wadalwadal

/ˈwadalwadal/

gloss “water spirit”

Spirit · mythical · being

A water spirit with a female body and a fishtail, living in a spring in the Thompson Creek valley and associated with one particular Yalanji family clan; it tolerates rightful family members, who may use its spring water believed to have healing powers.

water spirit

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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 §1.2.1.8 (grammar.md line 721); not in the source dictionary as this sense.
Lexicalised reduplication; distinct from the homophonous-looking near-headword 'wadal'.
Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.