoon-yan: alight
doombart: alone
doomboo: womb
doora: should, really, surely
doora kwadja: would have
doora-barrang: should get
doorgool: straight
dordong: around, ring
dorl-dorl: knock
dornamakariny: war
dwangka: ear(s), heard, hear, listen to
dwangka-anbangbat: forget (‘ear lose)’
dwangka-birgi: confused, (‘ear-sore’)
dwangka-birt: deaf (‘ear without’)
dwangka-boola: wise (‘ear much’)
dwangka-don: obey (hear-do)
dwangka-yan: heard
dwangkiny: listening
dwangko: to hear
dwanka: hear
dwankiny: hearing
dwert: dog
dwerta: dogs
dwordoka: pigs
edjena: happen, come true
edjena-oola: may happen, let happen (-oola = let)
edjeniny: happening
idja: put
-il: adding -il or -(y)il marks the strong subject of the sentence
John-Kakaloorniny: John the Baptist (‘John Washing’)
ka: or
kaa!: enough! baka – touch
kaaditj: know, think
kaaditj-bini: become known
kaaditjiny: thinking, knowledge
kaaditjinyal: in mind, in knowledge
kaanba: wings
kaarang: angry
kaaranga-mira: shout angrily
kaaranga-waangki: angry talk
kaarang-bini: get angry
kaarang-kaarang: very angry
kaat: head, mind
kaat kwedja: skull
kaata: heads
kabarli: old woman
kabin: perhaps
kadak: own, possess, have
kadik: night
kadik-bini: becoming dark
kadjali: distant, far
kadjat: cut
kadjir: also
kadjit: space, sky
kai!: wow! (surprise)
kai-kai: surprised, amazed
kai-kai-djil: very surprised
kakaloornak: to baptise
kakaloorni: wash, baptize
kakaloorniny: washing, baptism
kakatar: prepare
kakatariny: preparing
kakoodjen: hurry
kakoodjeno: to hurry
kalarak: hot, feverish
kalbang: move
kalyakool: forever, always
kalyakool ngandabat: eternal life, life always, life for ever
kalyaminy: false, lying
kalyara: meet
kalyat: cheek
kamak: kamak berry
kambarn: follow, accompany
kambarng: guess
kambarniny: following
kambart: daughter-in-law
kamo: around
kana: step, tread
kana-kana: trample
-kang: of [-ang after a consonant (eg Jacob-ang, Adam-ang), -kang after a vowel sound (eg Joshua-kang, Judah-kang)]
kanga: take, bring, carry
kango: to carry
kangya: spirit
Kangya-Kooranyi: Holy Spirit
kaniny: trampling, treading
kanna: step
kannar: chance
kanya: keep
kanyak: smooth
kanyiny: keeping
karakor: old
karbala: afternoon
karbarli: old woman
kard: hill, mountain
Kard Koorayinang: Mount of Olives
karda: hills
karda-dakkan: divide (‘half-break’)
karda-dakkaniny: division, dividing
karda-dakkan-yan: divided
kardakoor: among
kardakor: among, between
kardi: amazed (This translation tries to use kai-kai for surprise, a sudden reaction, and kardi for the more enduring feeling of amazement)
kardiny: amazing
kardjal: cool
kardjat: cut
kardjatiny: cut, circumcise
kardjir: too, also
Kard-Koorayinang: Mount of Olives
karla: fire
karlaka: urge
karla-kooranyi: altar (‘sacred fire’)
karla-maat: fire stick
karlamaya: village, camp, town
karlamayaka: towns
karlang: hot
karlap: home (fire place)
-karlap: person of ( fire place ie, where your fire is). Added to a place name eg Galilee-karlap, it means Galileean)
karnabirt: wrong (without truth)
karnany: truth
karnany edjena: come true (‘truly happen’)
karnarny: truth
karnayal: truly
karni: true
karni-waangka: teach
karni-waangki: teach
karni-waangkiny: teaching (‘truth saying’)
