Kuku Yalanji Dictionary — Authority Errata & Rulings

Date: 2026-07-02 UTC · Status: living Mandate: per project direction 2026-07-02, Claude is the working authority on the language for this program; dictionary.yaml may be corrected/extended. Protocol (per the dictionary's own header + donto I3): corrections are ADDITIVE — original data preserved, every change recorded in commentary, grammar-sourced additions tagged source: grammar, backup taken before any write. Applied in discrete gated passes, not ad hoc.

Ruled errors (to fix in dictionary.yaml)

Additional findings from the full lexicon-mining pass (2026-07-02, core-lexicon build)

Batch-002 rulings: ngali = 1du EXCLUSIVE / ngaliny = inclusive (Patz §3.5 explicit; dict gloss 'inclusive' is an error). diyi 'tea' (dict adapted loan) preferred over raw tea-mun-. False-absence corrections: nyurrbal (tr, 'grind, sharpen'), dubu (n, 'spirit / spirit of a dead person'), jarruka (n, scrub hen + its eggs — 2 entries), kabu (adj 'rotten'), kariku (particle 'not yet') ARE dictionary headwords. Batch-003 ruling: kamu 'mosquito' = POTENT when stinging/biting (Patz grammar.md:4190 explicit: "mosquito + set X ergative") — core-lexicon potency corrected from 'neutral'.

Spelling authority decisions: 'motorcar' = mudaka (not Patz muduka) · 'father-in-law' = ngalayin (dict; Patz ngalayan noted as variant) · maraji and mariji-y both present ('swim') — prefer maraji (dict headword) with Patz mariji-y as variant.

Curated core lexicon (generation working set): synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/core-lexicon.yaml — 716 entries, byte-verified against dictionary.yaml, all 362 usage-example priority words flagged u: 1, potency class on nouns/animals, conjugation class on verbs, the 7 neutral-inflecting kin terms flagged.

Grammar-sourced additions (to add with source: grammar)

Generation-side conventions ratified

• Surface PAST = -n (elder/DB convention); Patz -ny kept in analysis fields.
• 'cook' = wayjul (dict spelling; Patz waju-l recorded in analysis).
• 'hungry' = dakwuy (dict; Patz phonetic §2.4 dakwuy agrees).
• 'cry' = badi (y-conj; NONPAST surface badi by §2.5.2 y-deletion; PAST badin).
• 'run' = warri (y-conj; PAST warrin; 'keep running' wanarriy).
• 'tomorrow' = wunkun; 'yesterday' = yilayku; 'today/now' = nyiku.
• 'old man' = mukul dingkar (elder-attested) while wulman is quarantined.
• 'sleep' = warngku wunay; 'is sleeping' warngku wunay, 'slept' warngku wunan.
• Homograph care: yaba eel/eB (disambiguate by context), karrkay child(N)/small(ADJ) — avoid the ADJ sense next to animate heads.

Emotion / inner-life lexicon (batch-035, grepped 2026-07-03) — corrects earlier coinages

Attested forms (dictionary.yaml + grammar.md), to prefer over the wawu-X coinages used in batches 026–034:

PRODUCTIVE PATTERN (Patz §3.8.4, grammar.md:3403–3419): body-part / wawu 'breath, spirit' + verb form emotional & physical states — jiba- (liver) + V and wawu- (spirit) + V. So wawu-X / jiba-X coinages follow a REAL derivational pattern; they are not false lexemes. RULE: still prefer the attested compound where one exists (the table above); a novel wawu-/jiba- compound is acceptable only when no attested word covers the sense. E-017: jiba-badiy is a y-conjugation stem → surface jiba-badi (word-final -iy drops y; keep jiba-badi-y in analysis).

Confirmed verb roots ending -nga (2026-07-03, batch-038)

These surface like a locative but are verb roots (l-conjugation); grep-confirmed against the primary sources. Do NOT "correct" them to -ngu/-ba, and do not read them as stem+LOC:

Related break/split verbs in the dictionary: dumbarri-l 'break', dakandi-l 'break (something) down'. RECIPROCAL note (Patz §3.8.5.4): the reciprocal -wa- and reflexive -ji- intransitivise a transitive verb → the subject is ABSOLUTIVE, not ergative (jana nyaji-way 'they see each other').

⚠ CORRECTION: rhotic locative allomorphy (2026-07-03, batch-039)

An earlier working rule treated the TRILL /rr/ like the single retroflex /r/ (both → -a). Wrong. Verified against Patz's locative-allomorph table (§3.2.3.1) + attested forms:

• TRILL /rr/ → -ba/-bu (the "-bV/elsewhere" allomorph): wabarr-ba 'in the shade' [A6930], wujurr-bu 'in the dark' [A2507/5313], diburr-bu 'egg-LOC', dukurr-bu, ngulkurr-bu, junkurr-bu (-bu after a u-final stem, -ba after a/i: dimbirr-ba, kungkarr-ba).
• SINGLE retroflex /r/ → -a/-u (long vowel): bibar-a, bujur-u, wungar-a, wangkar-a, jukar-a, dungur-u. Corpus corrections applied (51 rows, revision-logged): wujurrba→wujurrbu, dukurra/dukurrba→dukurrbu, junkurra→junkurrbu, ngulkurrba→ngulkurrbu, jukarba→jukara (×27), wangkarba→wangkara, dungura→dunguru. Lexemes that only LOOK like this pattern are unaffected: jarba 'snake', darrba 'wallaby', mirrba 'woomera', karrba(-l) 'hold' (verb). Also: shade = wabarr (not *ngambur); sky = jiri; star = dawar.

Fire / cooking / food lexicon (2026-07-03, batch-041)

Confirmed-good (dict): baya fire · jimal fire-stick · dama-murnil twirl a fire-drill · jakalambal start a fire · kubu smoke · ngunjil charcoal/coals · wula flames · wumbul hot · kurrma earth-oven · waju-l cook/burn (PAST wajun) · dinda-l roast · balamu / nyamal boil · jirra burnt · jani well-cooked · nganja taste/smell · balja / mayi / minya / kuyu food / veg-food / meat / fish · damba damper · kawar honey-bread · wunba honey · wandul fat · kulbul ripe · dakwuy hungry · yajin full · wuynkurr meat-juice/broth · baka-l / munja-l / bangka-l dig/gather · nyurrba-l grind. ⚠ Corrections (words that mean something else): duna / yaru = 'wet' (NOT *bibiny; bibi = breast) · kambar = 'white clay', NOT 'evening' (evening = kunarangkal) · 'red' = mula-mula / ngala-ngala / marun-marun, 'reddish' = jurrbil (NOT *dalku [= archer fish], NOT *kubarr [= big black eel]) · jinbal = 'fast', NOT 'green/fine' (green/unseasoned wood = duna 'wet') · 'rainforest/scrub' = majaji (never the English loan 'scrub').

Coinage sweep (2026-07-03, batch-042) — verify against BOTH grammar.md AND dictionary.yaml

Phonotactic lint cannot catch a well-formed but non-existent word; only cross-grepping both primary sources does. Repaired: jinji (sew/mix/roll — unattested) → murni-l / murnil 'twist, make' · jaji 'cord/sinew' → karra 'rope' (or ngurran) · dungur 'bank' → jalkar 'high bank' · wunbul / jiwuny 'reeds' → jikan 'grass' (also bilanji, kakarr, kumul, mawu) · wunany 'sleep' → warngku (wunay = lie down/being/marry, not the noun) · 'wax' = jila / nyumbirr / yikari (beeswax), NOT wunba (= honey) · 'resin' = kanunjul (grass-tree resin) · 'vine' = kalal / kalirr / mawar / maya / wangay. Confirmed OK: naka-naka 'across', ngubar 'other side', murru 'round', jiri 'sky' (recurring guyu slip), murni-l & wukurri-l & yunga-l & jurrnga (all in grammar.md though absent from dictionary.yaml). ⚠ WATCHLIST — kunku-jina 'digging stick': used corpus-wide but attested in NEITHER primary source. RESOLVED 2026-07-03: reconciled corpus-wide (8 rows) to jaba 'stick' (attested); each change logged as a revision (I3 never-lose-data). The grammar.md 'kunku' hit was a false match inside ngaykunku (a pronoun form); dictionary has only kunkun 'periwinkle' / kunka 'might be'.

Fauna vocabulary + coinage corrections (2026-07-03, batch-043)

Confirmed-good (grep both sources): kuyu fish, kubarr eel, ngawuya turtle, balarri queenfish, barrbal black bream, bayil perch, danbal/dawal kingfish, dalkal fw-sardine, kiju mudcrab, ngalngal sand-crab, wuli-wuli soldier-crab, kurrija octopus, nuwi squid, wakal prawn, mukirr mussel, julul oyster, kunkun periwinkle; buyi/dikal bird, bakamu pigeon, birrbirr parrot, biru-biru rainbow-bird, dawa-dawa magpie, jaka friarbird, bajal bower-bird, bulbul pheasant-coucal, dabuy kingfisher, dukunjulu golden-whistler; jarba/bubal snake, bajalji python, jadi sand-goanna, bajabaja blue-tongue, binanjal frill-neck, bakay water-snake, bilngkumu crocodile; darrba/jumar/kadar wallaby, julmbanu grey-roo, jarrabina/murral tree-roo, yawa possum, kulngu bandicoot, murramu dingo, ngangkin echidna, kambi flying-fox, jibul bat; dabu bee, jabarrangkul black-ant, munjurr green-ant, diri-diri/munyurri sandfly, biray/waja march-fly, birinjil centipede, jambun grub, jimu grasshopper, walbul-walbul butterfly, wurarr-wurarr dragonfly, malal spider. Behaviour verbs: marra-warri fly, maraji/mariji-y swim, mara-warri crawl, baykal/jindal bite, jalamal jump, dalkay hatch, badi cry. ⚠ Coinage corrections: kangkur (wallaby) → darrba · jaruka (goanna) → jadi · kawul (eagle) → yalngkurr / wandi · jinkurr (I used for 'hawk') = 'younger sister' → hawk is jinabiju (also kalin-kalin) · bikarr = 'fishy' NOT shark → bububay 'black-tip shark' · jinkun (spider) → malal · bugil (flower) → nganka · jiran (spine/sharp) → jalngkun 'sharp' · ngunju → ngandal 'mouth' / manu 'throat' · 'lips' = yimbi. No bare word for 'egg' (use dalkay 'hatch'; jamal = egg-white, yijirr = eggshell).

Comitative/privative + abstract-noun coinages (2026-07-03, batch-044)

Comitative allomorphs (table 3.3): vowel→-ji (juku-ji, kaka-ji, maja-ji), l/n→-ji (milbal-ji, jalun-ji, ngalkal-ji), rhotic→-iji (jukar-iji, bulbur-iji, walarr-iji); alt -nji (yala-nji). Privative -kari uniform. Confirmed: dandi 'hard' (grammar.md + dict), milbal 'tear', wawu 'wish', jinil 'barb of spear', dukul-wuri/jakay-jakay/kana-baykal 'angry', majarr/daki-daki 'lazy', yararri 'shiver', nganja 'scent/taste'. ⚠ Corrections: ngamba = 'not seeing' NOT anger → dukul-wuri · jamba = 'hillside' NOT fence · juju = 'bum' NOT nose → use nganja 'scent' · jalan = 'sea urchin' NOT barb → jinil · 'milk' → bibi 'breast' (not bina) · 'leaf' = birra / bindi (not bina). ⚠ COINAGE WATCHLIST (used corpus-wide, NO clean mechanical swap — needs a dedicated re-authoring pass): bikirr 'shame' (attested is the idiom murru-kaday 'be ashamed', which won't nominalise for -ji/-kari or the derivations bikirr-daji 'contempt', bikirr-manil 'to correct') · bina 'leaf' (→ birra) · kambi 'bark/cloth' (dict: 'flying fox').

Flora vocabulary + coinage corrections (2026-07-03, batch-045)

Confirmed flora (both sources): juku tree · birra leaf (bindi broad leaf) · warrur/dumbul bark · buyku paperbark · bangkan/ngara root · diburr seed · nganka flower · kalal vine · dukal/binanji fig · dulmbil palm · jajikal screw-palm · nganjirr grass-tree · dimbirr hollow-trunk · dingal tree-base · dakil branch · jurrbu shoot · kanunjul resin · yikari hardened gum. Trees: babajaka bloodwood · baway black-bean · dalban oak · bilar candlenut · dakumbar/jinajina water-gum · bijin tea-tree · duwar black-palm · burrin-burrin breadfruit · marbaji/wulngkurr stringy-bark. Craft: wangal boomerang · kunjuri shield · durray fighting-stick · mirru/nala-nala club · jaba stick · kambar white-clay · makirr/makarra yellow-ochre · murbuy/wuba red-ochre. ⚠ Corrections: wural (bend) → badamal / maku-walimal · bigan (shield) → kunjuri · jiwuny (reed) → jikan 'grass' (no clean reed word) · jarrmba (yellow) → makirr · wanka (white) → kambar · jamba = 'hillside' NOT wall · no attested 'fungus/mushroom' word (reword). ✅ Confirmation: ngalkal = 'open woodland' (Patz's own comitative example ngalkal-ji 'with open woodland'), even though dictionary.yaml glosses it 'outside' — grammar.md is authoritative. 🔁 Watchlist: bina 'leaf' → RESOLVED 2026-07-03 (20 rows token-targeted to birra, all binal 'know' preserved; one milk-sense bina-ji → bibi-ji 'nursing'). Still deferred (need re-authoring, no clean swap): bikirr 'shame' (idiom murru-kaday), kambi 'bark/cloth' (bark = dumbul/warrur, paperbark = buyku).

Kinship lexicon (2026-07-03, batch-047)

Full grep-verified kin set (dictionary.yaml + grammar.md §3.2.4): ngamu/mama mother · nganjan father · yaba/yabaju elder/younger brother · babarr/jinkurr elder/younger sister · kami grandfather (FF; kami-ngka also FF/MM) · babi grandmother · ngaji mother's father · juway great-grandfather · jija/kaminjarr grandchild · kalnga mother's brother (uncle) · mukul/ bimay/bimakay father's sister (aunt; mukul also 'old woman') · mukay mother's older sister · dunyu husband · biwar/kuban/manyarr wife · ngaybirr spouse · biwul mother-in-law · ngalayin father-in-law · banji brother-in-law · warrin sister-in-law · bangunji cousin · kambanmu cross-cousin · kangkal/karrkay/bayin child · kukujida child-just-learned-to-talk · yuyku bereaved father · manda/ngujurr niece · nguru husband's younger brother · kujiway daughter-in-law. ⚠ No native word for 'moiety' — use the circumlocution bama-jambul 'the two-fold people'. ✅ Name-substitute for the deceased = ngalba (grammar.md l.699).

Batch-048 close (2026-07-06) — the phantom purge + y-final LOC reconciliation

y-final LOC reconciliation COMPLETE. Patz Table 3.1: y-final stems take neutral LOC -mbV (buray-mba, wakuy-mbu), human y-final nouns potent -anda (karrkay-anda). 46 rows reconciled corpus-wide + 3 stragglers whose SOLID elder surface (karrkaynga) the hyphen-keyed fixer had missed (→ karrkayanda, jarraymba, kalbaymba). Malformed ABL+LOC stacks (-munynga) dropped the stray -nga. lint_corpus.py enforces the rule.

Attested vocabulary confirmed this close (all grep-verified, now safe to use): ngumbu black · kambar white-clay/pale · makirr yellow-ochre/gold · muduwaju dawn (+ muduwajuny 'at dawn') · wumbul hot/warm · wunbu & janga quiet · juran alive · jukar sand · jakal full · kala-burra weak · jakay-dandi stingy/mean · kuniway fight(n) · ngandal mouth · malkarri corroboree/ceremony · bangkarr body/flesh · bajibay bone · mara-daji-l help ('hand-give') · milkabu baykal think-about · milkabu nyajil hear · milka-janay listen · milka-binalku remember · yira tide · ngurrbal fog · ngurrban cloud · daburri swamp/lagoon · dubar level-ground · kubu-kubu tadpole · yuday frog · ngirran beetle · jambun grub · murrba close-fitting · yurri-l scrape · yaka-l cut · yilba-l throw · ngarrbal stranger · jawun friend/relation · ngakiji-y hide · kanban by-mistake · buyun-dama-l spoil · kunja-l call/summon · baja-burray tired · dindal roast · nanda-(ji-)l shut · dumbarri-l break · wawu-mini happy · jaway generous · yabarrka all-the-time · ngundu close-by · diburr seed · dimbirr hollow(-trunk) · jarra 'more' · yajarr laugh · jarramali thunder(storm) · wandi-l get-up · kaja-l tie · jani well-cooked/done (the only legal jani; 'raw' = jani-kari).

⚠ PHANTOM WATCHLIST — unattested tokens still in ACCEPTED batches (≤048), pending their own reconciliation sweeps (token → remaining rows → planned replacement): | phantom | rows | replacement path | |---|---|---| | janyji (kin/tie/bind/habit…) | 93 | sense-map per row: kaja-l tie · jawun(-karra) kin · murni practice | | burri (game?/…) | 51 | audit senses; minya 'game/meat' where animal | | kunya 'night' | 35 | wujurr (+ case) | | jubi 'quiet/gentle/safe…' | 35 | wunbu / janga / kima per sense | | jinbi 'tender/friend/peace' | 28 | kima · jawun · wunbu | | kalbal 'healer/medicine' | 23 | yukil-bunga-l-bama · mara(-kari) | | milkan 'thought/remembered' | 19 | milkabu baykal · milka-binalku | | jani (habit/self/way senses) | 12 | yala · murni · dukurr (jani itself stays 'cooked') | | kulur-jambul 'countless' | 10 | wubul (kulur = 'a few/three') | | yilbay 'beauty/endless' | 9 | jirakal · bada-kari | | janka-yukil 'skill' | 9 | binal | | jarrakay 'talk/babble' | 8 | balka-l(-bama) | | bubu-jandu 'plain/ground' | 7 | dubar · bubu | | yumbul | 7 ✅0 CLEARED (2026-07-06) | Phantom (absent dict+grammar), DRIFTING sense across 7 dense b046-047 wisdom-narratives; mapped by each row's English to attested words: kuku-yumbul→kuku-kuda 'riddle=word-question' (b046.14), yumbul→kuda 'question' (b046.20/b047.30 bama-nka kuda), janka-yumbul/dingkar-yumbul/kari yumbul→ngangkal 'ignorant/foolish' (b046.28/043/b047.46), kuku-bama-yumbul→bama kuku-kari 'questionless people' (b046.47). kuda question (dict L14742), ngangkal ignorant (L22299). Promoted to DENY_ALWAYS (yulmbarril is unrelated; no legit word contains 'yumbul'). | | daga (garbage multi-sense) | 5 ✅0 CLEARED | mouth→ngandal, tooth→dirra, end→jungku, shut→nanda-l, chew→maja-nka; promoted to DENY_ALWAYS | | wanka | 4 ✅0 CLEARED (2026-07-06) | Not a phantom lexeme — a MIS-SEGMENTATION of the RECIP-PURP suffix train -wa-nka (cf. accepted balka-wa-nka, grammar l.2003 "talk-RECIP-PURP"): daji-wanka→daji-wa-nka (give-RECIP-PURP, b035.19/035.43), nyaji-wanka→nyaji-wa-nka (see-RECIP-PURP, b041.46). The 4th (b042.8) was a real 'dry' phantom: wanka-ma-→marral-ma- ('dry', dict L18496/grammar l.845) + mis-used janka(quiet)→jukar(sand). Promoted to DENY_ALWAYS (boundary-safe: bawanka=bawa-nka 'leave', ngawanka=ngawa-nka 'baby', -wa-nka all excluded). NB the earlier "wanka(white)→" note (line ~244) is a SEPARATE stale idea — no 'white=wanka' rows exist; white clay = kambar. | | jarrmba · jinji · kunkul · bubu-warral · jani-warra · kuku-yumbul | 1–2 each | ✅ jarrmba→makirr (b046.34), jinji→murni-l (b041.21), kuku-yumbul→kuku-kuda (with yumbul sweep) DONE; rest see lint DENY lists | Also on watch (used widely, transparent-but-unattested; decide at a dedicated review): mabi '-prone/full-of' (74) · wawu-jirray 'joy' (jirray='lots' IS attested — likely fine) · kuku-jangkar 'story/law' (jangkar attested only as a Daintree placename) · wungar-kadal 'generation' · jarray 'row/space' (24) · jina as 'shape/state' · jiba-wulay 'sweet' · wula-mabi 'dead/mortal'. lint_corpus.py DENY_NEW bars all phantoms from batches ≥049.

Batch-049 (2026-07-06) — body-domain vocabulary confirmed + bibar rehabilitated

bibar REHABILITATED: attested 'shin' (dict 2131); removed from the lint denylist. Only the batch-048 'tide' sense was phantom (tide = yira). Standing rule: denylist the SENSE, not an attested token. Newly grep-confirmed attested (see cheatsheet rule 36 for the full body table): all 40+ body terms; idiom compounds miyil-burra/-dudu/-kaban-ji/-wujurr-wujurr, milka-dudu/-bujar/-marri/-dandi, walu-dandi, mara-jalajala, manu-buray; verbs julurril (IMP julurri-ka), maraji 'swim', jila-warri-y 'sweat', ngirray-warri-y 'burst into tears', muru-kaday 'ashamed', kunjal 'call/name', wulngku 'song', warrbi/waymbil 'axe', bijarr 'dream', jakal 'full', bala 'skinny', ngawuya 'turtle', mili 'stinging tree', kulbanmuku 'axe'; pronouns yubal 2du / yurra 2pl / ngayku 1sg-POSS (grammar 2581, 2684, 4524). ⚠ wubul 'heart' homophone of wubul 'many' — avoided by policy (use wawu).

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06): ✅ kunya RESOLVED — 37 accepted rows reconciled to wujurr (stem swap + trill-rr case adjustment: LOC → wujurr-ba, POSS → wujurr-umu, compounds wujurr-jina, buyi-wujurr); revisions logged, statuses → revised, kunya promoted to the lint's DENY_ALWAYS. Remaining big items: janyji (93) · burri (51) · jubi (35) · jinbi (28) · kalbal (23) · milkan (19).

Batch-050 (2026-07-06) — modal-batch vocabulary confirmed

Newly grep-confirmed attested: kabu rotten (159) · jila smell (grammar 7088) · badur fishing line (158) · kararr blanket (153) · kanga-l chase (149) · yijarri-l put (IMP yijarri-ka, 153) · wundi-l take/carry (2750) · bangka-l catch/gather-many (162) · kunba-y-mani-l finish (165) · daray fall (only in CAUS daray-mana 'drop', 157 — do not freely inflect the bare root) · jujubala ironwood (164) · baway black bean tree (1929) · yirrka-y shout/cry out (152) · RECIP -wa-y (kunja-wa-y call each other, grammar 3493; corpus balka-wa-y argue, warri-wa-y race) · kulngu bandicoot · murraja stonefish (6507) · jina-baji 'Sore-Foot' nickname (647) · ngawuya turtle · bilngkumu crocodile (potent). jarruka 'scrub-hen' now used in its true sense. Composition checklist note: the ONLY recurring slip class in 049/050 is single-retroflex-r LOC (jalkar-a, jukar-a, wungar-a) and u-final LOC (bubu-ngu) — scan for -rba/-unga endings before banking.

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06, second sweep): ✅ milkan RESOLVED — 21 accepted rows reconciled sense-by-sense (think → milkabu bayka-l, perceive → milkabu nyaji-l, hear → milka-jana-ny, remember → milka-binalku / milka-nga karrba-l, 'without minding' → milka-kari / milka-mundu); revisions logged, milkan promoted to DENY_ALWAYS. Flagged in passing for later audit: wunkuwingku (1905), dukul-wuri, jiba-badi, warmbi-ny (1960), kunji-nyaku (2070), kilba-kari (2083), jubay-mani (2405), wandi-ma-nka (2430) — unvetted tokens sighted during the sweep. Remaining big items: janyji (93) · burri (51) · jubi (35) · jinbi (28) · kalbal (23) · kulur-jambul (10).

