walay-manil

/ˈwalaj-manil/

gloss “to cause to enter”

Motion · travell-conjugation

to cause to enterto put into

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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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Jana nyungunin bada wellba walay-manin

They lowered him down into the wall

Causative of 'walal' (to enter); the -manil suffix marks the transitive causative 'cause to enter, put into'.