karnya: shame, ashamed
karra: behave, conduct
karrab: hole, cave
karraba: cave
karradjal: trouble
karra-wara: badly behaved
karriny: behaving
karro: back
karrodjin: look after
karro-waangki: speak again
kati-kati-waangki: whisper (‘silent talk’)
katj: hammer, nail
katta: top
kawa: laugh
kaya: yes
kayalar: meet
kayan: nothing
kayan-kadak: having nothing
kayar: can, could
kayar-djinang: can see
kayar-wining: can live
kayida: soon
kedela: day
Kedela Barnanang: Day of Cleansing (‘Purification ’)
Kedela Kooranyi: Sabbath Day
kedela maar-koodjal: week (‘day-seven’)
kedela ngarninyang wer djorinyang: feast day, day of eating and drinking
kedela ngomon: big day
kedela wer kadik: day and night
Kedela-Djoniny-Karriny: Day of Judgement
kedelaka koorliny: days to come, coming days
Kedela-Kooranyi: Sabbath (‘Holy Day’)
kedelara: days
Keny: the One, the Messiah
keny arda nop: one only son
Keny Boolanga Yira Waangki-Koorl: Messiah, One God Sends
Keny Boolanga Yira Waangki-Koorliny: The One God is Sending, The Messiah
Keny Boolanga-Yira Waangki-Koorl: Messiah (‘The One God Sends’)
Keny Boolanga-Yira Waangki-Koorliny: Messiah (‘One God is Sending’)
Keny Mammarap: The One Man (ie the Messiah)
kenyang: for one, also of one
kenyap: one place, any place
Keny-Barranginy-Ngandabat: Saviour (‘One Bringing Life’)
keny-keny: several, a few, some
kepa: water, rain
kepa-mardayin: liquor, wine
kepa-moorditj: strong liquor
kert-kert: quickly
kidikot: goat
kidji ngarl: and so
kin-kin: pretend
kinyak: enough
kitj: spear, kidja – spears
kitja: spears, bama – strike
kiyaloor: meet
kobatan: betray
kobat-kobatan: betray
kobin: hide
kobina: secrets
kobinap: secret place (secret + ap)
koboorl-wirt: hungry
kobori: dance
koboriny: dancing.
koborl-wirt: hungry (without stomach)
kol: name, call
kola: names
kolal: in the name
kolal Jesus-ang: in the name of Jesus
kolboga: fig tree
kolboka: fig tree
koli: name
kolitj: to name
kolitjo: to name
kolitj-yan: called
kol-yan: called
kolyar: yeast, powder
kongal: south
kooda: string nets or bags, box, container, bowl
kooda koort-koortiny: begging bag
kooda-boya: jar (‘stone container’)
kooda-boyang: purse
koodjal: two, they two pronoun, couple
koodjalang: their (two people)
koodjookat: ahead
koodjooookat: before, in front
kookendjeri: sheep
koolamata: virgin
koolambidi: young man
koolyangarra: crumbs
koolyarn: crush
koolyi: lie
koolyiny: lying
koolyooma: lies
koolyoomitj: tell lies
koonang: manure, dung
koondarm: vision, dream
koondart: cloud
koondi: club
kooniny: young child
koora: long ago
kooramba: everywhere
Kooranyap: Holy Place
kooranyi: holy
Kooranyi Boodjera: Holy Country
koorayin: olive
koordook: want
koordookiny: wanting
koordoonitj: soul
koordor: noise
koorgong: tremble, shiver
koorilkar: a low bush
koorlang: child
koorlangka: children
koorlangka-birt: without children
koorlangweta: born
koorlang-yidja: bear a child
koorl-djinang: search, look for (‘go-see’)
koorl-oola: let go
koorn: shove
koort: heart
koort maat: wife
koorta: hearts
koorta-barrang: marry
koorta-kadakiny: wedding
koorta-keny-bini: come to an agreement (‘heart one become’)
koorta-kenyiny: agreement (one heart)
koortamayara-kwabba: healthy
