nguju-wuri-y

/ˈŋuɟu-wuɻi-j/

gloss “fool around”

Motion · travel

fool around

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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 ex.(433): nguju-wuri-y 'funny-dance-IMP' ('Don't play/fool around with the spear...'); not in the source dictionary.
Lexicalised compound nguju 'fun, funny' + wuri-y 'dance' (a y-conjugation intransitive verb per §3.8.3), so cited as nguju-wuri-y.
Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.