🔴 MAJOR SENSE ERROR discovered 2026-07-06: kija ≠ 'cold' (kija = MOON/month)

kija is attested only as 'moon, month' (grammar 2509, creation-being 719) and 'place'. The corpus has used kija = 'cold' in 108 tokens across 81 rows (23 batches) — including kija-ma-l 'grow cold', kija-bunga-l 'cool (tr)', kija-wungar 'winter'. The earlier project-memory claim that kija-ma-ny 'grew cold' was Patz-attested is FALSE (zero grammar hits) — a memory trusted instead of grepped. Attested cold vocabulary: kiway 'cold' (n; [A 443] Baya waju-l-waju, kiway kada-nyji! 'Keep the fire burning lest the cold come!') · kiway-kiway 'cold' (adj) · ngiki = 'cough/head-cold' (illness only, 545/556) · bulur 'early-morning chill/dew' · bulur-iji 'COLD SEASON' (540/2510) · wangariji 'the hot season'. Reconciliation planned (next interleave): kija(cold) → kiway/kiway-kiway per context; INCHO kija-ma-l → kiway-ma-l; CAUS → kiway-bunga-l; kija-wungar → bulur-iji. kija then returns to service as 'moon' ONLY (also fixes 2351's phantom kambi-as-moon → kija). kija added to lint DENY_NEW pending the sweep. Weather truth-table also confirmed: kaba rain · wabarr shade (049.31's "no shade word" claim was WRONG) · marral dry (adj) · yaru wet (adj) · balar high tide · ngajal low tide · mulngku wave · wadjal cyclone · jalungkarr flood · yiril rainbow · jabulbina thunder · kurrubijal morning star · mulawajarr star · wungar dakal sunrise ('sun climbs' — dakal 'climb' confirmed) · wungar daray sunset.

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06, third sweep): ✅ kija-as-cold RESOLVED — 56 rows in batches 39–48 reconciled to kiway (nominal) / kiway-kiway (attributive) / bulur-iji (cold season) / kiway-ma-l (INCHO) / kiway-bunga-l (CAUS); N-kija compounds → N-kiway; two bonus sense repairs found in passing (2101 'dry sticks' → marral, 2173 'wet net' → yaru). Batches 2–30's 22 kija tokens verified as LEGITIMATE 'moon' uses and kept. lint_corpus.py now carries a kija SENSE-GUARD (flags any kija whose gloss lacks moon/month) instead of a token denial — its first run caught a batch-023 surface typo (kijaka → kijuka 'mudcrab-DAT'). kija is back in service as 'moon' for new batches. Unvetted tokens sighted: kajul 'mangrove'?, marrakan 'canoe'?, walal 'enter'?, kirraji (2281), wandul (2127), nganja (2126) — audit queued.

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06, fifth sweep): ✅ jinbi RESOLVED — 29 rows: bare/INCHO/CAUS → kima family; jawun-jinbi 'friend' → bare jawun (8541); janyji-jinbi → janyji-kima (interim, pending the janyji sweep); promoted to DENY_ALWAYS; kima + jinbi(phantom-retired) entered in the lexemes table. Remaining: janyji (93) · burri (51) · jubi (~33) · kalbal (23).

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06, sixth item): ✅ kalbal VINDICATED — sweep cancelled. kalbal = 'remedy, treatment' (dict 12328: the green-ant-larvae mixture for chest sickness/colds; grammar §1.2.1.6 confirms the green-ant remedy tradition). The corpus's 23 'medicine' rows are a legitimate modest extension; kalbal-bama 'healer' is a transparent compound. Bonus find: dukunjaka 'bush medicine' (6396). The 048-close replacements (yukil-bunga-l-bama, mara-kari) stand as valid synonyms. ⚠ Do not confuse kalbal with kalbali 'tall'. Remaining watchlist: janyji (93) · burri (51) · jubi (~33).

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06, seventh sweep): ✅ jubi RESOLVED — split verdict. jubi-l 'squeeze, pinch' (10141, [A 3525] + REFL jubi-ji-y) is attested and all verb uses KEPT (557, 051.19/37). The nominal/adjectival 'hold/tight/binding' sense (the batch-41–47 social-glue metaphor, 36 rows) was phantom: INCHO → dandi-ma-, CAUS → dandi-bunga- 'bind/make fast', adverbial jubi-bu → dandi-bu 'firmly', compounds (bubu-jubi, wawu-jubi, jubi-yamba) → -karra string-metaphor, bare adj → dandi. jubi stays in DENY_NEW (blocks bare re-entry; verb forms pass). Remaining watchlist: janyji (93+) · burri (51) — the last two, both large.

Watchlist progress (2026-07-06, eighth sweep): ✅ burri RESOLVED — vindication with a verb carve-out. burri 'name, corroboree song' is attested ([A 2095] mala-burri 'song expert'; [A 3421] burri-duda-l 'beat time'; dict 4073) — all ~80 NOUN uses stand. burrir 'island' ([A 1701], LOC burrir-a) is a separate attested lexeme (trill/retroflex minimal pair with burri!). burrin-burrin 'breadfruit' (4107) also attested. Only the invented VERB conjugation burri-l/-ny 'to name' was phantom → kunja-l 'call, name' (3493), 14 rows; COMIT burri-nji → burri-ji (neutral). burri removed from DENY_NEW. Remaining watchlist: janyji (93) — the last.

🏁 WATCHLIST CLEARED (2026-07-06, ninth sweep)

✅ janyji RESOLVED — the largest phantom in program history (245 tokens / 143 rows, batches 41–47's 'social bond' root; ZERO source hits). Two-pass sweep (147 + 16 rows — the hyphenated elder-surface CAUS forms janyji-manil/-manin/-manda fell between the solid and AN rule sets and were caught by the mandatory re-sweep): nominal → karra 'string' (the corpus's attested bond metaphor), verb → kaja-l 'tie', CAUS → kaja-, INCHO → karra-ma-, janyji-jawun → jawun-karra 'family', janyji-minya → minya-daji 'meat-share'. Sole survivor token = kunja-nyji (PRECAUT of kunja-l, legitimate). Promoted to DENY_ALWAYS.

With this, every item on the original batch-048 reconciliation watchlist is resolved: kunya ✅ · milkan ✅ · kulur-jambul ✅ · jinbi ✅ · kalbal ✅(vindicated) · jubi ✅(split) · burri ✅(vindicated+carve-out) · janyji ✅ · kija-as-cold ✅. Accepted-batch phantom debt = ZERO. The two-tier denylist + grep-at-authoring + pre-bank scan now guard the empty state.

Flora domain — confirmed-attested lexicon (2026-07-06, batch-061)

The trees-&-plants harvest banked 60+ dictionary-attested flora terms (all grepped in dictionary.yaml at authoring time; ~42 upserted into the lexemes table). Confirmed attested: juku tree/wood · buyku paperbark · dalban oak · bajar Moreton Bay ash / white gum tree (English ash is the tree name, not residue ash) · bikarrakul ti tree · babajaka bloodwood · warka messmate · marrakan red-cedar tree and dugout canoe (polysemy) · walmba log · bilar candlenut · yalngkal wattle · duwar black palm · dulmbil / kunjarri / yawarr palm · kaku lawyer-cane (edible top) · mawar / kalal / maya / wangay vine · malari fern · malurri tree (used for fern-tree) · nganjirr grass tree · jumbay-jumbay mushroom · nambarr bamboo · jarrangkal fig tree; binanji / dukal / wulku fig fruit · kajul mangrove; kakan / kurubarr / mangkurru mangrove sp. · dumbul / julkun / ngangkurr bark · birra leaf · dakil branch (redup dakil-dakil) · nganka flower · diburr seed · bangkan / ngara root · jurrbu shoots of plants · banabul pineapple · baway black bean.

Load-bearing CORRECTIONS (grep-verified):

• buyku = 'paperbark' (dict 4303) — NOT 'wing' (an earlier authoring assumption).
• dubal UPDATED ruling (Batch-133): the old "NOT bark" warning was too strong. The dictionary has a dubal coolamon/wooden-dish/bed sense, but Patz grammar/text evidence also supports dubal as bark in the ground-oven passage (dubal nyanda-nya, dubal-ba). Treat this as homonymy or source-variant tension: keep dubal source-labelled by context, and use dumbul / julkun / ngangkurr when the intended bark sense is not tied to the Patz text-51 bark passage. Existing coolamon/vessel rows are still correct; new bark rows must cite their Patz evidence.
• 'big' = yalbay (dict adj 'big'). The corpus token jangkar (80×) has NO clean headword — jangkarra = 'upriver Daintree' (a place-name), kubarr = 'big black freshwater eelfish', baral = 'feel' (verb). Do not use bare jangkar for 'big'.
• bajar is a tree-name entry: 'white gum' (445) and 'Moreton Bay ash' (423). Do not use it for ash residue. marrakan is both 'red cedar tree' (18473) and 'dugout canoe' (18483). jajikal = 'place' (not 'palm').

Attestation GAPS (no clean lexeme — use the workaround):

• 'green' (colour): none. bakamu = pigeon, munjurr / nyirran = green ant, karrkurr = green frog. Express unripe as kari kulbul ('not ripe').
• 'grow' (verb): none simple. dunjal = 'growth on the sole of the foot', binyu = 'shooting star', jurrbu = 'shoots'. Express growth via jana-y 'stand' or the noun jurrbu.
• 'sit' (verb): nyina-l is NOT in the dictionary (0 corpus uses; a candidate is bawaji). Use an existential LOC (no copula) or wuna-y 'lie (down)' (grammar 3642).

LOC allomorphy (r.21d) reaffirmed on flora — u-final VOWEL → -ngu (juku-ngu, bubu-ngu, kaku-…), NOT -nga (5 bubunga slips → bubungu this batch); l/n-final harmonise on the last vowel (dubal-ba, kajul-bu, dumbul-bu, julkun-bu, kunjin-ba); single retroflex r → -a (duwar-a, mawar-a, bajar-a, bilar-a); trill rr → -ba/-bu (yawarr-ba, nambarr-ba, diburr-bu); y-final → -mba (baway-mba, wangay-mba).

⚠ NEW PHANTOM-WATCHLIST ITEM (2026-07-06, batch-061)

• kalka-l 'rest / wait' — ✅ SWEPT & CLEARED (2026-07-06, batch-061 interleave). kalka-l 'rest' is NOT a dictionary headword; grammar.md has kalka = 'spear' only (+ kalka-ma-l 'turn into a spear', kalkandi-l 'wedge in'). 17 rows reconciled (I3 revisions): rest → mara-kunbay (dict 18155; PAST mara-kunban, PURP mara-kunbanka, SUB mara-kunbanya — model bunday); wait/watch → bundan (bunda-y 'sit/stay', the idiomatic 'wait'); rows 2290 & 2363 restructured (nominal 'rest' → verb clauses). The noun kalka 'spear' (~13 rows: kalka-ji/-bu/-nka/-bama/-kari/-murni/-warri, kalka-manda=kalka-ma-nda) was preserved untouched. Lint: kalkal removed from SOLID_REDUP, kalkal+kalkanya added to DENY_ALWAYS (they cannot match the spear forms — no kalkal substring). lexemes: kalka-l → phantom-retired; mara-kunbay/kalka/bawaji added attested. Full corpus lint GREEN after. Scoping record (as executed):
  • Of the 25 distinct kalka token-forms, the noun kalka 'spear' is ATTESTED and must be KEPT (~13 rows): kalka-ji / kalka-jirr-ka (COMIT), kalka-bu / kalkabu (INST), kalka-nka / kalkaka (DAT/PURP 'for a spear'), kalka-juku (spear-wood), kalka-murru, kalka-bama (spearman), kalka-kari (spear-PRIV), kalka-murni (spear-making), kalka-warri (spear-throw), kalka-yamba, kalka-jimuny, kalkamuny (ABL), and kalka-manda = kalka-ma-nda 'turned into spears' (attested INCHO of kalka-ma-l, grammar 3448). Untouched rows incl. 1286, 2086, 2153, 2179(kalkabu), 2193, 2250, 2315, 2464, 2540, 2573, 2761, 3071.
  • PHANTOM = the VERB kalka-l 'rest/wait' — ~19 rows (2016, 2023, 2032, 2040, 2045, 2097, 2131, 2149, 2160, 2176, 2189, 2290, 2363, 2650 + check 2179/2194/2292): forms kalkal (NONPAST/ nominal 'rest'), kalkan (PAST 'rested/waited'), kalkalka / kalkanka (PURP), kalkanya (SUB), kalkanmu, kalkal-ji / kalkal-kari (row 2290 'rested vs restless body').
  • Replacement = mara-kunbay 'rest, stop working' (dict 18155, intr y-conj compound). ⚠ BEFORE executing, VERIFY its y-conjugation in grammar (only kunba-y-mani-ny is directly attested): PAST mara-kunban (safe), NONPAST mara-kunbay (safe); PURP (-nka vs -lka) + SUB (-nya) need confirming; row 2290's NOMINAL 'rest' needs RESTRUCTURING to SUB clauses ('the body that rests / that does not rest') — not a mechanical swap. Wait-sense hunting rows (2149/2160/2176/2189) → bawaji 'stay/ remain' (dict 1889) or mara-kunbay. Run it as its OWN careful two-pass sweep (like janyji), revisions I3-safe, final full-lint gate.

batch-062 (CONSTRUCTION) — two cheatsheet errors caught by grep-at-authoring (2026-07-06)

Building the subordinate/purpose-clause batch, grep-at-authoring caught TWO errors in our OWN living books (the cheatsheet is not exempt from phantom discipline):

1. ngara-l = 'build / set up (camp) / spread' — NOT 'listen'. Cheatsheet rule 28's IRR example ngara-nyaku 'should have listened' was WRONG. Grammar: bayan ngara-ny 'set up camp' (234), kararr ngara-l 'spread a sheet' (416), bayan ngara-nyjiku 'before setting up camp' (449). There is no simple 'hear/listen' verb — use milka-bu nyaji-l (ear-INST see) or milka-janay. Rule 28 fixed (IRR example → wukurri-nyaku 'should have followed'). 2 accepted rows swept (2051, 2076): ngara-nyaku → wukurri-nyaku 'should have followed/heeded'. (⚠ Note ngara-nyaku 'should have BUILT' is legit — the phantom was the listen sense, so it's a semantic watch, not lint-deniable.)

2. 'sand' = jukar (dict 10254) — NOT janyul. Cheatsheet rule 27 listed janyul 'sand'; janyul is absent from both dict and grammar. Rule 27 fixed. 12 accepted rows swept (2015, 2021, 2024, 2115, 2150, 2159, 2177, 2184, 2200, 2210, 2232, 2305): janyul → jukar; LOC janyul-ba → jukar-a (single retroflex r, r.21d lists jukar-a). janyul added to lint DENY_ALWAYS; lexemes: janyul → phantom-retired, jukar 'sand' added attested.

Other batch-062 lexeme corrections (grep-verified): dukul = 'head' (NOT 'sick'; sick = bambay) · nganga = 'only/just' (NOT 'now' — no clean 'now/today' word) · murnil = 'twist' (NOT 'make') · janji-l = 'wash/bathe' (NOT 'swim' — mariji/mariy unattested; no clean 'swim' verb) · buban = 'small' (NOT 'boy') · kuwa = 'NW' · bawal = 'leave/quit' · kaki = 'if/when' (real conditional). Morphology: COMITATIVE after vowel/l/n = -ji (r.31), NOT -nji (the -nji alternant is only on some vowel stems, e.g. yala-nji) — fixed yaba-ji, mukul-ji. Accepted-batch phantom debt = ZERO.

batch-063 (LEXICAL: FAUNA) — animal lexicon + ERG-harmony sweep (2026-07-06)

FAUNA domain — confirmed-attested lexicon (all grep-verified in dictionary.yaml):

• Mammals: kaya dog · murramu dingo · kadar/jumar/darrba wallaby · mayarriji/nyarrkali kangaroo · yawa possum · ngumbi bandicoot · kukur rat · ngangkin echidna · kambi flying fox (also 'clothes') · mali bat
• Birds: dikal bird(generic) · kurranji cassowary · diwan scrub turkey · wabul pigeon · bakamu green pigeon · birrbirr lorikeet · kadanji/kumurbina black cockatoo · kuyir curlew · kalkuy night owl · kururrungka kookaburra · yalngkurr eagle hawk · kalin-kalin kestrel · wandi fish hawk · burrkul spirit bird
• Fish/sea: kuyu/wuyumbu fish · kubarr eel · julaji/kanyaji catfish · kalu saltwater catfish · ngalkun mullet · kalngkan small mullet · kubija barracuda · yawu stingray · ngawiya sea turtle · ngujay freshwater turtle · wakal prawn · ngalngal sand crab · mukirr mussel · nikar/marku/juwarru oyster · kaduy snail · nyumbil leech
• Reptiles/amphibians: jarba snake · bubal tree snake · bajuy lizard/goanna · yuday frog
• Insects/other: kamu mosquito (POTENT when biting) · waja march fly · dabu bee · jimu grasshopper · jambun/kurran grub · malal spider · nganjamu worm · wunba honey
• Anatomy: biji tail · nangki wing · bujur feather · diburr egg (grammar 1716) · jina foot/track · minya meat/game

Corrections banked: makarr = 'fish net' · nyurrbal = 'grind/sharpen' (NOT 'drag' — reaffirms errata #43; Kuku has no clean 'drag' verb, use wundi-l 'bring') · jalambal/jalamba = NOT headwords (Kuku has no simple 'jump' verb → wangkar-a dunga-y 'go up') · wula = 'flames' (noun) vs wulay = 'die' (y-conj verb, PAST wula-ny) · balbi-l = 'hunt' (balbi-bama 'hunter') · maraji = 'swim' (the clean swim verb; complements janji-l 'wash/bathe') · juran = 'alive' · dukul = 'head' (reaffirm). Lint: birrbirr (lorikeet), ngalngal (sand crab) added to SOLID_REDUP — lexicalized solid animal names, not productive reduplication.

⚠ ERGATIVE vowel-harmony sweep (49 rows reconciled corpus-wide). Authoring had drifted to -angku/-ngku on stems whose last root vowel is a or i, where Patz and the corpus majority use -a harmony: dingkar-angka (Patz 1617/2146/3164/3760/4206; corpus 588 vs 21 error), babi-ngka (Patz 4397/5217/5249/6046/6433; corpus 92 vs 11), kaya-ngka (188 vs 1), jarba-ngka. Compare maral-angka, ngangkin-angka, walkarr-angka (Patz, all -angka). -u only after a u-final stem (mukul-ungku 556, murramu-ngku, ngamu-ngku, jalbu-ngku). The mega-cheatsheet (line 141) already listed the correct dingkar-angka / babi-ngka — this was authoring drift, not a rule gap. Sweep handled lowercase (34) + capitalized sentence-initial (15) forms; 0 error forms remain. Process note: Python .replace() is case-sensitive but SQLite LIKE is not — sweeps must cover capitalized forms and verify leftovers with a case-sensitive regex. Accepted-batch ERG debt = ZERO.

batch-064 (CONSTRUCTION: verb derivation & valency) — THIRD cheatsheet error (2026-07-06)

Building the INCHOATIVE/CAUSATIVE/REFLEXIVE/RECIPROCAL batch, the lint's kija-guard caught a THIRD error in our own mega-cheatsheet (after ngara and janyul):

kija = 'moon, month' ONLY — NOT 'cold'. Cheatsheet rule 34 listed kija-ma-ny 'water grew cold' / kija-bunga-ny 'she cooled it' as attested pairs. WRONG: grammar 2509 glosses kija 'moon, month', 719 has kija as the moon creation-being, 4453 kija jambul-muny 'after two months'. Cold = kiway (dict noun A443); kiway-ma-l 'become cold', kiway-bunga-l 'cool (tr)'. Rule 34 self-contradicted rule 38, which already carried the correct kija = moon ruling + the lint guard. Rule 34 corrected (examples → wumbul-ma-ny 'grew hot' / wumbul-bunga-ny 'heated it', kakawarri-ma-l/-bunga-l). The lint caught the misuse in 4 draft rows → kija → kiway. 0 cold-debt corpus-wide (all 23 accepted kija rows are legitimate moon/month uses — the guard has protected the corpus all along).

Pattern (three cheatsheet errors now — ngara, janyul, kija): our OWN living-book examples are not exempt from phantom discipline; grep every example, and a targeted lint guard beats a stale rule.

Derivation/valency lexemes banked (grep-verified): kiway 'cold' · kija 'moon/month' · kakawarri 'well/heal' · ngulkurr 'good' · kima 'soft' · yinil 'fear' (yinil-kanga-l 'frighten') · bilngkumu 'crocodile' · yaburr 'shark' · manyarr 'wife' (manyarr-bunga-l 'marry') · yarkin 'corpse' (yarkin-bunga-l 'kill') · naybu 'knife' · yangka 'green ant' · ngiki 'cough' · jawun 'friend' · mula 'blood/kin' · julurril 'wash' · nyurrbal 'grind' (NOT drag) · murrngal 'break off' / jurrngal 'push down' (both non-locative -nga verb roots, r.26). ⚠ yukil = 'swear' (dict), NOT 'heal' (rule 34 had implied heal — use kakawarri); warmba is not a dict headword. Key rule reaffirmed: RECIPROCAL/REFLEXIVE subject is ABSOLUTIVE, not ergative (yaba jambul kuni-wa-ny). Accepted-batch debt = ZERO.

batch-065 (LEXICAL: KINSHIP) — kin lexicon, homonyms & watchlist reconciliation (2026-07-06)

KINSHIP lexicon — confirmed-attested (Patz §3.2.4 + rule 33): ngamu mother · nganjan father · yaba/yabaju elder/younger brother · babarr/jinkurr elder/younger sister · kami grandfather(FF) · ngaji MF · babi grandmother · juway great-grandfather · jija/kaminjarr grandchild · kangkal own child · kalnga MB/uncle · mukay MZ · mukul FZ/aunt (also 'old woman') · dunyu husband · biwar/kuban/manyarr wife · biwul mother-in-law · ngalayin FIL/SIL · banji BIL · bangunji cousin · kambanmu cross-cousin · jawun relative/friend · mula blood/kin · ngalba deceased-name substitute · dubu spirit · yirmbal taboo/sacred.

⚠ KIN HOMONYMS (trust Patz for the kin sense): babarr = 'elder sister' (grammar 2259, 4388; Patz's dedication "my babarr Mabel Webb") — the dict gloss 'young cassowary' is a homonym. biwul = 'mother-in-law' (grammar 2261) — the dict gloss 'black snake' is a homonym. (mukul is genuinely polysemous: 'old woman' AND 'father's sister/aunt'.)

Case morphology (r.33), applied at scale: POTENT kin take ERG -ngkV/-VngkV vowel-harmonised (ngamu-ngku, dunyu-ngku u-final; nganjan-angka, biwar-angka, kalnga-ngka, babi-ngka a/i-harmony), LOC -ndV/-VndV (yaba-nda — Patz 2279 explicitly rules out *yaba-nga; kalnga-nda), DAT -nkV (bama-nka, bubu-nku u-harmony, babi-nka). The SEVEN neutral-inflecting kin (kangkal, manyarr, babarr, jinkurr, biwul, ngalayan, kujiway) take neutral case (kangkal-ka). POSS -mu after a vowel (ngamu-mu, kami-mu, bubu-mu, dunyu-mu) / -amu after a consonant (nganjan-amu, babarr-amu, wungar-amu). PLURAL -karra (yaba-karra, jija-karra), DYAD -manda (ngamu-manda, nganjan-manda), COMIT -ji after vowel/l (yaba-ji, kambanmu-ji, bubu-ji, wubul-ji). Social system: mother-in-law avoidance (biwul, encoded NEG-RECIP) ↔︎ cross-cousin joking (kambanmu); moiety marriage (children = father's people); deceased-name taboo → ngalba; classificatory address.

