ngunja-l

/ˈŋunɟa-l/

gloss “forage; take over”

Transfer · possession

to forage; to claim or take over something that is (or is thought to be) discarded or nobody's particular property

forage; take over

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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.(347), (372), (375); meaning glossed explicitly at §4.x ('claim/obtain something thought to be discarded'). Not in the source dictionary.
Verb root takes conjugation suffix -l (Patz §3.8.3).
Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.