koort-bakkan: desire
koort-bama: embrace (heart hit)
koort-djal: hate (‘heart evil’)
koort-djinang: desire (heart see)
koort-kadak: marry
koort-karni: faith (‘heart truth’)
koort-karni-birt: faithless (‘without faith’)
koort-karniny: faithfully
koort-keny: agree
koort-koort: beg
koort-koortiny: begging
koort-kwabba: glad, mercy
koort-kwabba-djil: overjoyed (‘heart very good’)
koort-kwidiny: hoping (heart waiting)
koort-maat: wife spouse, wedding
koort-ngarda: upset (‘heart down’)
koortoomitj: soul
koort-wara: sad, sorrow
koort-wara-djil: very stressed
koort-wara-wara: despair, grief
koort-yanga: trust (‘heart give’)
koota-kwabba: happy, good heart
koot-kwabba: joy (‘heart good’)
koot-wara-djil: very sad
korad: short
korang: turn
kordja: aside, separately
koridjat: before
koriyat: first
korl-barrang: get back
korl-djinang: look for, seek, search
korl-djinanginy: looking for
korl-koorl: come back
korl-korang: turn back
korl-miyalitj: look back
korl-yanga: give back
korram: while
kortamayara-kwabba: healthy
koryat: first
kowa: cliff
kowart: daughter
kowarta: daughter
koyitj: axe
kwabba: good, right
kwabba kinyak: good enough, worthy
kwabba warnak: to repair (‘make good’)
kwabba-bini: become well
kwabbadjil: very good
kwabba-djil: righteous, very good, wise, best, wonderful
kwabbalitj: beautiful
kwabba-ngatti: better
kwabba-waangk: praise
kwabba-waangki: speak well
kwadja: have, had etc (past tense)
kwadja-barrang: took
kwadjat: before, until
kwadja-yiraba: has risen
kwadjin: begin
kwadjininy: beginning
kwangkan: desert
kwarda: throw, fall
kwardo: to throw
kwetja: bone
kwibidji: escape
kwidiny: waiting
kwidjang: before, long ago
kwitj: at once
kwitjar: firmly
kwodjang: long time
kwolak: seed
kwolaka: seeds, grain
kwolaka yidja: produce grain
kwonding: quondong
kwonert: flour
kwoyalang: spirit
Levi-kang djoowak: descendant of Levi, Levite
maaman: father
maamana: fathers
maam-inram: ancestor
maam-inrama: ancestors
maar: five, hand, finger, branch
maara: arms
maara-barrang: take in arms, hold, graps, accept
maar-barrang: lay hands on (sometimes means hold)
maar-biri: fingernail
maar-djen: ten
maar-djen-keny: eleven
maar-djen-koodjal: twelve
maar-keny: six
maar-koodjal: seven
maar-koodjal-koodjal: nine
maar-ngwoornmoorn: right hand
maar-waangki: gesture (hand talk)
maar-yanga: help (‘hand give’)
maar-yanginy: helping
maar-yango: to help
maata: legs
maat-wara: lame (‘leg bad’)
maawit: baby
maay: voice
maaya: voice
mabo: outside
madji: rope
mala: lake
maladj: grow
maladja: grow
maladjiny: growing
maladj-oola: let grow
mala-mala: pieces
malar: lake
malatj: grow
malatja: grow
malgar: doctor, wise person
malitji: shadow
malka: doctor, clever person
malyak: begin
malyakiny: starting
malyarak: mid-day
mammarap: man
Mammarap Karni Judea-kang: Patriot, Zealot (‘True Man of Judea’)
mammarapa boya-barranginy: tax collectors (‘people taking money’)
Mammarapa Warrinyang: Law Men (‘Men of the Law’)
mammarapa-bakadjiny: soldiers, men of war
mammarapa-bakadjinyang: soldiers (‘men of fighting’)
Mammarapang Nop: Son of Man
Mammarapa-Warrinyang: Law Men
Mammarap-Warrinyang: Law Man
-man: all (only used for people) (eg mortaman – all people)