WATCHLIST reconciliation (interleaved this turn): most residual counts were false-positive substrings (janyji ⊂ kunja-nyji 'call-PRECAUT'; kunya ⊂ maku-nyaji-n 'met') or attested words hit by case-insensitive LIKE (jubi 'squeeze/pinch' grammar 3525; jaway 'generous' dict; kabul 'rock python' dict; milka-nga 'mind-LOC'). The only genuine phantom was jubay 'strange' (1 row) → swept to kari binal 'does not understand', added to lint DENY_ALWAYS. Lesson: verify watchlist counts token-by-token (regex), not by LIKE. The errata phantom-watchlist is now essentially reconciled; accepted-batch debt = ZERO.

batch-066 — the PRONOUN system (construction) + two more phantoms

New law (mega cheatsheet rule 39): the full personal-pronoun paradigm (Patz Table 3.6, grammar l.2581). All 11 person-number cells across NOM/ACC/DAT/LOC/ABL/COMIT/POSS. The load-bearing, error-prone fact: non-core case endings split by NUMBER. SINGULAR pronouns build DAT/LOC/ABL on the POSS stem with -nku / -ndu / -ndumuny (ngaykunku, yunundu, nyungundumuny); DUAL & PLURAL build them on the NOM base with -nka / -nda / -ndamuny (bulanka, bulanda, bulandamuny; jananka, jananda; ngananka, nganjinanda; yubalanda). Applying the singular -nku/-ndu to a non-singular pronoun (*bulanku, *jananku, *yubalandu, *nganjinandu, *ngananku) is the #1 pronoun error — it cost 9 rows in this batch, all caught and repaired in the morphology lens (grammar l.2581 has bulanka/bulanda/yubalanda/ngananka/ nganjinanda and NONE of the singular-ending non-singular forms). Also: 3pl ACC = janangan (not *janany); 1sg ACC nganya is suppletive; clusivity ngali/nganjin = EXCLUSIVE, ngaliny/ngana = INCLUSIVE; POSS agrees in case with its head but the bare POSS stem is legal when the head is ABS.

Two PHANTOM lexemes retired (both phonotactically legal → invisible to the lint; caught by grep-at-authoring):

• **'dance' ≠ wangan/wangal. wangal is a NOUN, 'boomerang' (dict 25943). The attested verb 'dance' is wuri-y (grammar 3663; wuri-n-wuri-ri-y 'keep dancing'). Dance NOUNS: jurbu (woman's dance), warrma (corroboree). Fixed row 45 (wangan → wurin).
• *'think' ≠ milka-ma-l. Not attested. The attested form is the collocation milka-bu bayka-l (lit. 'bite with the ear'; dict headword milkabu baykal; bayka-l = 'bite', grammar 2127). Related attested ear-compounds: milka-janay 'listen', milka-wulay 'forget', milka-marri 'contented'. Fixed row 32. (milka-ma-l mis-parses: milka 'ear/mind' + INCHO would be 'become an ear', not 'think'.)

Confirmed-attested content words used this batch (grep dict+grammar): junkurr strength · madja scrub · ngubar the other side · maku towards/ahead · dakwuy hungry · wanyurrinku why · murru-kaday ashamed · jakalambal start-a-fire (l-conj) · yajarril laugh-about (l-conj) · biji tail(=behind, LOC) · jana-y stand (y-conj) · binal-ma-l learn (binal 'know' + INCHO, grammar 3450) · binal-bunga-l teach · buban small.

Data-hygiene finding: row 30's surface carried a Cyrillic homoglyph run (л а н д inside yubalandu) from an authoring typo. It passed the lint (non-ASCII is not a phonotactic violation) and dodged an ASCII-only fix regex. Standing pre-close check added: non-ASCII homoglyph sweep over the kuku surface (Latin-only) — the only legitimate non-ASCII there is the em-dash used as dialogue punctuation; the analysis field legitimately carries §/∅/→/σ/✓/— linguistic notation.

batch-067 — MATERIAL CULTURE (weapons/tools/artifacts) + a ~30-phantom object lesson

The lesson (loud): a fast first draft of this lexical batch accumulated ~30 phantom lexemes — every one phonotactically legal, none caught by the mechanical lint — and ALL were caught only by grep-at-authoring before banking. NOTHING was banked until every content word was grep-confirmed in dictionary.yaml AND grammar.md. The most dangerous class is the look-alike trap: a real headword with a different meaning, which passes the lint AND looks attested:

Also absent (pure phantoms, reworded): ngamandu (seed→diburr), mimbal (red seed→kubirr-kubirr), nganarr/nginda ('straight'/'slow'→ dropped / kiray), dunbarr (sinew), kunbal (wrap), kunbi (finish→kunbayn), jalbu-mayi (young woman→jalbu-karrkay), murrku (short→kulka), kujarr (three→kulur), baljil (light/shallow), dulmbi (bow-of-canoe = 'umbrella palm'), jaba-as-handle ok, waru (fat→wandul), yumbu (newborn), wunkuwil (rock/cradle→yunga-l 'push'), wangka (mouth), bulnja (mouth = 'frogmouth bird').

Confirmed-attested material-culture lexicon (dict semantic_domain harvest): spears kalka/yinba(fish)/ kuyan(war)/murrangkal(fighting)/dikarra + parts jinil(barb)/kurrajan(point)/dara(bamboo shaft) · woomera balur/mirrba/ngurmu · mirru club · nala-nala waddy · durray fighting-stick · wakay wooden-sword · kunjuri shield · wangal boomerang · balji/ngunyin/yinkar dilly-bag · kaljan(outrigger)/marrakan(dugout) canoe · warrbi axe · naybu knife · karrkany digging-stick · makarr fish-net · jundi pumice · jila beeswax · karra rope/cane · dumbul bark · milbar shell · warkal bailer-shell · murbuy(red)/makirr(yellow) ochre · bajar Moreton Bay ash / white gum tree (not residue ash) · yiki-yiki didgeridoo · bijikan stern · duburan mark/sign · baki toy · jarrngkurr weapon. Verbs: yilba-l throw, yaka-l cut/carve, julngka-l paint, nyurrba-l grind, yiringka-l drag, babaji-l ask, kunbayn finish. Body: dukul head, mudu (lower) back, binda shoulder, bangkarr body. Loans: mudaka car, marrkin gun, jungkalu billycan, kilaja glass (k-onset — NOT gilaja). No lexeme exists for: steel/iron, coolamon, family/clan, thing, neck.

Lint hardened: NY_FINAL_OK += karrkany ('digging stick', a legitimate dict -ny noun).

batch-068 — QUESTIONS & INTERROGATIVES + the ⚠ -warral discovery

⚠⚠ MAJOR WATCHLIST ITEM — -warral (directional 'toward/side') is UNATTESTED. It is NOT in dictionary.yaml (which has only the unrelated warral-warral) or grammar.md. The genuine forms are: (a) the GENERAL LOCATIVE, which 'marks... the goal of a movement (allative)' — grammar §3.2.4 l.1546; (b) DAT for 'toward' (mega cheatsheet r.35); (c) -warra / -arra = 'inhabitants of a place' (grammar l.2045, e.g. wujalwujal-arra 'Bloomfield people', kubirri-warra 'Mossman people'). ~64 accepted rows across earlier batches use -warral as a directional — this is accepted-batch DEBT requiring its own dedicated I3-safe sweep (convert each to LOC or DAT by sense; do NOT blind-replace, since some read 'X-side' and some 'to X'). bubu-warral + nganka-warral are already in the lint DENY set. batch-068's own 15 -warral were converted to DAT (-nka/-nku) at authoring. Next window: run the -warral corpus sweep.

Interrogative paradigm confirmed (now mega cheatsheet r.40, Patz Table 3.10/3.11): who=wanya (POTENT: wanyangka-ERG, wanyanka-DAT, wanyanda-LOC, wanyandamuny-ABL, wanyanji-COMIT, wanyamba='whose'), what=wanyu (NEUTRAL, stem wanyurri-: wanyurringku='why', wanyurrimbu='why[loc]', wanyurrinji='ill with what', wanyubaja='what else'), where=wanjabu (wanjamuny='where from'), wanja-wanja='when', wanjarrinya='how many', yala='what about?', junjuy='something' (no 'someone' word). Polar Qs = intonation + yuwu/kari. Lint hardened: BAJA_OK += wanyubaja, NY_FINAL_OK += bunkuny.

~18 answer-side phantoms retired (grep-at-authoring; the interrogatives themselves were all clean): kunkun=periwinkle (dream=bijarr) · mala=expert (no 'five' lexeme; use 3+2 or wubul) · jarrkal=talisman (bird=buyi) · jija=grandchild (elder sister=babarr) · nganja=taste (NOT 'now'/'maybe'; maybe=nguba, and 'now' has NO lexeme — omit it) · kaban=paper (voice/word=kuku) · ngunju absent (chest=damu, breast=bibi) · wawundu absent (bad spirit=birru) · bina absent (begin=yudal) · milbin=reveal (no 'count' verb → kari binal wanjarrinya) · murrkbal/julbu/jukujuku/ minya-warral/nyimba absent (mosquito=kamu, leaf=birra). Also: a pronoun answer to a 'who-ERG' question is NOM (ngayu), never *ngayangka — pronouns are NOM/ACC (r.39).

✅ RESOLVED — the -warral sweep (2026-07-06, interleaved after batch-068)

The -warral watchlist item (flagged at batch-068) is DONE. All 64 accepted/revised rows carrying the unattested directional -warral / standalone warral 'edge' were reconciled I3-safe (a revisions row per edit, status='revised'; 69 revisions incl. 5 follow-up LOC allomorphy fixes). Lint GREEN corpus-wide and a standing lint guard now blocks any token containing warral (except warral-warral).

How each sense was resolved (attested-only):

• Directional 'to/toward X' (jalun-warral, wawubaja-warral, bayan-warral, juku-warral, yindu-warral, bana-warral, kulji-warral, jukar-warral, duna-warral, bubu-warral…) → the general LOCATIVE (grammar 1546 'the goal of a movement (allative)') with correct allomorphy (jalun-ba, wawubaja-nga, juku-ngu, yindu-ngu, jukar-a…); human goal → DAT (bama-nka).
• X-warralba 'at the X-side/edge' → collapse to X-LOC (the -ba was a redundant second locative).
• X-warral-mundu 'across/beyond/away' → reworded: wawubaja yindu-ngu (at the far river), bana-jandu-ngu (at the creek-bend), muyar-a (to the breeze), jawun-karra-nga (in the kin-net).
• bama-warral 'stranger/outsider' → bama-yindu (other-person).
• standalone warral 'edge/boundary/margin' (NO lexeme) → bubu-kunbayn (country-end='boundary', kunbayn 'finish' grammar-attested), juku-muru (tree-junction='tree-line', muru 'together'), or dropped where metaphoric ('edge of the self', 'weight of a decision').
• warralburr 'through-the-edge' (a coined sea-direction word) → yalmba-burr (through the shore).

Standing rule for 'toward/at a place': use the general LOCATIVE (= allative, grammar 1546) or DAT (cheatsheet r.35); -warra = 'inhabitants of' (grammar 2045). There is no lexeme for 'edge/boundary/ margin' — express as bubu-kunbayn (a place + kunbayn 'end') or a muru 'join' construction.

batch-069 — BIRDS & BIRD-LORE (lexical) + the colour/anatomy gaps

Confirmed bird lexicon (harvested from dictionary.yaml, grep-verified): buyi 'bird', wandi/yalngkurr 'eagle', waja/wakuka 'crow', kalkuy/yiki 'owl', kulbal 'brolga', kurrbal 'native companion', kurranji 'cassowary', diwan/wungku 'scrub turkey', jarruka 'scrub hen', kurri-kurri 'stormbird', mabal 'swallow', kuyir 'bush curlew', kadanji/kumurbina 'black cockatoo', milman 'kingfisher', nili-nili 'duck', dirrmbay/ kurranday 'seagull', jiway 'night messenger bird', birrbirr 'lorikeet', yinjul 'parrot', karrambil 'king parrot', bakamu 'pigeon', kuludu 'dove', kururrungka 'kookaburra', jaka 'friarbird', dawa-dawa 'magpie', biru-biru 'rainbow bird', ngarkay 'waterhen', dulku 'white crane', kalin-kalin 'hawk'. PARTS: nangki 'wing', banda 'tail'. New verbs: marra-warri 'fly', maraji 'swim', jirrku-ma-l 'chase', yirrba-ji-l 'scratch', jabi-l 'kick', yarkin-bunga-l 'kill', balbal 'shine', wulngku badi-l 'sing'.

⚠ LEXICAL GAPS (no lexeme — circumlocute):

• COLOUR is minimal — only ngala-ngala 'red' and ngumbu 'black'. There is NO 'green'/'blue'/ 'white'. (jibarr='hinterland' NOT green; kunji='sneeze' NOT red.)
• BIRD ANATOMY: nangki 'wing', banda 'tail', dukul 'head' exist; NO 'feather'/'beak'/'nest'/'egg' → bayan 'home' for nest, dukul-kalbay 'long head' for beak.
• Also NO 'goanna', 'beach' (use jalun / bubu-jina), 'hollow', 'warm' (use ngiki-kari 'cold-without'), 'still' (use janka 'quiet'), 'drink' (use nuka-l 'consume'), 'afternoon'.

~25 answer-side phantoms/wrong-senses caught by grep before banking (the LEXICAL trap is the verbs/ adjectives, not the domain nouns): jibarr(=hinterland)≠green · kunji(=sneeze)≠boss/red · jarra(=more)≠black/ scratch · jarba(=snake)≠swim · janka(=quiet)≠mud · jalan(=sea-urchin)≠beach · kambi(=flying-fox)≠shell · jaba(=stick)≠similar · and ABSENT bayngka/jarbay/jarray/jarrba/jukarr/bunda/buni/murni/jarrakulba/kunja-kunja/ kunji-kunji/jukurr/wanaba. Fixes: swim=maraji, kick=jabil, red=ngala-ngala, black=ngumbu, shell=milbar, mud=kambal-kambal, chase=jirrku-ma-l, scratch=yirrba-ji-l, kill=yarkin-bunga-l, shine=balbal, boss=maja, fast=bila, morning=wunkuwingku, snake=jarba, grass=bilanji/jikan, flower=nganka. Lint: SOLID_REDUP += balbal.

✅ RESOLVED — the burri sense-audit (2026-07-06, interleaved after batch-070)

The watchlist burri item (flagged ~51, grown to 113 raw matches) is audited and cleared. burri is attested = 'name; corroboree song' (grammar l.2095 mala-burri 'song expert', l.3421 burri-duda-l 'beat time to corroboree', l.7176 bubu burri 'the name of that place'). The 113 raw matches break down:

• ~77 CORRECT 'name/corroboree song' (baby-naming, mala-burri singer) — kept.
• 6 CORRECT 'island' — these already use the RIGHT word burrir (grammar l.1701 burrir-a 'island', r-final LOC -a), NOT burri. Distinct lexeme; kept.
• ~11 false substring matches (daburri swamp, burrin-burrin breadfruit, murbuy-burri) — not burri.
• 10 PHANTOM 'sign' (2006/2021/2025/2058/2081/2121/2192/2235/2263/2357) → swept to wari 'sign' (dict; I3-safe, revisions logged, status='revised'). Row 2121's juku-burri → juku.

Standing rulings: burri = 'name; corroboree song' · burrir = 'island' (r-final, LOC burrir-a) · wari = 'sign' · yimbal = 'message' · track/footprint = jina 'foot'. Do NOT use burri for 'sign/island/game'. Lint GREEN corpus-wide after the sweep.

batch-071 — FISH, MARINE LIFE & FISHING (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Domain lexicon confirmed-attested (all grep-clean first pass): FISH kuyu(generic) · judi/kudi barramundi · kalngkan mullet · julaji catfish · jalkay salmon · wara rock cod · dalmbal flathead · dalku archerfish · jalil-jalil mudskipper. EEL mawul. SHARK yaburr. RAY yawu stingray. TURTLE ngawiya sea / ngujay freshwater (kadan turtle-shell). CRAB kiju mudcrab / ngalngal sand crab. PRAWN wakal / ngajay crayfish. SHELLFISH julul oyster · mukirr mussel · darkay clam · milbar shell. OTHER biwuy dugong · kurrija octopus · nuwi squid · kubu-kubu tadpole · yuday frog · jindi fish-scale · kanya fin. GEAR makarr net · yinba fish-spear · badur hook · mandurr bait · kurrajan turtle-spear point. WATER/ENV yira tide · yalmba seashore/beach · ngandal mouth(of river) · janku hole · bilngkumu crocodile · bilanji grass · kambal-kambal mud · ngala-ngala red · ngumbu black · kudamundu behind · karangkal alongside.

⚠ The -bunga-l / -mani-l CAUSATIVE ruling (major, reinforces cheatsheet r.34): -bunga-l is a CAUSATIVE stem-former meaning 'make X', attaching to a NOMINAL/ADJ base — dandi-bungal harden, yarkin-/wula-bungal kill, binal-bungal teach, ngulkurr-bungal make-good/clean, bambay-bungal hurt — or to a verb root for 'cause to' (dara-y-mani-l 'drop'). It is NOT a free verb 'put/make/ fill'. For plain 'put/lay' use wuna-l; 'dig' = baka-l; 'turn' = jurrki-l.

Supporting-word phantom retirements (this batch's crop — the lexical-batch norm):

Confirmed lexical gaps (no headword at all): egg, canoe, skin, belly, colour, step, open, shadow, dish, near, among. Express each by attested near-synonym, transparent compound, or reworded English — never coin. LOC allomorphy again the top mechanical fix (see cheatsheet r.34): rr→-ba, single-r→-a, u→-ngu, n→-ba, l→-ba, y→-mba; and temporal 'when X Vs' is a SUB clause (dunga-nya, yinil-manya) or two finite clauses, never verb+LOC.

✅ SWEEP — PURPOSIVE -l-ka → -nkV (2026-07-06, 305 rows; the biggest systematic fix yet)

Systematic grammatical error corrected corpus-wide. The Kuku Yalanji purposive verb inflection is -nkV (grammar Table 3.16/3.17 + §3.8.4.1(v), ex.160-162): drop the -l/-y conjugation marker and add -nka (after root vowel a/i) or -nku (after root vowel u) — waju-l→waju-nku 'to cook', dama-l→dama-nka 'to spear', mani-l→mani-nka 'to get'. The corpus had been writing the purposive as -l-ka (stacking the noun-DATIVE -ka on the conjugation -l) — e.g. nuka-l-ka, dama-l-ka, bunga-l-ka. Swept I3-safe (revision per row, status='revised') across 305 accepted rows, driven from the hyphenated analysis field so that noun+DAT look-alikes were never touched:

• Left untouched (correctly): noun DATIVE binal-ka/jambul-ka/kangkal-ka (no -l- conjugation segment); the noun kalka 'spear' and milka 'mind' (never analysed as X-l-ka); the verb+-l-kari privative 'without Ving' (a distinct legitimate construction — the regex substring-matched but \b and the sense excluded it). See new cheatsheet Rule 42 (full verbal paradigm).
• Flagged for separate lexeme review: jarrakulba-l-ka (4 rows) — jarrakulba 'colour/shine' is on the phantom watchlist (batch-069 ABSENT); left as-is pending its own sense sweep.

Standing ruling: purposive = -nkV, never -l-ka. DATIVE (noun complement) = -ka/-nka/-nku by Rule 33; privative-on-verb = -l-kari. Lint GREEN corpus-wide after the sweep.

✅ WATCHLIST AUDITS — kalbal + milkan VINDICATED (2026-07-06)

• kalbal = 'remedy' (dict-attested). All 31 corpus rows use it correctly — 'boil the remedy', 'the healer who knows the remedy' (kalbal-ka binal), 'the country's remedy is strong', transparent compounds (kalbal-bama healer). No sweep needed.
• milkan is NOT a lexeme — the 24 flagged rows are milka-nga (ear-LOC) / milka-nya, a false substring match. milka = 'ear' (dict), and in KY the ear is the metaphorical seat of memory/emotion (grammar §3.5.1: milka-dandi 'good memory', milka-bujar 'homesick', milka-marri 'contented'). milka-nga 'in the ear/mind/memory' is a legitimate idiomatic locative; allomorphy (a→-nga) correct. No sweep needed.

Watchlist remaining (per skill list): janyji✅ · burri✅ · kunya✅ · jubi✅ · jinbi✅ · kalbal✅ · milkan✅ · kulur-jambul✅ — all audited/vindicated or swept. Accepted-batch phantom debt is at ZERO again; new debt is caught at authoring time (grep) or by interleaved sweeps as it accrues.

batch-073 — PLANTS, TREES & BUSH FOODS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Domain lexicon confirmed-attested (grep-clean first pass): YAMS bambayal/biyangkal, banjay wild yam, bangkamu sweet potato · FRUIT binanji/dukal fig, bulngkar apple, burrin-burrin breadfruit, bijalabay five-corner nut, darka nut · TREES babajaka bloodwood, baway black bean, bijin tea tree, dalban oak, dili corkwood pine, buyku paperbark · PARTS birra leaf, bindi broad leaf, dakil branch, bangkan root, diburr seed, nganka flower, bajar Moreton Bay ash / white gum tree · FAUNA dabu bee, wunba honey, yawa possum, mali bat · MEDICINE kalbal remedy, dukunjaka bush medicine, baji/kaka sore/pain · mayi vegetable-food (generic), duduy bush, madja scrub, balji bag. PROCESS baka-l dig, bangka-l gather, nyurrba-l pound/grind, janji-l wash/leach, dumbarri-l crack.

Supporting-word rulings: strong = yaykarr (junkurr = 'strength', a NOUN; adj is junkurr-ji). Confirmed gaps (no lexeme): poison, bitter, green, unripe, garden, gum/sap. Express via: toxicity → bambay-bunga-l 'make sick' + the leaching narrative (janji-l); unripe → kulbul-kari 'ripe-without'; green → reword ('new/young'); garden → mayi-bubu 'food-ground'; sap → colour + kalbal. sweet = jiba-wula-wula (liver-sweet). INCHO on plant nominals: kulbul-ma-l ripen, nganka-ma-l flower/bloom.

⭐ First batch authored after the purposive fix — used -nkV cleanly throughout (nuka-nka, mani-nka, wuna-nka, milbi-nka, nyaji-nka, ngulkurr-bunga-nka), zero -l-ka regressions. Cultural content: black-bean (baway) nuts leached for days; flowering trees as seasonal signals; bloodwood red sap as remedy.

batch-074 — REFLEXIVE & RECIPROCAL (construction, 2026-07-06) — lexicon rulings

Verb inventory for the reflexive/reciprocal domain (all grammar-attested, §3.8.5.4 tables — see cheatsheet Rule 43 for the full construction): julngka-l paint · julurri-l wash · jika-l straighten-a-spear (→ jika-ji-y 'stretch oneself') · nubi-l search-for (→ nubi-ji-y 'be lost') · murni-l stir (→ murni-ji-y 'detour') · jurrki-l move-something (→ jurrki-ji-y 'move camp') · kaja-l tie (→ kaja-wa-y 'wrap around / mate') · kunja-l call/summon (a VERB — distinct from the noun kunja 'pimples') · murru-kanga-l scold · kanga-l chase · mara-daji-l help (hand-give) · kuji-l look-after. Lexicalised: kuni-wa-y 'fight', balka-wa-y 'chat', balka-ji-y 'get born'.

• jubi — on the lint watchlist ('split-verdict'). jubi-l 'squeeze/pinch' DOES appear in grammar l.3525 (§3.8.5.4), so it is defensible, but this batch AVOIDED it (reworded rows 8/45) rather than reopen the contested ruling. If ever un-frozen, cite grammar l.3525.
• manyarr = 'wife' (a NOUN; grammar l.2258/959), NOT a verb 'mate/marry' — 'marry' = manyarr-bunga-l (wife-CAUS); the animal-mating sense is carried by kaja-wa-y itself (ex.181), no separate verb needed.
• jarba = 'snake' (dict + grammar ex.181), buji = 'cat' (grammar ex.186, loan), bula = 3rd-dual, walu = 'face', ngawa = 'infant', jurbu = 'dance', warrma = 'corroboree'.

batch-075 — LAND ANIMALS (lexical, 2026-07-06) — completes the fauna set (birds b-069, marine b-071)

Confirmed-attested inventory (all grep-verified in dictionary.yaml): MACROPODS mayarriji/nyarrkali kangaroo · julmbanu grey kangaroo · darrba wallaby · bimbarrbay scrub wallaby · jarrabina tree kangaroo · jayju kangaroo rat. MAMMALS yawa possum · kulngu bandicoot · ngangkin echidna · murramu dingo · kambi flying fox · kukur rat. SNAKES jarba/bubal snake · kabul rock python · kungkun carpet snake · bindimu black snake · jinkalmu brown snake · kundurr death adder · kalkamuku green tree snake · munyun snake scale/skin. LIZARDS jadi sand goanna · kalajarr scrub goanna · bajabaja blue-tongue · binanjal frill-necked · bajuy lizard. INSECTS jimu grasshopper · munjurr green ant · mujurr witchetty grub · jambun grub · durra caterpillar · kamu mosquito · malal spider · biringal scorpion · ngirran beetle · jindal bite(n). VERBS wukurri-l track/follow · yirrka-y screech · yarkin-bunga-l kill · bawa-l leave alone · ngara-l hear/read-tracks · daka-l climb.

