kurrka-nyaji-ji

/ˈɡurɡa-ɲaɟi-ɟi/

gloss “look back”

Perception

look back

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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 Appendix Text 3, line 19 (kurrka-nyaji-ji-ny 'looked back'); not in the source dictionary.
Lexicalised reflexive compound kurrka 'back' + nyaji 'see' + reflexive/general-intransitive -ji.
Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.