mana-barangka: diamond dove
mana-boorangka: dove (diamond dove)
manatja: police
manatja Maya-maya-Kooranyi: Temple police
mandak: country, bush
mandaka: bush
mandang: all
Mandjar: Festival, market
manga: young girl, trap, shoulder
mangat: mother-in-law
mango: to trap (manga=fish trap)
mania: flowers, wattles
manna-ngoonyang: incense (‘gum sweet’)
marawar: west
mara-yanga: help (‘hand give’)
mardakan: drown
mardayin: powerful, strong, strength
mardayinal: in strength, in power
mardayin-biny: become strong
mardayin-kaaditj: study (‘strongly think’)
mardayin-ngatti-biny: become stronger
mariny: weeping
marlaka: mallee
marlanga: prove
marlbarrang-yidja: pull up
marr: wind
marridja: move, travel journey
marridjiny: traveling, journey
maya: box, container
maya-maya boyang: bank (‘house of money’)
maya-maya dediny: gaol, shut house
maya-maya dedin-yan: gaol, (‘house closed’)
maya-maya dedinyang: prison, (house shut)
Maya-Maya Kalyara: Synagogue meeting house
Maya-maya Kooranyi: The Temple
maya-maya kwolakang: grain house, barn
maya-maya ngwoorndiny: inn, rest house
Maya-maya(ra)-Kalyara: synagogue(s) (‘meeting houses’)
Maya-maya-Kalyara: synagogues, meeting houses
Maya-maya-Kalyaragal: Synagogue, Meeting House
Maya-maya-Kooranyi: Temple (‘House Holy’)
maya-ngwoorndiny: bed
mayart: dark
mayirak: grieve
mereny: food, bread, barter
mereny wer djaadj: food (bread and meat)
Merenyang-Bargar: Thin Bread, Unleavened Bread
mika: moon, month (plural – mikara)
mila: later
milgar: new
mili-mili: paper (‘leaf’)
minditj: sick, diseased
minditj-wara: very sick
mingal: tear off, wear out, tears
mingitj: wrong
mira: call out
mira-yan: shouted
miriny: calling
mirlkoon: dish
miyal: eye
miyala: eyes, sight
miyala-birt: blind
miyala-djinanginy: sight, seeing eyes
miyalakal: in the eyes of, in the sight of
miyal-birt: blind
miyalitj: look
miyalitji: watch
miyalitjiny: looking
mo: three, a few
mo wer bangka: three and a half
mogong: strange
mokang: foreigner
mokiny: like, dingo
-mokiny: resemble
mokinya: dingos
moodlooka: everything
mooloor: loaf, cake
mooloora: loaves
moolyimari: face
moolyimarri: face
moonakiny: shine
moon-karng: send
moorart: fill, full
moorartiny: filling
moorartitj: fill
moordak: deep
moorditj: great
moorditj mardayin yirayen: great power from above
moorditj maya-maya: great houses, palaces
moorditj-moorditj: very great, glorious
moorditj-ngatti: much greater, greater
moorndin: back( of body)
moort yana-waangki: messenger (person walk-talk)
moorta: people
moorta boola-boola: crowd (many many people)
moorta boya-barranginy: tax collectors (‘people money collecting’)
Moorta Ngany Waangki-Koorl: Apostles (‘People I Send’)
moorta warda-kadak: seniors, important people
moorta yana-waangki: messengers (‘people-talk-walk’)
moorta-banitjiny: tenants, (‘people using’)
moorta-boordak: neighbours, people nearby
moortaman: all people
mooyang: adultery
morba menditj: skin disease
morba-minditj: skin disease (including leprosy)
morba-wara: skin disease
mord: hill
morda: hills
mordak: deep
mordakan: drown
mordibang: exhausted, worn out
morl-barrang: pull out
mornitj: thorn bush
mornitja: thorn bush
mo-waangki: speak a third time
Naa!: Ah!