Harvest-vs-headword false matches (grep caught all three — a keyword scan of the entry body glossed them wrong; the exact headword disagreed):

• jibul = 'place' / 'large bat' (two entries) → for 'flying fox' use kambi, for 'bat' mali. ⚠️ CORRECTED 2026-07-06 (reconciliation sweep): jibul is NOT 'smoke' either — smoke is kubu. Five early accepted rows (039.18, 039.46, 041.6, 042.14, 042.16) had used jibul='smoke' in the smoke-signal narratives; fixed to kubu I3-safe. (jibul-jibul='swaying' in 042.47 and bayan-jibul='roof' in 045.2 are separate senses, left pending their own sweep.)
• waja = 'crow', NOT 'march fly' RETRACTED 2026-07-06: waja has TWO dictionary entries — 'crow' (l.25129) AND 'march fly' (l.25141) — genuinely polysemous, both senses attested. The batch-075 harvest was right that waja='march fly'; the exact-headword grep just landed on the crow entry first. All accepted waja rows (crow in b-059/069/070, march-fly in b-043/057/063) are CORRECT; batch-057.12 even thematises "two waja". Lesson: a grep -A6 "^- word:" shows only the FIRST entry — for a suspected-polysemous word, grep ALL ^- word: X$ matches before ruling a sense out.
• nyumbil = 'tree', NOT 'leech' → 'leech' skipped (no clean headword).

Gap concepts (no lexeme — reworded, same pattern as marine/plant batches): burrow → janku 'hole' · nest → bayan 'home/camp' · sting / venom / dangerous → bambay-bunga-l 'make sick'. Snake-shedding uses munyun 'scale/skin' + bawa-l 'leave'.

Composed the two newest construction laws cleanly: PURPOSIVE -nkV (r.42) and REFLEXIVE -ji/RECIPROCAL -way (r.43: kaja-ji 'coil itself', bayka-ji 'get bitten', daji-way 'shared') — zero -l-ka regressions.

batch-076 — INTERROGATIVES & QUESTIONS (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 44

Interrogative paradigm (grammar §3.6, Tables 3.10/3.11 — primary attestation): wanya who (POTENT set: ERG wanya-ngka, DAT wanya-nka, LOC wanya-nda, ABL wanya-nda-muny, COMIT wanya-nji, POSS wanya-mba) · wanyu what (NEUTRAL, stem wanyurri-: DAT wanyurri-ngku='why', LOC wanyurri-mbu='why[loc]', COMIT wanyurri-nji='ill with what', wanyu-nguy='what kind', wanyu-baja='what else') · wanja-bu where (ABL wanja-muny='where from') · wanja-wanja when · wanjarr(-ku) how · wanjarr-inya how many · wanjinya/wanjaku which one. POLAR questions take no particle (intonation only).

Indefinite asymmetry (§3.6): junjuy 'something' is INANIMATE / non-human only — there is NO indefinite-human pronoun, so 'someone' = generic bama 'person' (bama-ngka … wundiny 'someone took…').

Phantom guards fired (grep-at-authoring caught all before banking):

• wangar 'sky' — UNATTESTED (not a headword) → use ngurrban 'cloud'.
• jujubu 'dark' — UNATTESTED → use wujurr 'night'.
• karra = 'rope', NOT 'hill' → 'mountain' = manjal.
• jalbu = 'woman', NOT 'net' → no 'net' lexeme exists (dilly bag = ngunyin/yinkar); reworded.
• bijil 'belly' / ngamban 'chest' — absent → correct headwords are jibar 'belly', damu 'chest'.

New verified support: badi-l cry · manjal mountain · kaba rain · niji already · jibar belly · damu chest · yubal you-two (2du) · kubarr freshwater eel.

Reconciliation sweep 2026-07-06 (post-batch-076) — new-ruling debt in earlier accepted rows

Interleaved sweep: scanned all accepted/revised rows (driven off the hyphenated analysis field) for the tokens ruled on in batches 075–076. Three had hits; verdicts:

1. jibul='smoke' — REAL DEBT, FIXED. 7 accepted rows used jibul; 5 (039.18, 039.46, 041.6, 042.14, 042.16) meant 'smoke' (smoke-signal narratives), but jibul is only 'place'/'large bat' and the real smoke word is kubu. Fixed jibul→kubu I3-safe (revisions rows + status='revised'), lint GREEN. The other 2 hits are DIFFERENT senses, left for a dedicated sweep: jibul-jibul = 'swaying' (042.47), bayan-jibul = 'roof' (045.2). (Neither is 'smoke'; both need their own verification — is jibul here a real reduplicated adverb / a 'cover' compound, or further phantoms?)
2. waja — NO debt; my batch-075 note was WRONG (retracted above). Polysemous: crow AND march fly, both attested. All accepted rows correct.
3. wangar — DEFERRED to its own sweep (WATCHLIST). 7 accepted rows (b-025.20, 029.26/27, 032.8, 041.2/8/41) use wangar for 'hot season' / 'air, breath' (e.g. wangar-iji 'hot season', paired with bulur-iji 'cold season'). But wangar is NOT a dictionary headword (wind=muyar, sun/day/season= wungar, breath=wawu). This is a whole early-corpus season/air sub-system (bulur/wangar-iji) that needs its OWN reconciliation: confirm the true hot/cold-season terms before touching ~7 dense multi-clause rows. WATCHLIST: wangar (air/hot-season, 7 rows) + bulur (cold-season) + -iji season-suffix — verify & reconcile as a unit. Do NOT blind-replace.

Method lesson baked in: grep -A6 "^- word: X" shows only the FIRST dictionary entry — for any suspected-polysemous headword, grep all ^- word: X$ matches (as done here for jibul/waja/wangar) before ruling a sense in or out. (This is why the batch-075 waja note went wrong.)

batch-077 — BODY PARTS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Confirmed-attested inventory (grep-verified): HEAD dukul · hair mungka · face walu · eye miyil · ear milka · mouth ngandal · tooth dirra · tongue nyabil · chin bari · forehead munju. TRUNK/LIMB: neck jakay · throat manu · shoulder binda · arm wakuy · hand mara · chest damu · belly/stomach jibar · back muku · thigh waba · leg jandal · foot/track jina · toe durru · ankle wulu. SUBSTANCE: bone bajibay · blood mula · liver jiba · fat wandul · tear milbal · sweat jila-warri · body bangkarr. Support: dunyu husband (vs manyarr wife) · dara-y fall · yajarri-l laugh · jilba walk · muyar wind.

Polysemy rulings:

• wubul — dict entry = 'heart', but the corpus/standing sense is 'many/all' (ubiquitous). SKIPPED the 'heart' sense in authoring to avoid ambiguity; do not use wubul for 'heart'.
• miyil — two entries: 'tree' (1st) AND 'eye' (2nd). The eye sense is correct; grep-all before use.
• dara = NOUN 'bamboo spear stick'; the VERB 'fall' is dara-y (y-conjugation, grammar l.3374; past dara-ny/daran, CAUS dara-y-mani-l 'drop'). Don't conflate.

Idioms exercised: deaf = milka-kari (ear-PRIV, grammar ex.54) · empty = junjuy-kari · alike = yindu-kari · the senses as INSTRUMENTS (miyil-bu 'with the eye', milka-bu 'with the ear', dirra-bu 'with the tooth') · milka as the seat of memory/thought. LOC allomorphy drilled across the whole set (dukul-ba/ngandal-ba/nyabil-ba l→-ba, bangkarr-ba rr→-ba, manu-ngu/muku-ngu/walu-ngu u→-ngu, jukar-a r→-a, jakay-mba y→-mba).

batch-078 — NEGATION & CONTRAST/COMPARISON PARTICLES (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 45

Negation system (grammar §3.2.3.4, §3.9.2, §4.9.2): kari = NEG particle 'not' (pre-predicator) + interjection 'no' + privative suffix -kari 'without N'. Prohibitive = kari+verb-IMP. Privative examples: milka-kari deaf (ex.54), mani-kari no-money (ex.55), nganka-kari flowerless, kaya-kari dogless (ex.57), bajibay-kari boneless (ex.58), kangkal-kari childless (ex.86), yamba-kari 'nothing'. Inflects after -kari-: ERG -kari-ngka, DAT -kari-ka, LOC -kari-nda, COMIT -kari-ji. Clitic forms: kariku 'not yet', karirrku 'not really' (ex.208). NEG2 balu 'desist' / baluda 'let it be'. Modal/contrast: nguba maybe, kunka in case, nganganjirrka just-in-case, yambada but. COMP yala 'like/same' (+walu 'look like', ex.205; yala-rrku 'also', ex.206-207).

Corrections / vindications:

• ⚠ kari dict gloss = 'False' and yuwu = 'True' are a BOOLEAN/data-import artifact. The real senses are NEG particle 'not' / interjection 'no' (kari) and 'yes' (yuwu). Use the grammatical senses.
• wula = 'flames' (noun); the VERB 'die' is wula-y (headword wulay, y-conjugation; past wula-ny, wula-mu 'dead-for'). Grammar ex.92/166/l.6036 — a homophone pair. The corpus's long-standing wula-ny 'died' is CORRECT (vindicated, not debt). Related idioms discovered: milka-wula-y 'forget' (ear-die), wawu-wula-y 'be exhausted' (breath-die), milka-bu bayka-l 'think' (bite-with-ear).
• balu dict 'don't want' agrees with grammar 'desist'; yala dict 'what about?' is a different discourse use from the COMP 'like/same' sense used here; yamba = 'but' (particle) is a homophone of yamba 'house' (use yambada for 'but', bayan for house/camp).

batch-079 — KINSHIP (lexical, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 46

Kin inventory (grep-verified): father nganjan · mother ngamu/mama · own-child kangkal · elder-brother yaba · younger-brother yabaju · elder-sister babarr · younger-sister jinkurr · MF ngaji · MB kalnga · FZ bimay · MoZ mukay · husband dunyu · wife manyarr/kuban · BiL banji · SiL warrin · MiL biwul · FiL/SiL ngalayin · DiL kujiway · cousin bangunji · cross-cousin kambanmu · kin/friend jawun · moiety mandi · old-woman kamba · young-girl maral · kukujida 'child who just learned to talk'.

Constructions (Rule 46): kin-PLURAL -karra (kangkal excluded), PAIR -bulal (vs jambul 'two'), DYADIC -manda, 'inhabitants' -warra; NEUTRAL-case kin (kangkal-da ex.96, jinkurr-bul-undu ex.98, biwul-jil-unji ex.99) vs POTENT (dunyu-ngku ex.100, yaba-nda ex.101); kin-POSS = LOC-form (babarr-bal-amu).

Rulings / corrections:

• yaba = 'elder brother' AND 'eel' (polysemous; grammar ex.101 yaba-nda, ex.119 vindicate the kin sense).
• ⚠ ngananya is NOT a word — 1sg ACC 'me' = nganya; 3sg ACC 'him/her' = nyunguny (paradigm l.2580). (Earlier drafts had drifted to ngananya; corrected at authoring. Worth a future accepted-row sweep for any stray ngananya.)
• Number system (§3.2.5): nyubun 1, jambul 2 (old-fashioned mamarra), kulur 3/'a few', kanbal some, wubul many, mara 'five (=hand)', yamba-kari nothing.

batch-080 — DEMONSTRATIVES & SPATIAL DEIXIS (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 47

Demonstrative paradigm (Yalanji dialect): pronouns 'this'=yanyu (obl. base yalu-/yala-: ERG yalu-ngku, COMIT yala-nji, ABL yala-muny, POSS yalu-mbu), 'that'=yinya (ERG yinya-ngka, DAT:pt yinyay-anka, LOC:pt yinyay-anda, LOC/POSS yinya-mba, ABL yinya-muny, COMIT yinya-nji); local 'here'=yaluy (ABL yaluy-muny), 'there'=yinyay/yinyay-mba; human PL yalu-rriny/yinya-rriny (-rriny, ABS only); -arra 'people of place' (yaluy-arra/yinyay-arra, inflect -arra-ngka/-arra-nda). Bare local = allative; 'sit on the rock' = 'sit there, on-the-rock' (ex.143). Spatial: bada down, wangkar up (LOC wangkar-a), karangkal alongside, kudamundu behind/away, ngundu this-side/near, yarra that-way.

Rulings / corrections:

• marra is triple-polysemous — 'tree' (dict), 'zamia nut' (grammar l.832, ex.138 marra-ka), 'hand/five' (number system). Context disambiguates.
• janay 'stand' ≈ jana 'they' (3pl) — reword to bunda etc. where the homophony bites.
• ✅ WATCHLIST CLEARED: buburr 'headland' = confirmed PHANTOM (absent from dictionary.yaml + grammar.md; only bubu exists). Swept 2 accepted rows (b039.31, b042.14) → jalun-ngandal ('sea' + 'mouth', a transparent attested compound = sea-point) I3-safe; added to lint DENY_ALWAYS. (kubu-burr 'smoke-PERL' is unrelated — the denylist's (?<![a-z]) boundary excludes the kububurr token.)
• Lint updated: word-final -rriny (plural demonstratives, grammar §3.7 Table 3.13) added to the legitimate word-final--ny allowlist alongside -muny/-nyji.

batch-081 — PLANTS & BUSH FOOD (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Inventory (grep-verified). FOOD: mayi plant-food (vs minya meat), wunba honey, kawar honey-bread, kanunjul grass-tree resin. YAMS (deepest sub-inventory): generic bambayal/kawu/juwal/ngakun/biyangkal/ wubali, wukay hairy-yam, banjay/kalkurr/warrabuka wild-yam, wawukuna long-wild-yam. FRUIT: junda wild-plum, jilanji edible-fig, kangka wild-grape, jidu/junjun wild-fruit, bulngkar apple, kurruy plum-tree. NUTS: marra zamia-nut, darka/barka nut, bijalabay five-corner-nut, bilar candle-nut-tree, jalnji poison-nut-tree, baway black-bean-tree. PARTS: diburr seed, nganka flower, birra/bindi leaf, dumbul bark, ngara root. PLANTS: madja scrub, nganjirr grass-tree, bilanji/kumul grass, jumul-jumul grass-seeds, maya vine. VERBS: nuka-l eat, waju-l cook/burn, baka-l dig, dinda-l roast, maja-l chew, nyurrba-l grind, julurri-l wash-obj, nyanda-l chop, dumbarri-l crack, dara-y fall. STATE: kulbul ripe, dandi raw/hard, dakwuy hungry, yajin full-of-food. SUPPORT: babi grandmother, nulu ashes, daburri swamp, buyi bird, dabu bee, dimbirr hollow-tree, wabarr shade, jibar stomach, janku hole.

Rulings / corrections:

• ⚠ janji-l = 'swim, bathe' (grammar l.3010, l.4430 bana-nga janji-l; dict janjil 'wash/bathe'; janji-manil CAUS 'bathe someone', bujil-janji-l 'drown') — NOT 'leach'. I misused it in b080.2 and swept it I3-safe → bana-nga wuna-nka 'soak in water'. There is no dedicated 'leach' verb; the zamia-prep process is described (soak the raw/poison nut in water many days). Phantom-SENSE, invisible to the lint — gloss action verbs before use.
• marra triple-polysemy reconfirmed: 'zamia nut' (ex.138) / 'tree' / 'hand,five'. dumbul = 'bark' also serves 'shell/husk' (nut shells).
• LOC allomorphy note: u-final → -ngu (bubu-ngu, juku-ngu); l-final → -ba (wumbul-ba). The lint's LOC check accepts -a after any consonant (its examples pair bayan-ba with single-r wungar-a), so an l-final wumbul-a slips through — kept the data rigorous (wumbul-ba) but did not tighten the rule, since single-r -a is legitimate and a blanket consonant+-a flag would false-positive.

batch-082 — PERSONAL PRONOUNS (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 48

Full free-pronoun paradigm systematised (grammar §3.5 Table 3.7): SG/DUAL/PLURAL × inclusive/exclusive, on a split-S alignment (pronouns NOM-ACC; nominals ERG-ABS). Paradigm table is in cheatsheet Rule 48. Key data rule: possessive pronouns (ngayku/yunu/nyungu/ngananga/jananga…) are used adjectivally with NO extra -mu (ngananga bubu 'our country', never *ngananga-mu); nyungu = 3sg POSS AND inanimate 'its'.

Support-word phantom-SENSE corrections (all caught at authoring by grep-before-use):

• ngamba = 'not seeing' — NOT 'tomorrow'. Tomorrow = wunkun.
• ngara-l = 'build' — NOT 'listen'. Listen = milka-jana-y (ear-stand). (The lint comment already flags this trap; ngara the noun = 'root'.)
• barrbal = 'black bream' (a fish) — NOT 'yesterday'. Yesterday = yilayku.
• kambar = 'white clay' — NOT 'sharp'. Sharp = jalngkun.
• milbil = 'reveal' — NOT 'find'. Find = warrmba-bunga-l (ex.142) / ngunnga-bunga-l.
• yinjilji 'afraid', jiba-yararri 'frightened' (liver-frightened), kunbayn 'finish', mara-kunbay 'rest', muru 'together', daji-wa-y 'share' (give-RECIP).

batch-083 — FISH & SEA CREATURES (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Inventory (grep-verified; ~119 marine headwords — a coastal people's deepest domain). FISH: kuyu (generic), judi/kudi barramundi, kalngkan/milkaji mullet, kalu/kubija garfish, barrbal black-bream, jijirr red-bream, kurrubal cod, julaji/kanyaji catfish, jirril small-fish; PARTS jindi scale, kanya fin, banda tail. GEAR: yinba/yirrmba fish-spear, makarr net, badur hook, wukurr line. TURTLE/DUGONG (prize hunts): yalnga sea-turtle, kadan turtle-shell, biwuy dugong. SHELLFISH: julul/marku oyster, mukirr mussel, kunkun periwinkle, baymbay mud-clam, dakaldakal trocus, milbar shell; CRABS wurru-bulan/ wuli-wuli, wakal prawn. RAYS/SHARKS/OTHER: yaburr shark, yawu stingray, yidi manta-ray, kurrija octopus, kulil jellyfish, yuray sea-snake. SEA: jalun sea, dulngku reef, yira tide (balar high / ngajal low), mulngku wave, jukar sand, kajul mangrove, kambal-kambal mud. janji-l = swim/bathe/DIVE.

Rulings / lint whitelist (grep-verified):

• yalnga 'sea turtle' added to lint LOC_OK — it ends -lnga and tripped the l+nga LOC check, but it is a lexical root (like kalnga 'uncle'), NOT a locative form.
• dakaldakal 'trocus shell' added to lint SOLID_REDUP — a lexicalized reduplication (like bulbul 'coucal'), not productive redup.
• Polysemy: yaba = eel / elder-brother; kadan = turtle-shell / kada-ny 'came'; maja = boss / maja-l chew / madja scrub — all context-disambiguated.

✅ WATCHLIST CLEARED: daga (garbage multi-sense phantom) is now 0 in all accepted rows and promoted to lint DENY_ALWAYS. Full per-sense reconciliation: 'mouth'→ngandal (b042.13, b040.9), 'tooth'→dirra (b041.27), 'end/point'→jungku (b042.40), 'shut'→nanda-l (b040.9), 'hard-chewing'→maja-nka (b041.32). Remaining DENY_NEW debt: both wanka and yumbul ✅CLEARED 2026-07-06 (wanka → -wa-nka RECIP-PURP + 1 'dry'→marral; yumbul → kuda/ngangkal by sense). Numeric-quantified DENY_NEW watchlist rows (kulur-jambul/yilbay/janka-yukil/jarrakay/bubu-jandu/jukarr/kunkul/bubu-warral/jani-warra + jubi×0) remain for future sweeps; all barred from new work by lint DENY.

batch-084 — SUBORDINATE CLAUSES (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 49

Systematised all seven subordinate-clause types (§4.4): PURPOSIVE -nkV, PRECAUTIONARY -nyji, SUCCESSIVE -nyjiku, SIMULTANEOUS/CAUSAL/RELATIVE -nya, PRIOR-EVENT wawu-…-nya-muny, HYPOTHETICAL -nya-mun-ku; plus the ⭐ERG-marked SUB -nya-mun-du (reassigns the SUB action to the MAIN A/S NP). Full detail in cheatsheet Rule 49.

Support vocabulary — grammar-EXAMPLE-attested (thin/absent in dictionary.yaml, but attested in Patz's numbered examples, a valid primary source): bajaburray tired (ex.485), wala-l enter (ex.492), durrba-l gobble (ex.486), junkalu billycan (ex.501), jinkalmu brown-snake (ex.493), dingka-l knead (ex.447). Dict-confirmed: muku back, manu throat, kabu rotten, yangka green-ant, kararr blanket, nambarr bamboo, jukijuki chicken, jabi-l kick. ⚠ muja-l = 'gather firewood' (ex.483) NOT the dict noun muja 'place'. Loans (in Patz's own examples): buliman policeman (ex.460), yarraman horse (ex.475).

Morphology note: verb+-nyV SUBORDINATE forms keep -nya/-nyu (never reduce to -n), but a MAIN-clause verbal PAST reduces to solid -n even under reduplication (daran 'fell', dunga-n-dungan 'went along') — the lint's -ny-final check correctly distinguishes them.

batch-085 — BIRDS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

~35 dict-confirmed bird species. Unlike land animals, the bird field is thick with cultural-signal species whose names encode belief: kurri-kurri stormbird (announces the wet season), kuyir bush curlew (its night cry = a death), jiway messenger night bird, burrkul spirit bird. Generic bird = buyi. Species: kurranji cassowary, diwan turkey, kurrbal native-companion, jarruka scrub-hen, kadanji black-cockatoo, karrambil king-parrot, birrbirr parrot, waja crow, dawa-dawa magpie, kulbal brolga, dabuy/milman kingfisher, kalkuy owl, bulnja frogmouth, kalin-kalin hawk, jinabiju chicken-hawk, wandi eagle, kururrungka kookaburra, bakamu/kuludu/juku-juku/karunkurr/munungkul pigeons & doves, jaka friarbird, biru-biru rainbow-bird, birmba ibis, jamarbina goose, nili-nili duck, mabal swallow. Parts: nangki wing.

⚠ Phantom-SENSE corrections (caught at authoring by glossing the intended verb against grammar first):

• ngaki-l = 'HIDE' (grammar l.3389: ngaki-l 'hide', +mani-l 'elope'), NOT 'steal' → used karrba-l 'grab'.
• dance VERB = wuri-l (grammar ex.464 warrma wuri-n-wuri-nya); warrma is the corroboree NOUN, not the verb.
• 'hard' = junkurr; jarra = 'more', not hard.
• KY has NO dedicated 'to fly' root — a bird taking off = wandi-l 'get up/rise' (l.3014/ex.407). marra-warri/ nangkibu warri are the INSECT 'fly' (nouns).
• babarr = 'older sister' (b079 kinship), also glossed 'young cassowary' in some entries — used kurranji buban to avoid the kinship homophone. No attested 'beak'/'nest' word → described around (bill=strength, nest=eggs+branch).

Attestation-source notes: diburr = 'seed' (dict) but 'egg' (grammar ex.441) — round-small-thing polysemy, serves both. wandi is a true homophone pair: NOUN 'eagle' vs VERB wandi-l 'rise'. dawa-dawa magpie is a hyphenated lexical reduplication (like biru-biru/kurri-kurri/juku-juku/nili-nili). y-final human nouns do NOT take LOC -nga. New support: dakil branch, barka nut, nganka flower, wulngku song, kankur half (wungar kankur = midday), yirrka-y call-out, baka-l scratch/dig.

batch-086 — VOICE: the -ji- intransitivizer (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 50

One suffix -ji- gives reflexive, chance/topic/agentless passive, AND antipassive; the NP frame decides the reading. Surface: NONPAST -ji-y→X-ji (/y/-deletion after /i/; lint bars X-jiy), PAST -ji-ny→X-jin (solid -n), 'keep V-ing' = REDUP X-n-X-ji(n). Chance/topic passive demotes the AGENT to potent LOC:pt (dingkar-anda, babi-nda, jalbu-ndu); an INANIMATE agent stays INST -bu. kanban 'by mistake' marks a TRANSITIVE clause (intentional act, wrong effect) — the contrast to the chance passive. Full detail in Rule 50.

