buyun-dama-l

/ˈbujun-dama-l/

gloss “spoil”

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spoil

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A Grammar of the Kuku Yalanji Language of North Queensland

This entry was added from Elisabeth Patz’s reference grammar and was not present in the original dictionary dataset.

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Elisabeth Patz, Pacific Linguistics 527, Australian National University, 2002.

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Attested in Patz §3.8.5.2 (idiomatic verbal compounds), listed adjective+verb 'buyun-dama-l (bad-spear-l) spoil'; further attested ex.(436), and causative use 'buyun-dama-ny' ex.(72).
Idiomatic compound of buyun 'bad' + the verb root dama-l 'to spear'; inseparable, reduplicates as a whole (buyun-dama-l-dama-l, §3.8.6).
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Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.