naadjang: than
naadjil: why
naan-yaaka: wait, also stay
naan-yaakiny: stay, remain
naba: young, chicks etc
nabba: rub
nadjang: than
nadjil: why
nagal: calm, peace
nagalitj: calm
nakal: peace
nakalal: in peace, quietly
nanyar: fit, stiffen
nanyariny: fitting
naral: side
narla: because, for
narra: burn
narra-yan: burned
narridja: spit
narridja-kwarda: spit, (spittle-throw)
narriny: burning
narro: to burn
natj nidja: what’s this
nembing: bronze-wing pigeon
ngaangk: mother
ngaangk yira-koorl: the sun rises
ngaangk-yira: sun rise
ngaanyaal: myself
ngabalangornda: safe, True happiness
ngabatj: greedy
ngabatj koboorl: greedy
ngakaka: request, ask
ngakaka-marridjiny: messengers
ngakako: to ask
ngakalya: steal
ngakalyang: thief
ngakalyanga: thieves
ngalaal: ourselves
ngalan: how many
ngalen: winding
ngaliny: bending
ngambany: sign
ngambing: sign
nganaka: wait
nganakiny: waiting, expecting
nganala: need
nganayak: wait, expect
nganayaka: expect, wait for
ngandabat: life
ngandabat barrang: save life
ngandabata: lives
ngandabatak: to life
ngangk: sun, (this translation uses ngangk for sun and ngaangk with double aa for mother)
ngangk yira: sunrise
ngangk-djert: mother bird, hen
ngangk-ngardak: sun down
nganitj: stop, finish, end
nganitjiny: ending
nganitjo: to stop
ngank ngarda-koorl: sun set, sun goes down
ngank yira: sun rise
nganyaal: myself
nganyang: my
Nganyang Djelyib: My King, Your Majesty
nganyang kolal: in my name
ngaraka: lower
ngarda: down, low
ngarda- djabalar: fall down
ngarda-barrang: bring down
ngarda-bilang: hold down
ngarda–djil: lowest
ngardak: low
ngardaka: set, go down
ngarda-koorl: come down
ngarda-kwarditj: to throw down
ngardakwir: drop
ngardal: sink
ngarda-miro: call down
ngardanga: bottom
ngarda-ngatti: lowest
ngarda-nyiny: sitting beneath
ngarda-yidja: put down
ngarl: so
ngarl karro: so then
ngarn: consume, eat
ngarnala: need
ngarniny: eating, feeding
ngarniny ka djoriny: feasting, eating and drinking
ngarno wer djoro: to feast, (to eat and drink)
ngarnyap: table, eating place
ngarrak-ngarrak: side to side
-ngat: near
ngatta: more
ngatti: more
-ngatti: more
ngatti-ngatti: again and again
ngayaka: wait for
nginda: when
ngiyan: who
ngiyanga: waves
ngobiny: bleeding
ngolanga: after, from, behind, since
ngolonga: after
ngoming: lay
ngomon: large
ngomon bwoka: curtain, big cloth
ngomon karlamaya: big town, city
ngomon maya-maya djonany-karinyang: court house (‘big house of testing’)
ngomon-djil: bigger
ngooldjar: disciple
ngooldjara: disciples
ngooldjara-kambarna: disciple (‘friend-follow’)
ngooldjara-kambarniny: disciples (‘friend following)
ngooldjar-kambarn: disciple (friend-follow)
ngooloolong: relatives
ngoongoolong: family, relatives
ngoongoolonga: family, relatives
ngooni: brother
ngoonika: brothers
ngooniya: brothers
ngoonoolong: family, relatives
ngoonoolonga: relatives
ngoorndiny: sleeping, lying
ngoorndo: to sleep
ngoornmoorn: right, right hand
ngop: blood
ngorlak: tooth
ngorna-kwabba: merciful
ngornda: chest
ngort: horse
ngowort: shelter
ngwidam: solemn, serious, hard
ngwoordiny: lying
ngwoornda: lie down
ngwoorndak: to lie down, to sleep
ngwoorndin: bed
ngwoorndiny: lying, sleeping
ngwoorndinyap: resting place
ngwoorndo: to lie down
ngwoornmoorn: right hand
ni: listen
ni!: listen!