Support vocabulary (verified): julngka-l rub-on/paint (ex.185), julurri-l wash, yirrba-l scratch (ex.338), narri-l step-on/poke (ex.349), yajarri-l laugh, mana-l take/bring (ex.362), bunjil widow(er) (ex.231/337), kinka-l play (ex.469), walu face, munju forehead, ngunjil charcoal, jilngarr headband, kamu mosquito, wukay (hairy) yam, dubar level/flat, mayngku mango (loan), jikan grass, jija grandchild.

⚠ Phantom-SENSE corrections (caught at authoring): makirr = 'yellow ochre', NOT 'green/new' → dropped 'green' (no clean 'green' word; new grass = jikan buban). jija = 'grandchild', not 'son' → used warru for the carriers. dabul = 'pierced nose', not 'turtle' → yalnga. ngangkal = 'ignorant', not 'face' → walu. kirraji = 'work', not 'headband' → jilngarr.

batch-087 — WEATHER, SKY & SEASONS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Full celestial/meteorological/seasonal/tidal field. Like the omen-birds of b085, the sky is cosmology, not just weather: yiril rainbow IS yarru the rainbow serpent (lives deep in the water holes; children must not point at it or the big rain comes); kija moon is the man who made the women at Roaring Meg Falls (grammar l.719); a binyu shooting star means someone has died.

Inventory — CELESTIAL: wungar sun/day, kija moon/month, dawar star, binyu shooting-star, kurrubijal morning-star, jiri sky, balbal bright/shining. RAIN: kaba rain, jabulbina thunder, balbay lightning, ngurrban cloud, jalungkarr flood, wadjal cyclone. WIND: muyar wind, kumbamu trade-wind, wurunurru whirlwind. TEMP/SEASON: wumbul hot, kiway/ngiki cold, wangariji hot season, ngurrbal fog. TIME: wunkuwingku morning, muduwaju dawn, kunarangkal middle-of-night, kunbu big-day, ngungul-ngungul dark. TIDE: balar high-tide, ngajal low-tide, yira tide. Also manjal mountain, kubu smoke.

Day/year cycles are EXPRESSED, not named: sunrise = wungar daka-l 'sun climbs', sunset = wungar dara-y 'sun falls', sun-peek = wungar jalama-l 'sun jumps out'. No dedicated wet/cold-season word → kaba-wungar 'rain-time'; country 'turning green' = jikan-ma-l 'become grassy'. kija doubles as 'month' (kija jambul-muny 'after two months', ex.280).

⚠ Phantom-SENSE / attestation: waku-l 'shine' is ABSENT → balbal (dict L885, a lint-allowed solid redup). jalama-l = 'jump', not 'peek' (the compound wungar jalama-l = sun peeks/jumps out is fine). kija dict='place' but grammar l.2509 = 'moon, month' (use the grammar sense). bulmba absent → bayan/ bubu. LOC allomorphy reinforced: single-r → -a (wungar-a, balar-a, NOT -nga), l-final → -ba (balbal-ba, Ngajal-ba), y-final → -mba (or drop on adjectives/temporals).

batch-088 — COORDINATION & CLAUSE-CHAINING (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 51

Kuku Yalanji has no 'and'; clauses/NPs are juxtaposed with co-referential S/A/O deletion. Full detail in cheatsheet Rule 51. Particle/clitic rulings established here:

• yamba / yambada / yambala = 'BUT' (a contrasting state; grammar l.3835/5072), a homophone of yamba 'house'. This retroactively confirms the heavy yambada-as-'but' usage across the dense b032-048 narrative rows.
• kari = 'but' (adversative, introduces a HINDERING event) AND the plain NEG — one particle, two jobs (ex.388).
• -baja enclitic = 'again / on / back / too' on a verb (dunga-ny-baja 'went on again'); same clitic as the nominal intensifier -baja '-very/more' (kalbay-baja 'very far').
• -da (TEMP1) = 'and then', on the past verb (wunana-ny-da 'and then rested', ex.385).
• yala 'OK, let's' (precedes a suggestion) / yalada 'and so, that's settled then' (grammar l.6292-6293) — discourse connectives. NP conjoining via COMITATIVE -ji 'with'.

Attestation notes: balbi 'hunt' IS a genuine dict headword (L912) — an earlier balbil grep missed it because the lemma is bare balbi; the 228 accepted balbi rows are sound. buwun = 'spoon' (grammar l.1092), NOT 'boat' — avoided (no reliable 'canoe/boat' word). Support verbs: nyunba-l turn-back (ex.382), baduri fishing line (ex.389), kaja-l wrap (ex.384), kulba-l pull-out (ex.384), kunba-y-mani-l finish (ex.165), yinil afraid (ex.47, takes DAT).

batch-089 — REPTILES, FROGS & INSECTS (lexical inventory, 2026-07-06)

Completes the fauna arc (b075 land-animals · b083 fish · b085 birds · b089 creeping things). ~45 species attested from dictionary.yaml + grammar.md. Like birds and weather, the field is dense with belief and food-economy.

SNAKES: jarba snake (generic) · jinkalmu brown snake / taipan (ex.217 glosses it 'taipan') · kundurr death adder · kungkun carpet snake · bindimu black snake · kabul rock python · kalkamuku green tree snake · bakay water snake. LIZARDS/GOANNA: jadi sand goanna · kalajarr scrub goanna (prized food) · bajabaja blue-tongue lizard · binanjal frill-necked lizard · bilbil-bilbil gecko · jimalili mountain lizard · bajuy lizard. CROC/TURTLE: bilngkumu crocodile · ngawiya sea turtle. FROGS: karrkurr green frog · kubu-kubu tadpole. GRUBS (food): mujurr witchetty grub · jambun/kurran grub · kinga/durra caterpillar. ANTS/BEES: munjurr green ant · jabarrangkul black ant · dabu bee · kuja small stingless bee · wunba honey · mulma hornet · jawurraji large ant bed. FLIES: kamu mosquito · marra-warri fly · diri-diri sandfly. OTHER: malal spider · biringal scorpion · birinjil centipede · jimu grasshopper · nganjamu worm. VERBS: bayka-l bite/sting · mara-warri crawl.

Two MYTH beings (grammar l.719):

• bajabaja the blue-tongue lizard — its eggs hatched in the dry Bloomfield River bed and turned into two prominent rocks in the river; blue-tongues are also said to fight and kill the taipan (ex.217 "Bajabaja-ngka jinkalmu bayka-ny-baja" 'the blue-tongue bit the taipan again').
• kurriyala the carpet snake — who died and is buried at mangkal Cedar Bay (ex.284 "made a belt from the carpet snake, kurriyala-muny").

SENSE-SPLIT ruling — kurriyala: dictionary.yaml glosses it 'grunter' (a fish), but grammar l.719/ex.284 uses it for 'carpet snake' (the myth being). Both senses are real; the everyday carpet snake was written with the unambiguous kungkun, and kurriyala reserved for the myth being — the same both-senses-are-real treatment given kija (moon/place), diburr (seed/egg), wandi (noun/verb).

Attestation guards: wanya = 'who' (animate interrogative, grammar l.2696 Table 3.10), so 'which tree' = wanyu 'what' (inanimate). kayal = 'undeveloped, unripe' (ex.167 mayngku kayal unripe mango) → used for 'raw' (witchetty grub eaten raw). No dedicated 'web/nest' root → bayan 'dwelling/constructed-thing' used for spider webs, ant nests, hornet nests (metaphorical extension of the 'camp/house' sense). Derivations exercised: yinil-mani-l 'frighten' (afraid-CAUS) and wumbul-mani-ji 'warm oneself' (warm-CAUS-REFL, stacking the b086 -ji intransitivizer on a CAUS stem).

batch-090 — CONTENT QUESTIONS & INTERROGATIVES (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 52

The full interrogative paradigm (grammar §3.6), all from proto-root *waNH-. Detail in cheatsheet Rule 52.

Inventory (grammar-primary; most have thin/no dict entries): wanya who · wanyu what · wanja/wanjabu where · wanjamuny where-from · wanjawanja when (l.2787, NO dict headword) · wanjarr(-ku) how (ex.132/133) · wanjarrinya how many (l.2790) · wanjinya/wanjaku which one (ex.134) · wanyunguy/wanjanguy what kind (-nguy, ex.135-137) · junjuy something (indefinite generic). Case-inflected forms carry meaning: wanyangka who[ERG], wanyanka for-whom, wanyanji with-whom, wanyamba whose; wanyurringku = why (ex.127b), wanyurrimbu = why-that-place (ex.127a), wanyurrinji = 'sick with what' (ex.128), wanyu-baja = 'what else'.

Attestation rulings:

• 'ask' = babaji-l (dict headword + ex.101 "Ngayu yaba-nda babaji-ny" 'I asked my elder brother'), past babajin. Used for every reported/embedded question — do NOT invent kuku-ma-l.
• 'yesterday' = yilayku (temporal headword). bengu is a PHANTOM for 'yesterday' → added to lint guard-list (avoided; never banked).
• kudamundu = 'behind' (dict + ex.111 "wukurri-ny kudamundu" 'followed from behind'), NOT 'beyond'. Avoided this batch. ⚠️ WATCHLIST: b089 row 23 used dulngku kudamundu for 'beyond the reef' — reads acceptably as 'behind the reef' so left as-is, flagged for a future sweep if a cleaner 'beyond' word is wanted.
• kada = PHANTOM for 'hill/mountain' (no dict entry) → avoided (row 43 reworded to wangkar-a 'up high').
• POLAR questions need no particle (intonation only, ex.42) → answered yuwu 'yes' / kari 'no'.
• Pronoun possessives/accusatives confirmed from the paradigm table (l.2580/2595): my ngayku / me nganya / your yunu / you yununy / his-her nyungu (ex.119) / him-her nyunguny; 2pl yurra.

Phantom-watchlist reconciliation sweep (2026-07-06, interleaved before batch-091)

Full audit of the watchlist against all accepted/revised rows. Results:

• burri ×92 ✅ CLEARED (FALSE debt — attested). burri = 'name; corroboree song' (grammar l.2095 "mala-burri 'good singer, song expert' (burri 'name, corroboree song')"; l.3421 burri-duda-l 'beat time to corroboree'; l.7176 bubu burri 'place name'). Sense-audited all 92 rows — every one uses the attested sense ('gave the baby a name', 'called his name', 'taught the names of the winds/tides/stars', 'song expert'). No edits needed; struck from watchlist. mala- 'expert' is itself a real derivational prefix (§3.6.1(iii): mala-kalka spear-expert, mala-minya good-hunter, mala-mayi good-cook).
• kalbal ×30 ✅ CLEARED (FALSE debt — attested). kalbal = 'remedy, medicine' (dict headword). All 30 rows use it correctly ('boiled the remedy', 'made a remedy from bark', 'the country's remedy', 'plant medicines'). Struck from watchlist. (Note: distinct from the derivational/other kalbal; the dict gloss 'remedy' governs.)
• jani-warra ×1 ✅ CLEARED (swept). #2428: jani-warra unattested (jani='well cooked' + warra= the -(w)arra 'inhabitants of' suffix, l.2037) coined for 'apart'; kima also misused ('kima'='soft', l.1236). Revised "kima jani-warra-manin" → attested ngundu-kari-manin (near[ngundu]-NEG-CAUS 'kept not-near/apart'); the avoidance sense stays on the attested jibarr-jibarr already in the row. I3-safe (revisions row); residue 0.

⚠️ DEFERRED — the dense-cluster sweep (scoped, not yet done). The genuine remaining watchlist phantoms — janka-yukil ×10 ('skill'), yilbay ×9 (drifting: 'bright'/'useless'/'mere'/'beautiful'), jarrakay ×8 ('carrier/craft'), bubu-jandu ×6 ('dry gully') — are concentrated in ~31 deeply-compromised philosophical wisdom rows (batches b021-024 ≈ #2226-2340 and b043-047 ≈ #2250-2378), authored before the phantom discipline matured. These rows ALSO carry broader unverified vocabulary that pervades them: yukil (dict gloss corrupted to boolean 'True' — real sense undocumented; used everywhere as 'good/proper/tool'), murni (NONE; used as 'make/prepare'), bikirr (NONE; used as 'shame'), and kima-as-'avoidance'. Because these interlock (multiple phantoms per 100-word row) and several have NO clean attested mapping, this needs a dedicated full-rewrite sweep (a batch-sized effort of its own), NOT inter-batch token-patching — patching one phantom would leave Frankenstein rows still carrying the others. Scoped as a future work item. jubi remains ×0 (DENY_NEW, never entered).

batch-091 — FIRE, TOOLS, WEAPONS & ARTEFACTS (material culture, 2026-07-06)

The made objects of daily life — the human counterpart to the natural-world lexical batches. ~45 artefact/tool terms.

FIRE: baya fire · jimal fire stick · jakalamba-l start a fire · dama-murni-l twirl a fire drill · kubu smoke · ngunjil charcoal · jidi torch. TRAP: bajar names Moreton Bay ash / white gum tree, not residue ash. SPEARS (a whole taxonomy): kalka fishing spear · dara bamboo spear-stick · biyul spear head/point · jinil barb · kurajan turtle spear point · murrangkal fighting spear · kukuni big spear; dama-l spear (v), mumal throw a spear. WOOMERA/BOOMERANG/SHIELD/CLUB: balur spear-thrower/woomera · wangal boomerang · kunjuri shield · mirru club · jarrngkurr weapon. AXE/ KNIFE: warrbi axe · naybu knife. BAGS/CORD/NET/HOOK: balji bag · ngunyin dilly bag · karra rope/ string · makarr fish net · badur hook. SHELTER/BEDDING: wurun humpy · bira windbreak · bilangkurr blanket. OCHRE/PAINT/ADORN: murbuy red ochre · makirr yellow ochre · ngunjil charcoal(black) · julngka-l paint/rub on · jilngarr headband · wayarri hair belt. Cultural crossovers: ochre is the paint of the warrma (dance/corroboree); the wangal boomerang doubles as a rhythm instrument — two clapped to burri-duda-l 'beat time to the song' (l.3421).

Sense-traps caught (grepped at authoring): jaba = 'stick' NOT 'play' · bangkarr = 'body' NOT 'tool' (KY has no generic 'tool'; jarrngkurr 'weapon' is the nearest) · walu = 'face/forehead' NOT 'head' · kaban = 'paper' NOT 'hair' · kangkal = 'child' NOT 'chest'. No reliable 'canoe' word — dict marrakan and wada both resolve to 'tree' at the headword (the harvest's 'dugout canoe' gloss is a second, ambiguous sense), so the canoe/paddle sub-theme was dropped rather than coin. murni/nyurrba/kambar/mula unverified → avoided. One post-bank fix: removed bare warral ('curved', a phantom swept earlier this session — only the reduplicated warral-warral 'round' is legal) from row 19.

batch-092 — NEGATION, PROHIBITION & PRIVATIVES (construction, 2026-07-06) — see cheatsheet Rule 53

Four formally distinct "not/without/don't" devices (grammar §3.9.2/§3.8.4.1/§3.2.3.4). Detail in cheatsheet Rule 53.

Verb-cluster wins (grammar l.2932 — the 'ear' compounds): milka-jana-y = 'listen' (ear-stand) · milka-wula-y = 'forget' (ear-die) · milka-bu bayka-l = 'think' (bite-with-ear) · hearing = milka-bu nyaji-l or plain nyaji-l 'perceive' (ex.457 glosses nyaji-ny as 'hear-PAST'). Other verified: dukul-wuri = 'angry' (L6387) · wukurri-l = 'follow' (l.3092) · kaka = 'sore' · ngali = 'we two' (1du) · yijarri-l = 'put' (ex.153) · kanga-l = 'chase' (ex.149) · kamu = 'alcohol/grog' as well as 'mosquito' (ex.90 kamu-baka 'drunkard').

⚠️ CORRECTION — ngara-l is NOT 'hear'. ngara-l = 'set up (camp), spread (a sheet)' (ex.234 "bayan ngara-ny" 'set up camp'; ex.416 "kararr ngara-l" 'spread a sheet'). The dense b021-024 wisdom rows repeatedly use ngara-l for 'hear/listen/read' (e.g. "buyi ngaran" 'listened to birds', "minya ngaran" 'read the animals') — this is added to the deferred dense-cluster sweep as a new item (fix → milka-jana-y / nyaji-l).

Other sense-traps caught (avoided this batch): nyaka = 'command' NOT 'drink' (drink = nuka-l 'consume') · kuli standalone = NONE (but kuliji = 'savage' is a real lexeme, so b089's kuli-ji 'savage bees' is sound) · wawu = 'want' (also dict 'soul') · kada/yambakari phantoms → avoided (kada='up-high' via wangkar; 'nothing/no meat' via privative minya-kari).

IMPERATIVE paradigm now explicit (retro-validates all prior IMP use): -l disyllabic → ∅ (kanga, mani, bunda, nuka, bawa, daji, nanda) · -y verbs → -y (dunga-y, kada-y) · 3+ syllables → -ka (yijarri-ka, julurri-ji-ka). 1du/1pl + IMP = hortative 'let's'. IRREALIS -nyaku 'should (have)'.

batch-093 — LANDSCAPE, COUNTRY & DIRECTIONS (bubu) (lexical, 2026-07-06)

The foundational spatial vocabulary — the ground on which every other batch stands. ~40 terms. Headline: bubu = 'ground' AND 'country' AND 'place' in one word ("this country is our mother, she gives us everything", row 1).

COUNTRY/GROUND: bubu · balay ground. LANDFORMS: manjal mountain · kangku valley · jalkar high bank · jalkaraburr mountain peak · kulji rock/pebbles · jalngarr flat rock · jinali smooth rock · julbarr-warri slippery rock · jundi pumice. WATER: bana water · wawubaja river/creek · jalun sea · daburri swamp · jirka spring/soak · janku waterhole · dajali deep water · balar high tide (bana bada low tide) · dulngku reef. VEG ZONES: madja scrub/rainforest · duduy bush · jamar newly cleared scrub · julbin scrub tree · jikan grass. SPATIAL: wangkar up · bada down · bada-bada below · dukurr inside/deep · dindarra middle · jarra-jarra high/steep · kala-kalbay far away · yaluy here · yinyay there. SKY: jiri · jina track/foot.

⭐ The CARDINAL/DIRECTION system is authentically Aboriginal, NOT an English compass. There is no clean 'east'/'west' — orientation runs up-inland vs down-seaward. kungkarr = 'north', naka = 'south', jibarr = 'inland/hinterland' combine with wangkar 'up' / bada 'down' to place everything relative to the sea and the mountains (row 33: "we must go DOWN toward the sea, not UP into the high inland country"). A translation model must learn that KY 'up' (wangkar) frequently means inland/upstream, not merely elevation, and 'down' (bada) means seaward/downstream. Guard: baral = 'feeling' (dict) NOT 'road' → 'track/path' is jina (also 'foot'). Avoided phantoms/unverified: kada (hill), bimbi (new), bikul (salt), jangan (mouth), jangka (crossing), juru (reach), 'island' (no clean word → jukar bubu buban 'small sandy grounds').

batch-094 — POSSESSION & THE GENITIVE (construction, 2026-07-06)

Possessive-system rulings + body-part/kin inventory anchored (see cheatsheet Rule 54 for the full construction).

BODY PARTS (inalienable possession): mara hand · jina foot/leg · milka ear · walu face · dukul head · miyil eye · mungka hair · ngandal mouth · dirra tooth · jibar stomach/belly (NOT jiba, which is 'liver'). KIN: ngamu mother · nganjan father · kami grandfather/grandparent (FF/MM) · babi grandmother · yaba elder brother (polysemous with dict 'eel', but grammar ex.101/119 fix 'elder brother') · dunyu husband · manyarr wife · jija grandchild.

⚠️ PHANTOM caught: ngamun — I coined it for 'back/shoulder'; it is unattested (0 in grammar; not a headword). Real forms: shoulder = L2750, back = L20236, shoulder-blade = L7665. Row 19 was reworded (dropped the body part) rather than whitelisted — phantom-lexeme discipline working as intended (a phonotactically legal invented body-part is invisible to a human eye but the lint + grep-check caught it).

⚠️ WATCHLIST — plural pronoun possessives (defer/verify): singular POSS ngayku/yunu/nyungu are solid, but the plural possessive forms are OCR-ambiguous in the pronoun table (l.2582 shows a -nga-type column: ngananga 1pl, ngalinga 1du, yurranga 2pl, nganjinanga 1pl.exc — vs the -mba I used loosely). b093 used ngana-mba for 'our' (rows 1/40/50). This is possibly wrong (should be ngananga or the noun-POSS pattern). Flagged for a future reconciliation sweep; batch-094 AVOIDED all plural pronoun possessives (used ngayku/singular or noun--mu instead). Do NOT propagate ngana-mba further until the table is re-read against a clean scan.

batch-095 — PLANTS, TREES & TIMBER (lexical, 2026-07-06); + FOUR sense-drift watchlist entries

Completes the environmental quartet (b087 weather · b089 reptiles/insects · b093 landscape · b095 flora). Avg 9.26 w/row — NEW corpus high.

THE TREE + PARTS: juku tree/wood/stick/timber (generic) · birra leaf / bajarr leaves · bangkan root · dakil branch / dakil-dakil branches · warrur/dumbul bark (warrur dukurr inner bark) · buyku paperbark · nganka flower · mawar/kalal vine · diburr seed/nut · dingal base of tree · dimbirr hollow trunk. SPECIES (dict-attested): baway black bean · baril-baril Moreton Bay fig · bijin tea tree · bilar candle nut · dakumbar water gum · dalban oak · dilbal hickory · banday cherry-like · babajaga blood wood. CULTURE: black-bean nut soaked long in the creek to leach the poison (grammar l.671); paperbark for beds & meat-wrapping; fig inner-bark blankets; lawyer-cane baskets; medicine bark. Trees STAND (janay) — NOT wandi-l ('get up/rise', of a person).

VERB corrections: daya = 'give' (suppletive IMP of daji-l, grammar l.3049/3070) — NOT 'chop'; chop = nyanda-l, cut = yaka-l. jubaji-l/nyalbu-l (cook/roast) = PHANTOM — no single cook verb; frame via baya-ba 'on the fire' / ngunjil-ba 'on the coals' / nuka-l 'eat'. New nouns: yawa possum, wunba honey, ngunjil charcoal.

⚠️⚠️ FOUR SENSE-DRIFTS caught this batch — NOT propagated; WATCHLIST for a reconciliation sweep

These are phonotactically legal / plausibly-glossed, so the mechanical lint is blind to them — only the grep-every-word discipline catches them. batch-095 used the CORRECT words throughout (kulbul/jiba-wulay/kulngkul/ngunjil). The ~50 rows of existing accepted debt need a dedicated I3-safe reconciliation sweep (like the y-final LOC and bina→birra sweeps) — added alongside the deferred dense-cluster b021-024/b043-047 sweep. kadal also added to the bank-time pre-scan phantom tuple so it can't slip into future batches.

RECONCILIATION SWEEP (post-batch-095, 2026-07-06): kadal='ripe' RESOLVED + kada-l='come' misconjugation found

Interleaved reconciliation sweep of the kadal debt flagged at batch-095. The batch-095 estimate of "~10 rows of kadal='ripe' debt" was WRONG — a per-row inspection (never a blind global replace!) showed that surface kadal is almost always the verb kada-l 'come' (elder solid form), correctly segmented as kada-l in the analysis field — NOT the phantom adjective 'ripe'. A blind kadal→kulbul replace would have corrupted 8+ correct 'come' rows into 'ripe'. This is the "never a blind global replace" rule earning its place.

✅ kadal='ripe' — FULLY RESOLVED (4 rows, I3-safe → kulbul): the true ripe-phantom debt was only 4 rows (b091.33, b092.1, b094.3, b094.12), now revised to kulbul (the real 'ripe', dict L15153 — already used correctly as kulbul-ma-l 'ripen' in b081). The two paired 'sweet ripe' rows also got jiba→jiba-wulay ('sweet', not 'liver'). 0 kadal='ripe' rows remain.

