muduwaju

/ˈmuduwaɟu/

gloss “dawn, daybreak”

Time · deixis

dawn, daybreak

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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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Also occurs as the temporal form muduwajuny 'at daybreak' (Patz §5.2.2, §5.5.2).
Attested in Patz §3.4 / §6.4 discussion as muduwajuny 'at daybreak' (a time word, alongside wunkuny 'next day') and in Appendix Text 36 lines 24, 33 (muduwaju-ny); not in the source dictionary.
Entered as a temporal noun: the harvested 'become dawn' verb reading is doubtful because u-final intransitive (y-conjugation) verb roots are unattested (Patz §3.8.3.1, Table 3.15).
Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.