nidja: this
nidja kadik: tonight
nidja kedela: today
nidja-nidja: these
nidjap: this place
nindjan: kiss
nindyan: kiss
niran: plant
niraniny: planting
nirnt-daalang: scorpion (‘tail-tongue’)
niyandap: plain, flat place
nomaring: pity
nonookaal: yourselves (-aal = self)
noolong: a thing, something
noolonga: things
noolonga-djin: same thing
noolong-djin: same thing
nooloo: narrow
noonaal: yourself
noonookaal: yourselves
noonroo: your own
noorook: egg
nooyang: blow
nop: son
nopa: sons
noyitj: death
noyitja: dead
noyitj-yen: from the dead
nyamap: little bit
nyin: sit, stay
nyin kalyakool: lasts for ever
nyinap: seat, (sit place)
nyininy: staying, sitting
nyin-oola: let stay, let rest
nyiny: exist, be (to sit=to be), stay
–nyiny: to be (literally, to sit)
nyinya-nyinya: forgive
nyinya-nyinya-yan: forgiven (adding yan turns forgive into forgiven)
nyinya-nyinyiny: forgiveness
nyinyap: resting/sitting place (-ap = place)
nyit: little, small
nyitanga: smallest
nyit-djil: smallest
nyit-ngatti: smallest
nyit-nyit: tiny
nyoodjoowal: you two
nyootjoowal: you two
-oola: let (djinang-oola – let see)
-pa: might, may
Rome-kang Birdiyar: Roman Governor
-roo: own (noonookaroo=your own) ngooldjara-kambarn – disciples
Samaria-karlap: from Samaria (‘Samaria home’)
Syria-karlap: Syrian (-karlap = fire place, i.e. a Syrian is a person whose home or fireplace is in Syria)
tatan: stupid
tornamako: to protect
torotawa: burst
wa?: (makes a question) (exclamation at end of question)
waangka- djan: shout
waangka-djan: shout
waangki: say
waangki Boolanga-Yira: pray, speak to God
waangki Boolanga-Yirany: pray, talk to God
waangki dandjo-dandjo: discuss, speak together
waangki djan: scream
waangki warrinya noyitjang: speak the words of death, sentence to death
waangki-birt: without speech
waangki-djan: shout
waangki-djinang: ask question
waangki-djinanginy: questioning
waangki-koorl: send
waangki-kwabba: greet (speak good)
waangki-mardayin: command (‘speak strongly’)
waangkiny Boolanga-Yirany: praying, talking to God
waangki-waangki: argue
waangki-waangkiny: arguing
waangki-wort-koorl: send away
waangki-yonadji: be silent, not speak
waanki-koorl: send
wagal: snake
wakal: snake
walak: share
walak-walak: share, divide
walak-yanga: share out
walak-yidja: change
walbar: shore
walgar-kadak: guilty
waliny: weeping
wallar: careless
wal-wal: weep
walwaliny: crying
wal-waliny: weeping, crying
wambadin: proud
wandaberi: boat
wandang: wearing
wandanginy: wearing
wandang-yan: dressed
wandaniny: wondering
wandja: leave, go from
wandjo: to leave
wangarn: restrain
wanika: funeral
wanni: die
wanniny: dying
wanniyak: to death
war: way
wara-bakkan: injure, hurt badly
wara-banitja: misuse (‘bad using’)
wara-doniny: sinning, sins
waral: in the way
wara-morba: skin disease, leprosy
wara-ngatti: worse
waraniny: hanging
warariny: wronging, sinning
wara-waangki: insult (‘bad-talk’)
wara-wara: evil, very bad, sinful
wara-wara minditj: bad sickness, plague
wara-wara moort: criminal, evil person
wara-wara moorta: evil people, enemies
wara-wara yoka: bad women, prostitutes
wara-wara-djil: awful, very bad
warda: news
warda kadak: important
Warda Marridjiny: Prophet (‘News Traveling’)
warda-kadak: well-known, renowned
warda-kadaka: important men
Warda-Kwabba: Gospel (‘News Good’)
Warda-Marridjiny: prophet
Warda-Marridjinya: Prophets
wardanga: crows
wardarn: sea
war-djin: same way
warkata: seek (another word is korl-djinang, ‘go see’)
warlak-yidja: change
warlbar: coast
warma: other
warmap: another place
warn: make
warning: next
warniny: building
warn-wara: spoil, make bad
warranga: tell, preach
warranga-yan: told
warrangkiny: singing
warrin: word
Warriny: Law, Word
warrinya: words (small w. With capital W it means Law)
warrinya noyitjang: death sentence
warrin-yanga: promise, give word
wayarn: frightened, fear, afraid
wayarn-birt: without fear
wayarn-djil: very afraid
wayarn-djin: very afraid
wayarniny: fearful, anxious
wayarno: to fear