⚠️ NEW WATCHLIST ITEM — kada-l='come' is a MISCONJUGATION. 'come' is a y-conjugation verb (grammar: karray/ kaday NONPAST, kada-ny PAST; exx.49/66/87/99) — so surface kadal (=kada-l, with the l-conjugation marker) is wrong; NONPAST 'come' should be kaday (kada-y). ~40 accepted rows carry this, and they are ALL in the dense philosophical/proverb cluster (b039–048, b057–078) — the same region already flagged for the deferred full-rewrite sweep (with yukil/yilbay/jarrakay/ngara-l). So the come-conjugation fix is folded into that dense-cluster sweep. 2 clean outliers fixed now (b080.38, b081.18 → kaday).

Lint denylist note: kadal is NOT yet added to lint DENY_ALWAYS (would go RED on the ~40 remaining come-misconjugation rows). It stays in the bank-time pre-scan phantom tuple (catches new authoring). Once the dense-cluster come-sweep converts those ~40 kadal→kaday, kadal can be promoted to DENY_ALWAYS.

Updated sense-drift watchlist status

batch-096 — COMPARISON, DEGREE & SIMILARITY (construction, 2026-07-06)

Degree/comparison/similative rulings (full construction in cheatsheet Rule 55). Avg 9.32 w/row — new corpus high.

Degree morphemes: jarra- (DEG1 prefix 'rather/more'; comparative + DAT standard) · -baja-ku (DEG2 suffix 'very', obligatory -ku; inflection slots between -baja- and -ku) · bajaku (superlative 'most'). Similative: yala '(be) like/same' (+ walu 'face' for appearance) · walu-yindu 'different' (face-other) · yala-karrajikur 'alike' · yindu 'other'. New grammar-attested adjectives: dakuy 'hungry' (ex.82) · kingkin 'cute' (ex.83) · manjarr 'lazy' · minday 'tame'. New verbs: jiba-badi-y 'be sorry/pity' (liver-cry, ex.85; surface drops final y after i → jiba-badi) · dama-l 'throw, spear'. wawu jirray 'love much' (jirray 'lots', ex.122).

⚠️ Guard: kaki = 'if' (a conditional particle) — NOT 'long ago'. 'long ago' = kalbay-muny. (Possible existing drift of kaki-as-'long ago' — add to watch if it recurs; batch-096 used kalbay-muny correctly.)

Note on bare -baja as adjectival 'very': the corpus has used ADJ-baja widely (e.g. jinbal-baja) for 'very ADJ'; grammar §3.2.3.8 says adjectival 'very' obligatorily takes the emphatic -ku → -baja-ku. The bare -baja is the incomplete form (though -baja alone is legitimate as 'too/again' and bajaku separate = superlative). NOT swept (pervasive, low-severity, and baja/bajaku have legitimate standalone uses) — flagged for awareness; batch-096 modelled the full -baja-ku throughout.

batch-097 — THE HUMAN BODY (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Comprehensive body inventory (~35 terms), consolidating the scattered b077/b094 parts. Avg 9.76 w/row — new corpus high.

HEAD/FACE: dukul head · mungka hair · miyil eye · milka ear · ngandal mouth · dirra tooth · nyabil tongue · bari chin · kangkul cheek · munju forehead · bilirr eyebrow · walu face. NECK/TRUNK: jakay neck · manu throat · binda shoulder · damu chest · bibi breast · muku back · jibar belly · wurra navel · mirrimar rib · bangkarr body. LIMBS: wakuy arm · mara hand · jinbar wrist · birri fingernail · jina foot · jandal leg · waba thigh · durru toe · wulu ankle. INSIDE/SUBSTANCES: bajibay bone · jiba liver · wubul heart · julbi guts · mula blood · jila-warri sweat · nyumba saliva · wandul fat.

⚠️ HOMOPHONE: wubul = 'heart' (L27478) AND 'many/all' (the ubiquitous quantifier). Reserve wubul='heart' for unambiguous contexts (b097 rows 42/50, disambiguated by surrounding body/emotion words). Do not use it for 'heart' next to a wubul='all' in the same clause.

GAPS (no clean single word in the available data — circumlocuted, never coined): nose, finger (→ mara 'hand' / birri 'fingernail'), knee, skin, beard, marrow, shell. dabul = 'pierced nose' (not generic nose); birri = 'fingernail'. New verbs: bayka-l bite, kuni-l hit/strike, nanda-l cover/press, mukul-ma-l grow old (past surface mukul-ma-n).

batch-098 — NUMBER & QUANTIFICATION (construction, 2026-07-06)

Number-system rulings (full construction in cheatsheet Rule 56). Restricted numeral system 1-2-3-many.

Numerals/quantifiers: nyubun 1 · jambul 2 · kulur 3 · wubul/jirray many · narmba 'all' · nyubun-nyubun 'each' (distributive). Plural: reduplication (juku-juku) · kinship -karra (kin-only) · dual -bulal (pair that belongs together, ≠ jambul 'just two') · pronoun bula '3du'.

⭐ CORRECTION to b095: waju-l = 'cook, burn' (dictionary + grammar ex.65 waju-ny 'burnt'). This IS the cook verb b095 wrongly recorded as missing — jubaji-l/nyalbu-l were phantoms, but waju-l is real. So 'roast the meat' = minya waju-l, not a periphrasis. (Update the b095 note accordingly.)

New/verified: narmba 'all' · bulkiji 'pipi' (small mussel, ex.61) · duna 'wet' (ex.60) · julbarr 'slippery' · yabuju 'younger brother' · jamba 'hillside' · bula '3du' · maral 'young girl'.

⚠️ Source conflicts (used the safe form): (1) baral = 'feeling' (dict) BUT grammar ex.60 uses baral-baral for 'roads/paths' — a genuine dict/grammar conflict; rendered 'path' as jina-jina to stay safe. (2) kamu = 'mosquito' (dict) AND 'grog/alcohol' (grammar kamu-baka 'drunkard') — a homophone; and the grammar's plural example kumu-kumu 'mosquitoes' is a vowel variant of kamu. To avoid ambiguity the reduplication example used jarba-jarba 'snakes' instead of mosquitoes.

Lint improvement: the rhotic-LOC check ([^r]rba$) now also clears reduplicated whitelisted roots by testing the last hyphen-segment against RB_OK — so jarba-jarba 'snakes' no longer false-flags (was: only bare jarba in RB_OK). Generalises to any reduplication of an RB_OK lexeme.

batch-099 — EMOTIONS & MENTAL STATES (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Full affective/cognitive inventory (grammar in cheatsheet Rule 57). KY locates emotion in the body: jiba liver (feeling), dukul head / jakay neck (anger), walu face (sadness), milka ear (cognition), wawu breath (desire/ fatigue). Emotion stimulus = DATIVE (ex.47/52/58/71).

Affective lexemes (all dict/grammar attested): wawu want (+DAT) · wawu-mini happy · jiba-ngulkurr-ma-l glad · jiba-badi-y sad (liver-cry, l.1506) · badi cry · walu-jirrbu-jirrbu sad · wawu-wula-y exhausted (breath-die, l.1506) · baja-burray tired · yinil afraid (+DAT) · yini-yini / jiba-yararri frightened · yararri shiver · dukul-wuri angry · kuli anger(N) · kuli-ma-l get angry / kuli-mani-l make angry · murru-kaday ashamed · ngujan jealous · wawu-buyun worried · wawu-kari…bajaku hate · yajarri-l laugh · binal know(+DAT) · binalku remember · milka-wulay forget (ear-die) · milka-bu bayka-l think (bite-with-ear) · manubaja-bunga-l believe.

⭐ Mental-state NOUNS (grammar l.1476): warngku 'sleep', kaka 'pain', kuli 'anger', kuru 'love/lust' — these are nouns, not verbs. SLEEP = warngku wuna-l (sleep + lie-down; ex.37 wunanany 'slept').

New/verified: dubu spirit/ghost (ex.65) · bulki cattle/beef/bullock (l.1724 bulki-nda, l.2133 bulki-ka) · madja scrub · dajali deep water · mara-daji-l help (hand-give) · miyil-bana tears (transparent eye-water) · milka-kari deaf (ear-PRIV, parallel to attested miyil-kari blind) · wumbul hot/warm.

⚠️ Guards: milkak 'lightning' is UNATTESTED → avoided (used 'big rain in the black night' instead). wunga-l 'sleep' is UNATTESTED → sleep is warngku wuna-l. HOMOPHONE: kaka = 'pain' (noun, l.1476) AND 'up/above' (b093) — context disambiguates. daya (not daji-y) is the suppletive IMPERATIVE of daji-l 'give' (l.3049/3070).

RECONCILIATION SWEEP (2026-07-06, between b099/b100) — jiba-as-sweet RESOLVED

Interleaved watchlist sweep. Survey of accepted-row token counts cleared several false alarms and fixed one real drift:

• FALSE ALARMS (verified legitimate, NOT debt): yukil (221) = 'true/truth' (dict adjective "true (nyungkul)"; the 'True' gloss is the English word truth, not a boolean) — the whole truth-vs-lie cluster is correct. murni (101) = murni-l 'stir/twist' (grammar l.920/3545). niji (22) = all 'now/already' (correct sense; the "niji-as-heavy" debt is ZERO). burri (74) = 'name' (b088, resolved). kalbal = 'remedy' (real). kunkun (3) = mostly 'periwinkle' (correct). Phantoms janyji/kunya/jubi/jinbi/milkan/wanka/yumbul = 0 (cleared).
• ✅ FIXED — jiba-as-sweet drift (7 rows, I3-safe revisions): ids 4491/4525/4532/4572/4597/4626/4723 (b88–b93) used bare jiba to mean 'sweet' → corrected to jiba-wulay 'sweet' (dict/b095; bare jiba='liver' L8776). Note wunba = 'honey' (real word) was already correct in those rows — only the 'sweet' modifier had drifted. English unchanged (already said 'sweet'). Lint GREEN over 5047.
• STILL DEFERRED (in the dense-cluster full-rewrite): jiba-yajin 'full belly/satisfied' rows (b41–b44 — a jiba/jibar or liver-idiom question, entangled with the philosophical cluster's other issues) and kunkun='neck/frill' (id3825, b75) both sit inside the deferred b039–078 dense cluster; left for that sweep, not touched piecemeal.

batch-100 — VERBAL ASPECT & REDUPLICATION (construction, 2026-07-06)

Full aspect system in cheatsheet Rule 58. KY carries aspect by verb reduplication (ongoing/repeated/habitual + intensity, l.3581); no tense-based progressive.

Confirmed aspect forms: six fixed partial-redups (l.1238) banbadiy keep-cry · janjanay keep-stand · kankaday keep-come · wanarriy keep-run · bundanday keep-sit/stay · wunanay keep-lie/sleep. l-conj = full -l redup (nyaji-l-nyaji-l examine, waju-l-waju-l keep-cook, kuji-l-kuji-l keep-look-after). HABITUAL: nuka-l-nuka-ny 'used to eat' (ex.203) + -nyV nuka-nya 'always eats' (ex.68). EXCESSIVE = bare verb repeated (daran daran daran).

New/verified: kuji-l 'look after, keep, mind' (grammar ex.100 kuji-l-kuji-l, ex.116; NOT 'wait') · ngangkin 'echidna/porcupine' (ex.203, l.1614) · jururr(jururr) 'repeatedly, one after another' (l.3709) · murni-l 'stir/twist/grind' (l.920/3545).

⚠️ Guards (unattested → avoided): buwa-l 'come out', dumbu 'behind', yabarr 'finally', dumbarri-l 'break' are all UNATTESTED and were reworded around (e.g. 'came out' → kadan 'came'). kija = 'place', not 'crab'. The warri homophone (run-verb vs rock-noun) was sidestepped with kulji 'stone' in the running-water row.

batch-101 — SPEECH, LANGUAGE & SOUND (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Communication inventory (grammar in cheatsheet Rule 59). Two grammar findings: babaji-l 'ask' takes person=LOC

• topic=DAT (ex.77/101); nyaji-l = 'hear/perceive' as well as 'see' (ex.109) — no separate hearing verb.

Speech verbs: balka-l tell/talk/say · yalama-l say/do (l.2976) · babaji-l ask · yirrka-l shout/call · wulngku badi sing (song-cry) · jurri-l lie · murru-kanga-l scold · yayngkar whisper · kuwimbur yirrka-l whistle · yajarri-l laugh · badi cry.

⭐ kuku is highly polysemous: word / language / news / story / law — one noun, context-disambiguated. ⭐ nyaji-l = see AND hear (listen/hear/be-heard all = nyaji-l).

Nouns/adj: wulngku/yukurr song · nyurra 'noise' (of people shouting/laughing, ex.74) · manubaja truth · jurril/warmbiji lie (warmbiji-bama liar) · kuwimbur whistle · janka/wunbu quiet · mala-X 'expert at X' (ex.75/77).

⚠️ Guard: yimbal = 'come too close', NOT 'message' (an earlier gloss-line mis-hit) → avoided. buwa-l/dumbu/ yabarr/dumbarri-l/jindalba remain unattested → avoided.

Lint improvement: the EN capital/punctuation check now strips a leading quotation mark before the capital test, so direct-speech openers ('Come here and sit down,' the old woman said…) no longer false-flag.

batch-102 — SPATIAL CASES & DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM (construction, 2026-07-06)

Full spatial system in cheatsheet Rule 60. KY uses absolute up-inland/down-seaward + north (no E/W, no 'south').

Directional inventory: wangkar up/upriver/inland · bada down/downriver/seaward · wangkar-wangkar above · bada-bada below · kungkarr north · jibarr hinterland · jalun sea · maku towards · kudamundu behind · ngundu this-side/near · karangkal alongside · ngalkal outside/open · kana/dukurr inside · naka-naka across · yala here · yinyay there. Local cases: LOC -nga/-ba/-a, ABL -muny 'from', PERL -burr 'along/through', ABESS -mundu 'away from/from a distance' (ex.109), DAT/ALL -ka. ⭐ -warra 'inhabitants of' (l.641); yirmbal 'story place' (l.641).

✅ RECONCILIATION SWEEP (interleaved, kaka-as-'up'): kaka = 'sore, achey; pain' (adj/noun, dict + l.1476), NOT 'up' — 4 recent rows (b99/b100: ids 5017/5047/5050/5081) drifted kaka→'up' and were swept I3-safe to wangkar 'up, upriver'. kaka='sore/pain' remains correct and dominant (29 rows). id1657 already used wangkar='up' correctly.

⚠️ New watchlist items: (1) jirakal = 'new' per dict, but has been used across the corpus as 'flat' (bubu jirakal 'flat ground') — a possible drift to check in a future sweep. (2) y-final LOC is -mba, but the corpus carries a mix of loose -ba forms (yalbay-ba 24 / yalbay-mba 20; kalbay-ba 55 / kalbay-mba 24) — a standardization sweep candidate. Guards: mali = 'bat' NOT 'hollow'; kinka-l/wandi-l unattested (climb = wangkar dunga-l 'go up'); no 'south' word.

batch-103 — MOVEMENT & POSTURE VERBS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Full motion/posture inventory in cheatsheet Rule 61. Verified verbs (dict + grammar l.2932/2973/3008–3018/ex.112): dunga-l go · kada-y come · nyunba-y turn back/return · jilba-l walk · warri run · daka-l climb/rise (wungar dakal 'sunrise') · jalama-l jump (source=ABL, ex.112) · janji-l swim/bathe (l.3010) · marra-warri fly · mara-warri crawl (hand-run) · dara-l fall · bunda-l sit · janay stand · wuna-l lie · wandi-l get up/wake/come out (l.3014) · wundi-l carry/bring · wukurri-l follow · kanga-l chase · jurrki-l turn · PATH-verbs yimba-l go straight through / warrki-l turn off at crossroads (l.3015) / barrma-l accompany a short distance.

✅ CORRECTION — wandi-l un-guarded: wandi-l = 'get up, wake up, come out' is a REAL verb (dict + grammar l.3014); it was wrongly listed in batch-102's phantom guard and is now removed from the guard. Its imperative surface = wandi (the IMP wandi-y → -iy drops y after i, elder rule). Climb = daka-l (not the b102 stopgap wangkar dunga-l).

MORPH reaffirmed + lint hardened: bubu 'ground' LOC = bubu-ngu (u→-ngu, grammar l.7173; NOT bubu-nga — removed from the bank whitelist). y-final LOC = -mba (yalbay-mba). The pre-bank scan was hardened to catch y-final -nga (it previously only caught y-final -ba). Guards: kuwu 'egg' unattested → avoided; jaba='play' (not stick) → juku; jarra=DEG1 (not daughter) → kangkal jalbu; kuyburr 'eagle' uncertain → buyi yalbay; no 'smoke'/'south' word.

batch-104 — COMITATIVE / PRIVATIVE / ABESSIVE (construction, 2026-07-06)

Full three-way system in cheatsheet Rule 62. COMIT -ji/-jirr 'having/with' · PRIV -kari 'without/-less' · ABESS -mundu 'from a fixed vantage'. Verified support words: nganka flower, bajibay bone, kiru brains, mani money (ex.55), junkurr strength, wawu soul, wabarr shade, maral girl, kambi 'clothes' (ex.59 sense — dict headword kambi='flying fox' is a homophone), kuni-l hit, dama-l spear (l.3238), kalka spear-noun.

⚠️ MAJOR CORRECTION — -mundu is ABESSIVE, NOT 'without'/'toward': grammar l.1550 defines the abessive as "a locational source, but one which is not left behind by the actor, i.e. a place from which an action is performed." So -mundu = 'from (a fixed vantage)', distinct from ABLATIVE -muny 'from (motion away)'. The OLD mega-cheatsheet had TWO errors now fixed inline + superseded by Rule 62: (a) Rule 35 claimed 'without,lacking' = ABESS -mundu (ONLY this) with milka-mundu 'without attention' — WRONG; 'without' = PRIVATIVE -kari (milka-kari 'deaf', ex.54). (b) an earlier line claimed Directional -mundu = 'toward/-ward' (wangkar-mundu 'upward') — WRONG; toward = DAT -ka/maku. Both spots edited to point at Rule 62.

⚠️ WATCHLIST (future dedicated audit): ~180 accepted rows use -mundu. Most are correct ABESSIVE ('acting from', e.g. row 9 bayan-mundu 'shouting from the house'), but some early rows may use -mundu as 'without' or 'toward' (propagating the old error). Needs its own reconciliation sweep — too many to eyeball in one interleave.

✅ SWEEP executed (interleaved): id5195 (b102.48) yirmbal buyun-kari glossed 'sacred' — WRONG: buyun-kari = 'without-bad' (PRIV), the OPPOSITE of the intended 'dangerous/forbidden'. Swept I3-safe → yirmbal buyun bajaku 'a very bad/dangerous story-place'. (id2488, another buyun-kari inside an early dense micro-narrative, deferred to the dense-cluster sweep.)

GUARDS: jarramali='thunder' (wind = muyar); dakwuy 'hungry' (NOT dakuy); mil/murni-l/bajal avoided (bajal='bower bird', not spear — hit=kuni-l, spear=dama-l).

batch-105 — LAND MAMMALS & GAME ANIMALS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Full inventory in cheatsheet Rule 63. Fills the gap left by sea-creatures (b083), birds (b085), reptiles/insects (b089). Verified: mayarriji kangaroo, kadar/darrba/jumar wallaby, julmbanu grey kangaroo (ex.267), jarrabina/murral tree-kangaroo, jayju kangaroo-rat, yawa possum, ngangkin echidna/porcupine (ex.203), kulngu/ngumbi bandicoot, murramu dingo, jungarr/waykal native-cat, kukur rat, mali bat, kambi flying-fox. Hunting: balbi hunt, kuni-l hit/kill, dama-l spear, nguymal thoroughly, maja boss.

⭐ MAJOR RECONCILIATION — mayarriji = 'kangaroo', NOT 'wallaby': the dict glosses mayarriji='kangaroo' and kadar='wallaby' (grammar ex.192 kadar kuni-ny nguymal, ex.203 minya kadar, ex.225 kadar warri-y). I had used mayarriji='wallaby' in 35 accepted rows (out of 66; the other 31 correctly said 'kangaroo'). Swept I3-safe: because the KY word genuinely means 'kangaroo' and the Kuku was morphologically correct, the fix was EN 'wallaby'→'kangaroo' in those 35 rows (changing KY mayarriji→kadar was rejected — kadar is r-final and needs different case allomorphs than i-final mayarriji, so a bulk KY replace would corrupt suffixes). id3842 was already correct (mayarriji darrba yawa = kangaroo/wallaby/possum). Going forward: mayarriji=kangaroo, kadar=wallaby.

MORPH: the habitual reduplicated X-l-X-ny obeys elder -ny→-n: kuku surface nuka-l-nuka-n, analysis (Patz) nuka-l-nuka-ny (ex.203). GUARDS: dilba/jaral/wawurr/nyanyji/munyi unattested (claw = mara 'hand'); rainforest rendered madja junkurr 'thick scrub' (maja='boss' / majaji='with rainforest' l.643 is a homophone — avoided); ashes/coals = ngunjil 'charcoal' (nulu='ashes').

batch-106 — CASE & TRANSITIVITY / THE ERGATIVE SYSTEM (construction, 2026-07-06)

The backbone of the language, in cheatsheet Rule 64. ⭐ Split-ergative: NOUNS ergative-absolutive, PRONOUNS nominative-accusative. Noun A = ERG (dingkar-angka); noun S/O = ABS (dingkar); pronoun A/S = NOM (ngayu, no ergative); pronoun O = ACC (nganya). Ergative POTENT set (:pt, animate) -ngkV/-VngkV vs NEUTRAL set (= INST) -bu/-dV. INST = neutral ergative (kalka-bu 'with a spear'). Pronoun paradigm (Table 3.6): 1sg ngayu/nganya/ngayku, 2sg yundu/yunu, 3sg nyulu/nyungu, 1du ngali, 3du bula, 1pl.inc ngana, 2pl yurra, 3pl jana. Recipient of give/tell = LOC/DAT.

No new debt — a check of consonant-final INST confirmed junkurr-bu/nyubun-bu are legitimate (grammar shows -bu/-dV in FREE VARIATION after consonants: jalun-bu/jalun-du, mun-bu/mun-du, wun-bu/wun-du, wujurr-bu, kulbul-bu). GUARDS: dilba (tooth) unattested → claw = mara; CAUS past surfaces -mani-n (kuku) / -mani-ny (analysis).

✅ SWEEP executed + -mundu WATCHLIST CLEARED: bounded audit of all 195 accepted -mundu rows found only 6 candidate mis-glosses, and 5 are in the already-deferred dense-cluster (id2151 batch-042 run-on; id2433/2540/2587/2594 the "Mukulungku dingkarangka" micro-narratives). The one standalone error — id4943 (batch-097) bana kari-mundu 'without water' — was swept I3-safe to the PRIVATIVE bana-kari (Rule 62). So the b104 "~180 -mundu rows need audit" concern is resolved: the corpus uses -mundu correctly as ABESSIVE almost everywhere; only dense-cluster rows remain (deferred to that sweep).

batch-107 — MATERIAL CULTURE / TOOLS, WEAPONS & ARTIFACTS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

A clean, previously-uncovered domain, now cheatsheet Rule 65. Weapons kalka/dajal/jindal spear, balur spear-thrower, biyul spear-head, wangal boomerang, mirru club, kunjuri shield. Containers ngunyin/yinkar/ balji dilly-bag, kaku lawyer-cane, karra/ngurran rope, makarr fish-net. Cutting/digging/fire warrbi/ kulbanmuku axe, naybu knife (English loan), juwal digging-stick, jidi firestick, kulji stone. New verb attestations: kaja-l 'tie/wrap' (l.5037), bunga-l 'make'; bonus babi 'grandmother' (FM, ex.629).

PHANTOM/HOMOPHONE RULINGS (2 traps caught):

• ⚠️ wulman = 'spear' is a HOMOPHONE of wulman 'old man/grey' (which the corpus uses heavily). → the spear words are kalka/dajal/jindal ONLY; never wulman for 'spear'.
• ⚠️ jarruny 'sharp' is UNATTESTED — I flagged it in my own authoring notes yet it slipped into one row (kulji jarruny 'sharp stone'); the pre-close lint's word-final -ny check surfaced it, repaired I3-safe to kulji junkurr 'hard stone'. Express 'sharp' via the cutting tool (naybu, kulji), not a coined adjective.

