marra

/ˈmara/

gloss “zemia tree”

Flora · tree

zemia treezemia nutwing

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Kuku-Yalanji Dictionary (1982)

The headword and meaning trace to the Kuku-Yalanji dictionary compiled by Henry and Ruth Hershberger with major Kuku Yalanji contributors.

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Major contributors include Toby Bloomfield, Roy Friday, Billy Roberts, Hector and Doris Sykes, Joe Walker, and people who lived at Jajikal in Ayton.

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Polysemous: zemia tree/nut (food source, roasted-ground-leached for flour) and 'wing'.

zemia nut

to be in a real bad temper, temper tantrum, picking up things and throwing them

food which is ground up to make flour, i.e.e marra. Rolled in junjun leaves and left in water for several weeks, then ground and roasted