wedina: valley
wedjang: gather, harvest
wer: and (kidji also means ‘and’ when it joins longer phrases with verbs etc)
weyang: mix
windang: old
windji: where
winidjinbar: at that moment
wining: live
wininginy: living
wininy: living,live, alive
winyan: sorrow, sad, poor, afraid
winyana: poor
wiring: straight
wirt: weak
wobata: overflow
wobatiny: full, overflowing
wokart: through
wokart-koorl: spread, go through
wolang: wrap, wear
wolang bwoka: dress, put on clothes
woldjara: vultures
wondanga: loads
won-gin: green
woodjang: remote
woola: exclaim, shout excitedly, celebrate, rejoice
woola-wooliny: celebrating
woomboobiny: proudly
woonya: love, like
woonya-ngatti: love more
woori: long
woorla: moths
woorri: tall, high
worda: neck
worl: sky
wort: away
wort-bangal: sell
wort-barrang: take out, take away
wort-barrang-yan: taken away
wort-bilang: roll away
wort-kanga-yan: taken away
wort-koorl: go away
wort-koorl-oola: let go away, let depart
wort-koorna: push away
wort-korang: turn away from, reject
wort-korang-yan: rejected
wort-kwarda: throw away
wort-kwarditj: throw away
wort-waangki-koorl: send away, divorce
wort-yana: walk away
wort-yanga: give back, give away
wort-yaniny: walking away
yaaka: stand
yaakiny: standing
yadarn: tie up
yadarn-yan: chained, tied
yadok: last
yaka: work
yakin: worker, servant
yakina: workers (so kookendjeriyang-yakina – shepherds)
yakina boodjerang: farmer
yakina-kooranyi: priests
yakin-kooranyi: priest (‘worker holy’)
yakiny: work, working
yako: to work
yakoorl: run
yalga: but
yalgaran: open
yalkaran: free, release
yalkaranan: liberate, set free
yalman-waangk: answer, reply
yalman-waangki: reply
yalya: grave, tomb
yalyetiny: wetting
yambo: across
yambo-koorl: go across
yana: walk
yana-waangki: messenger
yando: gold, yellow
yanga: give, given
yanga-kwabba: bless (give good)
yanga-kwabba-yan: blessed
yanga-kwabbiny: blessing
yanganan: praise, greet, welcome, thank, open
yanganan moorditj: great praise
yanganan-yan: praised
yanga-narra: sacrifice, offering (‘give burning’)
yanga-narriny: give offering (‘give burning’)
yanganiny: praising, thanking
yanga-yan: given
yanginy: gift, giving
yaniny: walking
yardjan: seize
yardjang: capture, seize, arrest
yarlin: body
yarn: how
yarrang-yarrang: rub
yatar-yan: captive, tied
Yediga: Psalms, songs
Yedika: ‘Psalms’, songs
yedi-waangki: sing a song
yedi-waangkiny: singing
yekan: drive out
yekana: drive out
yenang: widow
yenanga: widows
yendan: beneath
yengalang: surround
yennar: every
yennar waral: in every way kooramba – everywhere
yeyi: now
yidja: bear, give birth, put, make
yidjak: to put
yidjan: mock, laugh at
yidja-yan: put
yidjiny: putting
yikkan: wake
yilak: quickly
yilak-yilak: immediately
yimbara: husks
yinadjat: ahead
yinang: young
yinang kookendjeri: lamb, young sheep
yindjaran: dry
yinya-yinya: forgive
yira: over, above, high
yira barrang: take up
yiraba: stand up, get up, rise
yiraba noyitjyen: rise from death
yira-barrang: lift up
yira-barrang-yan: taken up
yiraba-yan: raised
yira-bilang: lift up
Yira-Djendjeriny: Pass Over
yira-djil: very high
yira-djinang: look up
yira-kaaditj: think highly
yirakaat: top, roof
yirakal: suddenly
yira-koorl: go up
yira-koorl-yan: taken up
yiraman: stretch out
yira-miyalitj: look up
yira-ngatti: higher
yirany: rising
yira-nyiny: sit up
yirap: high place
yira-yaaka: stand up (‘appoint’)
yira-yaakiny: standing over
yira-yidja: put up
yira-yira: high
yirrbin: sprinkle, drip
yirribin: drip
yok: woman
Yok Djeyib Sheba-kang: Queen of Sheba
yoka: women
yokaman: all women
yongka: kangaroo (Jesus used the word’camel’)
yoodjil: cup, drinking shell
Yoolina: Council (chiefs, councillors)
yoolindja: chief
yoorang-yoorang: scatter, shake, sift
yoordjang: seize
yoowal-koorl: came
yoowart: not, don’t, not
yoowart kiyar: can/could not (‘not can’)
yoowart moort: nobody
yoowart noolong keny: nothing, not one thing
yoowart-kayar: can’t (‘not can’)
yowi-kwarda: faint
yowir: confused, drunk