MORPH: balur (single-r) → INST balur-ubu (-Vbu, like wungar-abu); juwal (l-final) → INST juwal-da (ex.629); grinding stone = kulji murni-nka (verb-root + PURP). LINT NOTE: the pre-bank whitelist had wrongly accumulated kudamundu-nga/jandal-nga/balbal-nga/yindu-nga as "OK" LOC forms; the authoritative lint_corpus.py correctly rejected all four (consonant/-u finals never take -nga) → fixed to bare kudamundu, jandal-ba, balbal-ba, yindu-ngu, and the bad prefixes purged from the scanner. Lint GREEN over 5447.

batch-108 — INTERROGATIVES & QUESTIONS (construction, 2026-07-06)

The full question system, now cheatsheet Rule 66. wanya 'who' (POTENT case set: ERG wanyangka, DAT wanyanka, POSS wanyamba), wanyu 'what' (NEUTRAL set: DAT wanyurringku='why', LOC wanyurrimbu, COMIT wanyurrinji='what illness'), wanja/wanjabu 'where/somewhere' (ABL wanjamuny). Derived: wanjawanja 'when', wanjarr(-ku) 'how', wanjarrinya 'how many', wanjinya/wanjaku 'which one', wanyu-nguy 'what kind'. junjuy 'something', yuwu 'yes', kari 'no'. Polar Q = statement + rising intonation. ⭐ who=potent / what=neutral mirrors the ergative animacy split (Rule 64), and a question word takes the case its answer would take. New attestations: ngaki-l 'steal' (l.2645), yilayku 'yesterday' (l.2487), kubarr 'freshwater eel', bambay 'sick', binal 'know', jukar 'sand', bangkarr 'body', babaji-l 'ask'.

PHANTOM RULINGS:

• ⚠️ ngaki-l = 'STEAL' (verb, l.2166/2645 'dog stole my meat') — NOT 'skin'. I had coined ngaki='skin' in b107.36; caught this batch → swept id5433 I3-safe (removed the phantom 'skin' noun; the row now cuts meat with a knife and splits wood with an axe). 0 bare ngaki remain in the corpus.
• ⚠️ dungkur (nearly coined for 'body') is UNATTESTED — 'body' = bangkarr. Caught at pre-bank when the single-r LOC flag (dungkur-ba) prompted a grep; fixed to bangkarr-ba (rr→-ba).
• kutij 'short' and wana-l 'leave' UNATTESTED → reworded away.

LINT IMPROVEMENT (permanent): the EN-punctuation check now strips a trailing quotation mark before testing for final .?! (symmetric with the existing leading-quote handling), so direct-speech questions ending …?" pass. This batch is heavy on framed direct speech and Q&A pairs (avg 10.86 Kuku words/row). Lint GREEN over 5497.

batch-109 — BODY PARTS (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Complete everyday body-part vocabulary, now cheatsheet Rule 67. Head/face dukul/mungka/walu/miyil/milka/ ngandal/dirra/nyabil/bari/jakay/munju; torso binda/damu/bibi/muku/jiba/jibar/julbi/wubul/ mula/bajibay/wurra; limbs mara/wakuy/jandal/waba/jina. Inalienable possession = juxtaposition, no -mu (l.1834). Productive compounds: miyil-burra blind, miyil-dandi sleepless, miyil-dudu illiterate, milka-kari deaf, dirra-baka swears. HEAR = nyaji-l/milka-bu nyaji-l; LISTEN = milka-janay. New: kubu smoke, ngumbu black, kuru affection, kabal Leichardt-tree, murri healer, wulngku song; yununy=2sg ACC confirmed (l.5494).

RULINGS:

• ⚠️ miyil = 'eye' (grammar l.2232 productive eye-compounds) — dict glosses 'tree', grammar wins.
• ⚠️ wubul = 'heart' AND 'many/all' (homophone); jiba = 'liver' = emotion-seat (base of jiba-wulay 'sweet').
• ⚠️ ngara-l 'hear' UNATTESTED (ngara='root') → use nyaji-l/milka-janay. ngunjan/jujubala unattested; ngubar = 'the other side' NOT smoke (smoke = kubu, black = ngumbu).
• ⚠️ rrunyuji 'doctor' is attested (l.689) but violates the l/r/rr onset rule the lint enforces → used the clean attested synonym murri instead (kept the lint's phonotactic rule intact rather than whitelisting one odd word).

✅ WATCHLIST-CLEARING SWEEP (debt reduced): grepping the sources VINDICATED two long-standing high-frequency suspects rather than repairing them — burri (76 rows) is attested 'name, corroboree song' (grammar l.2095, burri-duda-l 'beat time to corroboree'), used correctly throughout; kalbal (24 rows) is attested 'remedy' (dict), used correctly ('boiled the remedy', 'gave medicine'). Both CLEARED from the phantom watchlist. Other watchlist items milkan/janyji/kunya/jubi/jinbi = 0 corpus rows (clean). Lint GREEN over 5547.

batch-110 — NEGATION (construction, 2026-07-06)

The full negation system, now cheatsheet Rule 68. kari 'not' (before predicate, verb fully inflected; also 'no' and 'but'); clitics kari-ku 'not yet/not all', kari-rrku 'not really'; balu/baluda prohibitive 'desist/let it be'; privative -kari 'without X'; yamba-kari 'nothing', bama kari 'nobody'; precautionary -nyji 'lest' (negative purpose: bayka-nyji, kada-ba-nyji, X-ma-nyji). New: wawu 'want' (takes DAT object, ex.4), warmba-bunga-l 'find' (ex.57), bikibiki 'pig', mani 'money' (ex.55), nganka 'flower', muyar 'wind', jawun 'friend', milkabujar 'lonely'.

RULINGS:

• ⚠️ yalama-l = 'say, do' (l.2976, transitive, ← yala 'this') — NOT 'wait'. Caught in row 16 (used as 'wait') and reworded to bunda-l baya ngundu 'sit by the fire'. ('wait' has no clean single verb — use bunda-l 'sit'.)
• ⚠️ dara-y = 'fall' (y-conjugation, dict headword daray) — NOT dara-l. 'lest fall' precautionary form is uncertain (y-conj), so used attested precautionary verbs (wundi-nyji, waju-nyji, ngaki-nyji) instead.
• After kari, the verb is fully inflected nonpast/past, never bare (corpus: kari dungay 6× vs bare 0×).

⚠️ NEW WATCHLIST ITEM — kariku sense-drift (~246 rows): grammar is firm that kariku = 'not yet / not all' (l.3821, kari+emphatic -ku). But across many accepted batches it has drifted to 'before / once / formerly' (e.g. b109.34 "once it was strong"). Many uses ARE correct 'not yet'/'still not' (e.g. b98.7 "still did not come"), so this needs a bounded per-row audit (like the -mundu sweep), not a blind global replace — flagged for a future batch. Going forward kariku is used only as 'not yet'. Lint GREEN over 5597.

batch-111 — TIME, SEASONS & CELESTIAL (lexical, 2026-07-06)

Full time/sky inventory, now cheatsheet Rule 69. New verified lexemes: wungar sun/day, kija moon/month, dawar/mulawajarr star, jiri sky, ngurrban cloud, wunkuwingku morning, wujurr night/darkness, wunkun tomorrow, yilayku yesterday, yinyamun then, nyiku-nyiku soon, marri/ngadi/wuljal-wuljal long-time, niji now, wungar-iji hot season, bulur-iji cold season, bulur dew/morning-chill, ngaji mother's-father, balbay lightning, jarramali thunder.

RULINGS / GUARDS:

• ⭐ wunkun = 'tomorrow' is the real word. Earlier batches circumlocuted 'tomorrow' as wungar kada-nya ('the coming day') — acceptable but wunkun is the lexeme; use it going forward.
• ⭐ dawar (also mulawajarr) = 'star' — reconfirms the standing jubuny PHANTOM ruling (jubuny is NOT a word).
• ⭐ kija = 'moon' AND 'month' (l.2509); counted kija-kija; kija jambul-muny 'after two months' (ex.280). Also a creation being (made the first women at kijandaku 'Roaring Meg Falls', l.719).
• ⭐ Seasons are COMIT -iji compounds: wungar-iji hot season, bulur-iji cold season (l.6032-6034).
• ⚠️ warral 'green' is UNATTESTED — do NOT coin it. Use ngulkurr 'good' or mayi-jirr 'with food' for 'lush/green country'. (Caught + reworded before banking, rows 26/42/49.)
• ⚠️ kaban = 'paper, book, letter' (l.2238/2910/6065) — NOT 'cover'. Was mistakenly reached for as 'cover' in three drafts; all reworded before banking. No verb for 'cover' used.
• MORPH: bare nonpast kada → kaday (16 surface fixes); wungar wangkar-wangkar stays bare (single-r locational adverb, no -ba); INCHO/past elder surface in kuku (yalbay-ma-n, wulan). Lint GREEN over 5647.

SWEEP (interleaved, 2026-07-06) — kariku sense-drift RESOLVED + named-phantom watchlist CLEARED

kariku audit (the b110 watchlist item, ~246→277 rows) — RESOLVED. Full positional + fidelity audit of all 277 accepted/revised rows containing kariku:

• Syntax: 0 free-adverb uses. All 299 occurrences are modifier-position X kariku — the correct 'not yet X / before X' idiom (commonest: nyulu kariku, yundu kariku, verb+kariku e.g. dungay kariku 'before going', wungar kariku 'before the sun'). The syntactic fear was unfounded.
• Fidelity: only 11 rows genuinely misused kariku ('not yet') where the English meant a completed past — fixed I3-safe (revisions + status='revised'):
  • 'no longer / cannot VERB' (7 rows: id1984/1985/1995/2042/2045/2093/2380) → kariku→kari 'not' (plain negation; Kuku has no 'anymore' particle, kari+nonpast is the faithful rendering).
  • 'never' (3 rows / 4 occ: id2337/2466/2647) → kariku→kari (Kuku renders 'never' with kari, not kariku).
  • 'once it WAS strong' (past positive, id5531) → kariku→kalbay-muny 'long ago' (verified b111; parallels its own niji 'now'). This was the true drift (analysis had literally glossed kariku as "before").
  • id2258 (nyulu kariku bikirr-manin 'he had not yet become skilled' = "was once a fumbling child") is a correct use of kariku='not yet' — left as-is.
• RULE (reaffirmed): kariku = 'not yet / not all' ONLY (l.3821). For 'no longer/never/cannot' use kari; for a completed-past 'once/formerly' use kalbay-muny/ngadi — NEVER kariku. Watchlist item closed.

Named-phantom watchlist — CLEARED (word-boundary verified, all 0): janyji=0, kunya=0, jubi=0, jinbi=0, milkan=0, kulur-jambul=0. (Earlier substring counts were false positives inside kunjanyji, makunyajin, milka-nga/milka-nya, etc.) These names can be retired from active watch. Remaining dense-cluster debt (own future sweep): janka-yukil 9, yilbay 8, bubu-jandu 5, bikirr 10.

batch-112 — COMPARISON & SIMILATIVE (construction, 2026-07-06)

The comparison/similative system, now cheatsheet Rule 70. yala COMP 'like/same'; X yala Y 'X is like Y'; yala walu-walu yala X 'looks like'; yala-ku 'like this'; yala-rrku 'just the same/also'; nyubun/nyubun-bu 'same/as one'; kari yala 'different'; DEGREE by juxtaposition + bajaku (no comparative morpheme). New verified lexemes: yala COMP, walu face / walu-walu looks, nyubun-bu as-one, kuli anger (l.1476), wanarri run (l.2018), bila fast (dict), yajarri-l laugh/play, jina foot/track.

RULINGS / GUARDS:

• ⭐ yala is the comparison particle (l.3748), not only the demonstrative 'this'/adverb 'thus' it's been used as.
• ⭐ 'looks like' idiom needs walu-walu (face-REDUP = 'appearance'), attested ex.205.
• ⚠️ No morphological comparative/superlative in Kuku Yalanji — degree is periphrastic (juxtaposition + bajaku). Do NOT coin an '-er/-est' or a 'than' morpheme.
• ⚠️ ngampula 'ours' is ILLEGAL — contains /p/, which Kuku Yalanji lacks (only prenasalised mb). Caught by the lint's illegal-letter check → reworded to bubu ngayku 'my country' (1sg POSS, verified b106). Watch all 1pl/2pl possessive pronoun forms for stray /p/.
• ⚠️ kaban 'paper/book' is a real word but a post-contact loan concept — kept OUT of a traditional sky-reading elder-simile (reworded 'read the sky like a book' → 'read the whole sky'). Fine in modern/school contexts.
• baral 'road' IS attested (grammar l.1978 baral-baral 'roads') but stays on the denylist (earlier sense-misuse) — used jina 'foot/track' for path/road this batch. (Candidate for a future denylist review now that the sense is confirmed.) Lint GREEN over 5697.

batch-113 — BUSH FOODS & PLANTS (lexical, 2026-07-06) + verb-sense corrections sweep

Full botanical vocabulary, now cheatsheet Rule 71. ~33 new/updated lexemes (yams, fruits, nuts, trees, parts, scrub fauna, food-verbs). Themes: the women's digging round, poison-food processing, fire-stick farming, gathering etiquette, reading flowers/leaves as seasonal signs.

⚠️ THREE FOOD-VERB SENSE-DRIFTS corrected I3-safe (before authoring, revisions logged):

• baka-l = 'dig, poke' (grammar ex.61 dug pipis, ex.223 stick poked me) — I had used it for 'break/split' in 2 rows (id5667 'does not break', id5676 'split the fruit') → fixed to dumbarri-l 'break'.
• bangka-l = 'catch/gather large quantity' (grammar ex.162) — used for 'carry' in 1 row (id5666 'carrying a child') → fixed to jarra-kulba-l 'carry/lift' (dict). (⚠️ bangkan noun = 'root' — different word.)
• kuka 'yam' is a PHANTOM (absent from dict AND grammar) — id5663 (b111) fixed → bambayal 'yam'. The other 5 corpus 'kuka' hits were substring false positives (bajaku-ka, jarra-kuka) in early pre-b088 rows.
• Scope note: 'baka'/'bangka' appear in ~196/288 rows, but those are overwhelmingly the -baka '-excess' suffix, correct baka-l=dig/poke, and bangkan=root — only the 3 above were genuine drifts (EN-cue verified).

OTHER RULINGS:

• ⚠️ barka = 'yellow water snake' — homophone; NOT 'nut'. Use bilar/bijalabay for nuts.
• ⚠️ murni-l = 'grind, rub, stir' (grammar l.3545 'stir' + b107 kulji murni-nka 'grinding stone') — REMOVED from the over-broad pre-bank denylist (it is attested; the entry was a false guard).
• ⚠️ balmba (soft), milbin (show/teach), munjal (gather) are NOT dict headwords → avoided; used nyaji-mani 'show', bangka-l/mujal 'gather/collect'. baral 'road' still denylisted (used jina 'track'). Lint GREEN 5747.

batch-114 — VERBAL ASPECT & DEGREE (construction, 2026-07-06)

The durative/iterative reduplication + -baja + degree system, now cheatsheet Rule 72. New verified lexemes: kankaday/bundanday/wunanay/banbadi/janjanay/wanarri (the six obligatory partial-redup verbs), nukalkal 'keep eating', nuril 'peep', kunbayn 'finish', yudal 'begin', jarra DEG1 'rather/more', dandi hard, kima soft.

RULINGS / MORPH LAW:

• ⭐ Verb reduplication = durative/iterative ('keep V-ing'); y-conjugation inserts -n- (warri-n-warri-y).
• ⭐ Six frozen partial-redup verbs (full form unacceptable, l.1241-1246) — surface kankaday/bundanday/wunanay/ banbadi/janjanay/wanarri.
• ⚠️ NEW SURFACE-LAW confirmation (lint-enforced): the -iy-final redup forms drop the final y in the elder surface — banbadi (not *banbadiy), wanarri (not *wanarriy); the analysis keeps badi-n-badi-y/warri-n-warri-y. The -ay forms are unaffected. (I initially mis-exempted -iy; the authoritative lint corrected it.)
• ⭐ -baja splits by class: verb -baja = 'again' (l.2139); adjective -baja-ku = 'very' (ex.82) — this is the source of the crystallized intensifier bajaku. DEG1 prefix jarra- = 'rather/more'.
• kunbayn 'finish' (completive) + yudal 'begin' (inceptive) bound the action.
• LOC fixes this batch: kalbay-mba (y-final), wangkar-a (single-r); note bubu-LOC = bubu-ngu (47×) is the norm, not bubu-nga. Lint GREEN over 5797.

Batch-115 — fish & maritime fauna (LEXICAL); six wrong-sense corrections caught pre-bank

Verified sea vocabulary (dictionary.yaml headwords): kuyu fish · jirril small fish · dijarr freshwater fish · balarri queenfish · danbal/dawal kingfish · julaji/kanyaji catfish · kalu garfish · dalku archer-fish · dukul-barangkal flathead · jingka-jingka silverfish · kubarr big black eel · bilmbin/bububay black-tip shark · kilkirr tiger shark · ngawiya/yalnga sea turtle · ngujay freshwater turtle · kadan turtle-shell · biwuy dugong · kiju mudcrab · karruku fiddler crab · julul/juwarru oyster · darkay clam · kajarrbi clam-shell · dakaldakal trocus-shell · jalan sea-urchin · dulngku/karrangkal reef · karrirrangkal coral · mulngku wave · balar high tide · ngajal low tide · yira tide · kajul/kakaji mangrove · kalkil salt · wayul seaweed · murbuy red ochre · maraji swim · makarr net · dirrmbay seagull · Jalunji seafarers.

• 🔴 ngamu = 'MOTHER', not 'egg' — Kuku Yalanji has no dictionary word for 'egg' (egg/eggs both absent). I had drifted ngamu to 'egg' in b115 (turtle/fish eggs) and one earlier row (b113 id5735, scrub-hen's brood). Corrected everywhere: karrkay 'young' or kuyu ngamu 'the mother fish'; id5735 fixed I3-safe (ngamu→karrkay). ngamu is used correctly as 'mother' in ~200 accepted rows — this was a fresh-batch sense-slip, not a corpus rot.
• 🔴 jarba = 'SNAKE', not 'canoe' — the language appears to lack a canoe word (only birungubay 'paddle'). All three canoe uses reworded: the dugong is "taken quietly on the water", the young men "swam out beyond the reef".
• 🔴 kulur = 'THREE', not 'colour' — the flathead is now "like the sand" (jukar yala), not "the colour of sand".
• 🔴 marra = 'TREE', not 'ochre' — the attested word is murbuy 'red ochre' (traded far inland with stone).
• 🔴 kaban = 'PAPER/book' (post-contact loan), not 'cover' — the tide now daka 'rises over' the reef. (Same trap flagged in b112 for a sky-reading simile; re-confirmed.)
• jukul/wandal/yanyul/buwa/mara-kaki unattested → mud = kambal-kambal, 'step' = jina wandi (put foot), dance = jurbu; 'spit'/'finger' reworded away. All six added to the pre-bank denylist.
• ⚠️ mulngku 'wave' vs wulngku 'song' — near-homophones; kept strictly apart (wulngku is on the denylist).
• MORPH: single-r LOC -a (jukar-a/wangkar-a/balar-a, corpus norm); elder past ngalkal-ma-n; kada→kaday. Lint GREEN over 5847.

Batch-116 — conditional & hypothetical (CONSTRUCTION); a dozen wrong-sense/phantom words caught pre-bank

Conditional/hypothetical vocabulary verified: kaki 'if/when' (conditional particle, dict + §4.3.2) · nguba 'perhaps' · kunka 'might be/in case' · nganganjirrka 'just in case' · IRREALIS -nyaku counterfactual · PRECAUT -nyji 'lest' · SUCC -nyjiku 'before'. Consequence-clause lexicon: kaba rain · jalungkarr flood · ngiki cold · bambay sick · baja-burray tired · dakuy hungry (gram ex.82) · kabu rotten.

• 🟢 Three denylist words reinstated in their TRUE sense this batch (each was denylisted only as a guard against a wrong sense, and each is correct here): kaki = 'if/when' (the whole batch's subject; NOT 'long ago' = kalbay-muny); wulngku = 'song' (NOT mulngku 'wave'); jarba = 'snake' (correct in "just in case a snake lies on the track"; the b115 guard was against jarba='canoe'). Also dakuy = 'hungry' confirmed (grammar ex.82, l.5850).
• 🔴 Wrong-sense words caught by grepping BEFORE banking (NONE reached the corpus): biyal = 'gristle' not wallaby (→ kadar, the 53-row corpus norm); bilngkumu = 'CROCODILE' not raw (→ waju-kari 'uncooked'); kija = 'place' not drink (→ bana mani 'get water'; kija is also 'moon'); kunji = 'sneeze' not stop; maral = 'young girl' not smooth (→ dirka-dirka); jawun = 'friend' not family (→ bama 'people'); dara = 'bamboo spear' — 'fall' is daray; kulbul = 'ripe' not wake (no 'wake' word — reworded); kanga unattested — 'climb' = dakal.
• 🔴 Straight phantoms (unattested) → replaced: buranbaji→nganka flower; bunkur→bajibay bone; wamba→daki-daki lazy; jangkar(story)→balka 'talk'; jindalba(plain)→bubu ngalkal; bikirr(range)→manjal mountain; karrkan(high)→jarra-jarra/wangkar; buburr(fly, real word = marra-warri)/wau(bark)/ngalkuwar/yinbatharr dropped. Real words also logged: yararri 'shiver', nyunbay 'turn back/return', kaya 'dog'.
• MORPH: elder past marral-ma-n/dandi-ma-n (INCHO -ma-ny→-ma-n); y-final LOC yaluy-mba/kalbay-mba; kada→kaday. Lint GREEN over 5897.

Process note (b116 interleave sweep) — the reword-desync failure mode

When repairing a bank file by string replacement, remember the KUKU field is Capital-initial but the analysis segmentation is lowercase — a full-sentence replace frequently updates one and not the other, and the result passes BOTH the pre-bank scan (kuku-only) and the mechanical lint (a legal-but-wrong word is invisible). Eight batch-116 rows shipped with a stale analysis (or stale kuku for jaba-l/bikirr) exactly this way; the post-close interleave sweep (grep the DB for each newly-resolved wrong-sense token across kuku AND analysis) caught all eight and fixed them I3-safe, plus one genuinely old wrong-sense (id2070 kunji='sneeze' misused for 'bury' → wandi 'put/place'). Rule: reword token-wise and apply to both fields; after every close, grep the DB over kuku+analysis for the batch's corrected tokens — the interleave sweep is mandatory, not optional. Corpus-rot check this sweep confirmed CLEAN (correct sense in accepted rows): kija=moon (48), maral=girl (62), bilngkumu=crocodile (34), kanga=chase (12), bikirr=skill (11).

Batch-117 — birds (LEXICAL); heaviest wrong-sense batch, all caught by grep (incl. post-bank sweep)

Bird vocabulary verified (dictionary.yaml headwords): buyi bird · nangki wing/plumage · banda tail · marra-warri fly · kuyir bush-curlew · kururrungka kookaburra · jarruka scrub-hen · diwan scrub-turkey · kurrbal plain-turkey · bulnja frogmouth · dawa-dawa magpie · kalbu crow · kalkuy owl · kurranji cassowary · kadanji black-cockatoo · karrambil king-parrot · birrbirr lorikeet · jurriyan bower-bird · dabuy kingfisher · bakamu green-pigeon · juku-juku bronzewing-dove · kuludu dove · kulbal brolga · jamarbina goose · birmba ibis · juril-juril plover · mabal swallow · jangkan swift · jinabiju goshawk · kalin-kalin kestrel. Non-bird lexemes verified: bilangkurr blanket · ngala-ngala red · jimu grasshopper · bajuy lizard · ngirran beetle · muyar wind · kuwimbur whistle · nandal close/shut · kanga chase (corpus norm).

• 🔴 Wrong-sense words caught (grep before banking + in the MANDATORY post-bank DB grep): kudamundu = 'behind' (grammar l.2391), NOT 'slowly' — and it was quietly wrong in one older accepted row (id5834, the b115 tide "slow breath"), now fixed I3-safe; wakuy = 'arm' not lizard (→ bajuy); wabul = 'ti-tree' not beetle (→ ngirran); yuku = 'big' not flute; mudu = 'lower back' not fold; kunbu = 'big day' not shut (→ nandal); jaba = 'stick' not scratch (→ baka dig); bangkarr = 'body' (used it in a bad 'drunk' compound — dropped). Straight phantoms → replaced: walbul(blanket→bilangkurr), jangan(→jimu), mimbal(red→ngala-ngala), ngalkuwarr(wind→muyar), bugal(→kalka), kuwil(koel→kadanji), plus ngulan/biral/jirrbu/jiripu/nganjil/ jangkarr/jarrki/jubu-jubu/wanka (no blue/green/thing/moth/trap words) — all reworded to attested near-terms.
• 🔴 NO Kuku Yalanji word for: egg · feather · nest · blue · green · thing · moth · trap · koel · brown · purple · slowly. Rendered with karrkay young, nangki plumage, buyi-bubu nest, balbal bright, ngumbu dark, janka quietly.
• MORPH: object = ABSOLUTIVE (no accusative -nha; /h/ illegal); jurriyan not jurriyam (‑m coda banned); dawa-dawa lexical redup hyphenated; muyar-a (single-r LOC), yindu-ngu (u LOC). ⚠️ The post-bank DB grep (both fields) caught 8+ capital-initial reword desyncs the kuku-only pre-bank scan missed — the b116 process guard proved essential. Lint GREEN 5947.

Batch-118 — complementation & catenative (CONSTRUCTION); complement-verbs + the absolutive-object relapse

Complement-verb inventory verified: wawu want (particle, §4.9.1) · binal know-how-to · babal try · binal-bungal teach (make-know) · yungal send (ex.273-274) · mara-dajil help (hand-give) · balu let/leave-alone (ex.570) · binalku remember · milka-wulay forget (ear-die) · yudal begin · kunbayn finish. Other verified: biwar wife · duwar black-palm · yalaku custom/way · wurun humpy · jirakal new · dabu bee · kulngkul heavy · yaba elder-brother.

• 🔴 Wrong-sense caught by grep before banking: daya = 'give' not wife (→ biwar); jangan = 'grasshopper' (b117!) not way/manner (→ yalaku 'custom'); jibarr = 'hinterland' not new (→ jirakal); ngaji = 'grandfather' (b111) not aunt (dropped); ngamurr-buyi coinage → dabu 'bee'. Straight phantoms (unattested) → reworded away: dungkarr(straight), kindu(fire-stick), jimba(mat), bujal(wounded), wanyjarr(how-old), nyungku(your→yunu), ngudan(shelter→wurun), jimirr(palm→duwar). NO word for straight/fire-stick/mat/wounded/how-old.
• 🟢 yaba = 'elder brother' kept — a legitimate corpus homophone with the dict's yaba 'eel' (322 accepted rows use the kinship sense correctly).
• 🔴 CASE RELAPSE (the lint caught it, twice): I re-invented an accusative -nha on common-noun objects/addressees — exactly the batch-117 error — which also smuggled in an illegal /h/. THE RULE (Rule 39 + b117): common-noun object = ABSOLUTIVE (bare); balka addressee = DATIVE -nka; PRONOUN object = the real ACCUSATIVE (nganya me, yununy you, nyunguny him; nyungunku him-DAT). This is a recurring trap — the absolutive-object rule must be held actively whenever a transitive/ditransitive verb takes a human object. Lint GREEN 5997.

Batch-119 — reptiles, frogs & insects (LEXICAL); four phantoms + a standing bukul-debt

Verified fauna inventory (all dictionary.yaml headwords): snakes jarba/bindimu/jinkalmu/kalkamuku/bakay/ kabul/jijirrbay; lizards bajuy/jadi/kalajarr/bajabaja/binanjal/bilbil-bilbil/jabil; bilngkumu croc; frogs yirku-yirku/karrkurr; insects kamu/diri-diri/munjurr/mujurr/kuja/dabu/malal/kurrmbal/karrkil/ jabarrangkul/durra/kandal/birinjil/biringal/mulma. Actions baykal bite · jalngkay itch · janku hole · walmba log · nandal close. nyabil tongue · dumbul bark · kararr blanket. kulur='three' VERIFIED (graduated off the denylist).

• 🔴 PHANTOMS caught by grep/lint (now on the pre-bank denylist):
  • ganggal 'skin' — UNATTESTED and phonotactically illegal (no plain /g/ onset in KY, only /ng/). There is no simple noun 'skin' at all → reword around it. 0 accepted debt.
  • jalany 'tongue' — wrong; tongue = nyabil (12 accepted rows already correct).
  • bukul 'bark' — phantom; bark = dumbul (16 accepted rows) / julkun. ⚠️ 5 ACCEPTED ROWS carry bukul → WATCHLIST: bukul → dumbul reconciliation sweep (revisions + status='revised', not a blind global replace).
  • nyunun 'bedding' — unattested; bedding/blanket = kararr / bilangkurr.
• 🟡 Wrong-sense reworded before banking: kunji='sneeze' not block (→ nandal close); kudamundu='behind' not slow (dropped — no 'slow'/'slowly' word); dungkarr/jangkar unattested.
• 🔴 -nha relapse (3rd batch running): the fake accusative -nha reappeared on the 3pl object (jana-nha). 3pl object = bare jana; balka addressee = jana-nka (DAT). The lint's /h/ check is the reliable backstop.

WATCHLIST update

Batch-120 — the -nya subordinate clause (CONSTRUCTION); the three wawu + a work/happy mix-up

Verified: wawu- since/after (TEMP4 proclitic, +ABL) · kunka in-case · nganganjirrka just-in-case · kirraji work · wawu-mini happy · dukal fig-tree · kaka sore · manu throat · kangkal (own) child · wala-l enter · jiri sky · yajarri laugh · badi cry · warngku sleep · manubu-dama-l watch · kinkay play.

• ⭐ THE THREE WAWU (do not conflate): wawu 'want/like' (b118) · wawu 'breath/soul' (b110) · wawu- 'since/after' (TEMP4 temporal proclitic, grammar §3.10.1, occurs ONLY with ABL -muny: wawu-mayi-muny 'after the meal').
• 🔴 Wrong-sense / phantoms caught by grep (now denylisted): yinkar = 'dilly bag' NOT work (reached for it twice; work = kirraji); jiba = 'liver' so the coinages jiba-ngulkurr / jiba-badi for 'happy' were wrong (happy = wawu-mini, attested); dungun 'shaft', jayba 'choke', yinbarr 'yelp', kindil 'burning', marndi 'dry' (adjective is marral), bibi 'play' (real word kinkay) — all unattested, reworded. jangan (grasshopper) desynced into two kuku 'way' slots → yalaku; jibarr phantom in the closing sentence → reworked.
• 🟡 Lint false-positive: jilba-dunga 'walk-go' is a genuine attested compound (grammar ex.495) but the lint reads its trailing -dunga as -nga LOC allomorphy. Reworded to bare jilba for now; if the compound recurs, whitelist it in lint_corpus.py rather than reword.
• 🟢 The bukul→dumbul watchlist debt (b119) was SWEPT this session (5 rows revised I3-safe, 0 remaining).

Batch-121 — kinship (LEXICAL); the kin web + the -karra plural

Verified kin inventory (all dictionary.yaml headwords + grammar §3): ngamu/mama mother · nganjan father · kalnga MB · bimakay FZ · yaba/yabaju elder/younger brother · babarr/jinkurr elder/younger sister · kami FF · ngaji MF · babi grandmother · kangkal own-child · jija/kaminjarr grandchild · dunyu husband · biwar/manyarr wife · biwul MiL · ngalayan FiL · bangunji cousin · mandi moiety · mulkal-mulkal totem · ngalba taboo-name · kuru affection. Also duku bent, wurrul shellfish.

• ⭐ Kinship plural -karra (KPL), NOT reduplication (l.1985): yaba-karra brothers, manyarr-karra wives. Exception: kangkal 'own child' reduplicates.
• 🔴 Phantoms / wrong-sense caught by grep (now denylisted): kangarr 'patient' (unattested → janka), nyirr 'bent' (→ duku), yalama 'obey' (not in dict; the grammar's yalama-ny is 'say', not 'obey' → reworded), jarrba 'shellfish' (→ wurrul); kanga = 'chase' misused for 'pass' (reworded); janji-kari = 'without bathing' (janji = bathe!) mistakenly for 'apart' (→ muru bundanday 'stay together'). The janji-kari slip is a good reminder that a compound built on the wrong root passes phonotactics but means something absurd.

Batch-122 — questions & interrogatives (CONSTRUCTION); the wanya/wanyu resolution + a crop of English-shaped phantoms

Interrogative inventory verified (grammar §3.6): wanya who (ERG-ABS, wanya-ngka who-ERG) · wanyu what · wanjabu where · wanjamuny where-from · wanja-wanja when · wanjarr how · wanjarrinya how-many · wanyurrimun/wanyurri-mbu why · wanyurri-nji ill-with-what · junjuy something · yaluy here · yurra you(2pl) · ngana we(1pl.inc) · ngananji with-us.

• 🟢 wanya = who, wanyu = what — RESOLVED (they had been muddled in b120). 'who' inflects like a noun; 'what' takes neutral case and its DAT/LOC/COMIT forms give why / why-there / ill-with.
• 🔴 English-shaped phantoms caught by grep + lint (now denylisted): nyawa 'truly', jinbi 'today', jibin 'tomorrow' — these intensifiers/temporals are reached for straight out of English but have no Kuku Yalanji word (use niji 'now', or drop). Also walba 'canoe' (→ walmba log), julmbu 'half', wanan 'wide' (→ yalbay), ngampula 'we-inc' (→ ngana, Rule 39), yalama 'answer' (→ balka; note the grammar's yalama-ny is 'said', not a bare 'answer'). ngana-jinji 'with us' → the correct COMIT ngananji.
• Lesson: intensifiers and function-words are a rich phantom source — an English adverb like 'truly/today/really' rarely has a one-word Kuku Yalanji equivalent; prefer an attested particle, an aspect suffix, or omission.

Batch-123 — speech, sound, names & message-carrying (LEXICAL); no generic noise, no fake listening verb

Verified speech / discourse lexemes: balka-l say/tell · balka-l-awa-y / balkalaway talk together · babaji-l ask (person asked LOC, topic DAT) · kunja-l call/summon/invite · yunga-l send · murru-kanga-l scold/growl at · yayngkar whisper. Verified hearing/perception: nyaji-l see/hear/perceive · yanday-nyaji-l overhear · milka-dandi good memory/listener · milka-dudu deaf · milka-baka-l warn/remind · milka-wula-y forget. Verified sound words: wulngku song · badi-y sing/cry/wail/howl · yirrka-y shout/cry out · kuwimbur yirrka-y whistle · kadil sharp/crashing sound · yanja rustling noise · ngangkurr bark · nyurra-baka too noisy. Verified names/truth words: burri name/song · dalki-l give a name/call by name · jurril lie/untruth · warmbiji-y lie/prevaricate · jurril-bunga-l trick by lying · manubaja truth · manubaja-bunga-l believe.

• 🔴 Draft-only traps caught before acceptance: kalka-karra was rejected because -karra is the kinship plural, not a general plural for objects; nyaji as a free English-like imperative 'listen!' was rejected pending a dedicated imperatives batch; binal nyajil for 'hear the meaning' was rejected as a loose English semantic calque; yanja was kept to rustling in grass rather than generalized to water/generic loud noise.
• 🔴 yalama remains retired for 'answer'. The grammar has forms glossed 'said', but the corpus should not use bare yalama as a dictionary word for English 'answer'. Use balka-l say/tell, or rephrase the question-answer exchange.
• 🟢 Discourse polysemy held deliberately: kuku can be word, language, news, story, or law; the English side should make the intended discourse function explicit, while the Kuku side can use the same central noun.
• Lint GREEN 6247; batch 123 added 50 accepted rows and 250 five-lens review passes.

Batch-124 — antipassive (CONSTRUCTION); -ji surface discipline + demoted-object case

Verified antipassive-bearing verbs and stems: nuka-l eat → nuka-ji / nuka-n-nuka-ji; wambi-l share out → wambi-jin; ngunja-l forage/take over → ngunja-ji / ngunja-n-ngunja-ji; nubi-l search for → nubi-nubi-ji; nuri-l peep/look into → nuri-nuri-ji; kuni-l hit → kuni-n-kuni-ji; dama-l spear → dama-n-dama-ji; bunjurri-ji throw curses everywhere. Fixed intransitive communication stems: kunjaji-y ask someone for something · walngkurriji-y pester someone for something · babaji-y ask someone about something.

• ⭐ Surface / analysis split: the Kuku sentence must use elder surface -ji (nonpast) and -jin (past), while the analysis keeps -ji-y and -ji-ny. The batch lint caught one analytic past form leaking into the surface: wala-ny → walan; the batch was rebanked before acceptance.
• ⭐ Antipassive is not just "passive backwards." The noun A becomes bare S, and the old O is demoted to LOC/PERL: minya-nga nuka-jin, mayi-nga wambi-jin, wukay-mba nubi-nubi-ji, kuyu-ngu dama-n-dama-ji, mayi-burr ngunja-n-ngunja-ji.
• 🔴 Allomorph traps: y-final wukay takes LOC -mba; u-final kuyu takes LOC -ngu; rr-final makarr takes LOC -ba; single-r kadar takes LOC -a. Do not flatten these to -nga.
• 🟢 Communication stems: kunjaji-y, walngkurriji-y, and babaji-y are held as fixed intransitive stems for corpus purposes: person addressed in LOC, requested/topic thing in DAT.
• Lint GREEN 6297; batch 124 added 50 accepted rows and 250 five-lens review passes.

Batch-125 — fire & cooking (LEXICAL); baya not buri + earth-oven/allomorph discipline

Verified fire/cooking inventory: baya fire/firewood · jimal fire-stick · dama-murni-l twirl a fire-drill · jakalamba-l start a fire · kubu smoke · wula flames · ngunjil charcoal/coals · wumbul hot/warm · jirra burnt · jujubala ironwood · jarramali thunder · kiway cold · waju-l/dict wayjul cook/burn/light-fire (PAST wajun) · dinda-l roast · nyama-l boil · kurrma earth oven · buyku paperbark · yijarri-l put/place · bawa-l leave · walnga-l take out/open · baka-l dig · duda-l pound · dingka-l knead · nyurrba-l grind · murni-l stir/rub/twist · damba damper · kawar honey bread · wunba honey · wandul fat · kulbul ripe · nganja taste/smell · dakwuy hungry · yajin full-from-eating · mujal collect/gather firewood · nanda-l cover · buyun-dama-l spoil/make bad · duna wet · marral dry · ngiki cool/cold.

• ⭐ Operator-guide typo corrected: fire/firewood = baya, not buri. Batch 125 used baya throughout and put buri on the batch denylist so the old prompt typo cannot re-enter.
• ⭐ waju-l is the live Patz analysis form; wayjul is the dictionary spelling. Treat them as the same cook/burn verb for corpus purposes, with elder-surface past wajun. Keep distinct: dinda-l roast, nyama-l boil, jani well-cooked/done, jirra burnt.
• ⭐ Earth-oven allomorphy: kurrma-nga, bubu-ngu, ngunjil-ba/ngunjil wumbul-ba, baya-nga, ngundu-ba. The oven sequence is baka-l dig, waju-l light, yijarri-l put food in, buyku cover, bawa-l leave, walnga-l take out/open.
• 🔴 Wrong gloss avoided before close: jarramali was narrowed to thunder, not generic wind/storm. The row now reads "Burn ironwood lest thunder come."
• 🔴 Wait-verb trap avoided: the draft "wait near the oven" row was rewritten as bunda-l 'sit' + purpose because the errata already warns that maku-janay should not be treated as a clean single wait verb.
• 🔴 Kept out / denied in this batch: bibiny wet (use duna/yaru), kambar as color/evening (it is white clay), jinbal as green/fine (it is fast), and fire/cooking phantoms jubaji/nyalbu/kuka; kubarr was avoided here because it belongs to the eel lexeme, not a generic cooking term.
• Lint GREEN 6347; batch 125 added 50 accepted rows and 250 five-lens review passes.

Batch-126 — negation (CONSTRUCTION); kari vs -kari vs balu

Verified negation inventory: kari NEG 'not' / interjection 'no' / discourse contrast · privative suffix -kari 'without, lacking' · balu NEG2 'desist, refrain, give up' · wawu-kari do-not-want/like · binal-kari not know · yamba-kari nothing/none · kariku not yet/not all · karirrku not really/not altogether. Privative stems logged: milka-kari deaf · mani-kari no money · nganka-kari flowerless · bajibay-kari boneless · kangkal-kari childless · dirra-kari toothless · bayan-kari homeless · marrkin-kari without rifle · kararr-kari without blanket · kaya-kari dogless · bana-kari waterless · kiru-kari stupid/brain-PRIV · ngiki-kari without a cold. Other verified batch forms: kamukamu alcohol/grog · buymbi-l smoke tobacco · nguju-wuri-y fool/play-around · bujil-janji drown · dara-y-mani-l drop/cause-to-fall · kulba lift.IMP (kept separate from kulbal brolga) · nyuya-l blame · jirra-kanga-l stoke/stir up · warmba-bunga-l uncover/find · ngawuya sea turtle.

• ⭐ Plain kari is syntax-sensitive. Predicate negation puts kari before the predicator; focused NP negation places it after the focused NP. Batch examples contrast Ngayu mayi kari nukan, minya nukan (not the plant food, meat) with Ngayu kari mayi nukan, karrkay-angka nukan (not I, the child).
• ⭐ Privative -kari is a derivational suffix, not a free particle. Further case follows the privative: bajibay-kari-ka, mani-kari-nda, kangkal-kari-ji, kaya-kari-ngka.
• ⭐ balu is not a synonym of kari. It carries desist/refrain/give-up/disapproval semantics: Ngayu balu kuni-wa-nka, Ngayu balu buymbi-nka, Nyulu warru balu dama-nka ngawuya.
• 🔴 Surface fixes before close: nguju-wuriy → surface nguju-wuri; jiba-badiy → surface jiba-badi. The analysis keeps nguju-wuri-y / jiba-badi-y.
• 🟢 Lint update: kamukamu is a lexicalized solid form in Patz (alcohol/grog), not a productive reduplication; it was added to SOLID_REDUP only after grep verification.
• 🔴 Headword collision avoided: Patz imperative kulba 'lift/pick up' was recorded as kulba, not normalized to kulbal, because the lexeme table already has kulbal = brolga. Do not merge these.
• Lint GREEN 6397; batch 126 added 50 accepted rows and 250 five-lens review passes.

Batch-127 — landscape & geography (LEXICAL); spatial words + local-case allomorphy

Verified landscape inventory: bubu ground/place/country · bana water · wawubaja river · yilki creek · jalun sea · jukar sand · madja scrub/rainforest · manjal mountain · jalkaraburr mountain peak/high mountain reaches · jalkar high bank · kangku valley/pass · jamba hillside · jirka spring/water source · janku hole in the ground · jalngarr flat rock · kulji stone/pebbles · dajali deep water · yalkan shallow water · dulngku reef · balar high tide · ngajal low tide · yira tide. Verified location words: wangkar up/upriver/inland · wangkarwangkar up there/above · bada down/downriver · badabada down there/underneath · ngundu close by/this side · ngubar other side of the river · kudamundu behind · yarra that way/over there by gesture.

• ⭐ Process design: this was a short lexical-control batch (avg 2.98 Kuku words/row), not a dense narrative batch. The point was to pin safe forms before later country/route paragraphs: exact Patz rows where possible, otherwise simple nominal or locative clauses.
• ⭐ Allomorphs deliberately exercised: bubu-ngu, dulngku-ngu, bana-nga, wawubaja-nga, yilki-nga, madja-nga, jamba-nga, jukar-a, manjal-ba, yalkan-ba, jalun-bu, bayan-muny, jalun-muny, ngubar-muny, wawubaja-burr, badabada-mundu.
• ⭐ Location-word behavior: bare wangkar, bada, ngundu, yarra, etc. can already be locative/directional. Do not mechanically add ordinary noun locatives to the closed location-word class.
• 🔴 baral road/path conflict kept live. Patz grammar has baral-darr 'along the road' in ex.397-398, but the project errata also records the dictionary conflict with baral 'feel'. Batch 127 avoided new productive baral road rows; use exact Patz quotations only if the conflict is explicitly documented, or choose a safer construction.
• 🔴 Operator-guide correction: naka-naka is across/over/the other side, not deep. Depth is dajali deep water and yalkan shallow water. The handoff text was corrected after this batch.
• 🔴 Surface fixes before close: janji-ny in the analysis must surface as janjin; wanarri-y surfaces as wanarri. Row 4's English was tightened to "really slippery" for emphatic -bi; row 50's bula was glossed as the dual pronoun "they.two".
• Lint GREEN 6447; batch 127 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, and 8 process/grammar lessons.

Batch-128 — imperatives/directives (CONSTRUCTION); allomorphs, suppletives, and urgency clitics

Verified imperative inventory and directive morphology: zero imperative on disyllabic l-conjugation roots (dida, kanga, nuka, janji, balka, kida, wandi) · -y imperative on disyllabic y-conjugation roots (dunga-y, kada-y, bunda-y, yirrka-y) · -ka on longer roots/stems (yijarri-ka, julurri-ji-ka, binal-ma-ka, babaji-ka, walu-wukurri-ka, kurrka-waba-ji-ka) · suppletive imperatives nyaka (from nyaji-l), mana (from mani-l), and daya (from daji-l) · imperative -da immediate-action clitic · -(ng)Vrr / -ngarr / -arr / -rr first/straight-away clitic · plural-subject -ri in kada-ri-ka · balu desist/let in attested intransitive imperative clauses.

• ⭐ The imperative allomorph rule is now explicit. Short l roots take zero command suffix, short y roots take -y, and longer roots/stems take -ka. This replaces any temptation to guess commands from dictionary citation forms.
• ⭐ Three suppletives are mandatory: nyaji-l -> nyaka, mani-l -> mana, daji-l -> daya. Batch 128 logged these as lexeme/morpheme notes and used them in both simple and reduplicated commands.
• ⭐ Causative compounds are the main exception. Wumbul-bunga! is not *wumbul-bunga-ka; action-causative dara-y-mani-l commands with suppletive mana: dara-y-mana.
• ⭐ balu stays semantically distinct from kari. It is the desist/let/leave-alone directive, safely attested here with intransitive imperatives (Balu dungay!, Balu wajujika!). The tentative Patz transitive example was not made into productive corpus law.
• ⭐ Urgency clitic allomorphy recorded: Nuka-ngarr!, Mayi-ngarr nuka!, Kadayarr!, Daya-rr!, and babaji-ka-rr all instantiate the same first/straight-away clitic family. Patz says there is no politeness contrast between these allomorphs.
• 🟢 Process record deliberately expanded: batch 128 stored 14 lessons, 30 lexeme/morpheme log rows, and a long batches.notes entry documenting sources, avoided forms, and surface-analysis decisions.
• 🔴 Do not use nyaka as generic English "listen!" yet. Because nyaji-l spans see/hear/perceive, the imperative is safe as "look/see" unless an explicit audible object or hearing context licenses the hearing reading. Do not resurrect ngara as listen/hear; ngara-l is verified as set up/build camp.
• 🔴 Exact Patz forms deferred pending lint/lexeme work: the attention interjections Ah/Yah and walnga! wake-up were not banked as surface tokens in this batch. The batch kept kada-y kada-y, jinbal nyaka nyaka, and a regular wandi! get-up row instead. If those exact forms are needed later, first verify and update the lint whitelist deliberately.
• 🔴 Surface fixes held before acceptance: analysis may show warri-y and nyaji-ji-y, but the elder surface must be warri and nyaji-ji. Batch 128 banked the surface forms correctly and documented the split.
• Lint GREEN 6497; batch 128 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 14 lessons, and 30 lexeme/morpheme logs.

Batch-129 — emotions and mental states (LEXICAL); wawu/yinil frames + safe body-part compounds

Verified inventory: wawu want/like/love and wawu breath/spirit/soul (homophones/functions kept distinct) · wawu jirray like/love very much · wawu-kari do not want/like · balu refrain/disapprove · yinil afraid/fear · yinil-ma-l become frightened · yinil-kanga-l frighten · yinil-kanga-ji-y be frightened by · kuli anger/rage/trouble · kuli-ji vicious/wild/rageful · jiba-badi-y sad/grieve · wawu-mini happy · wawurrwawurr-ma-l become glad/decide · milka-marri content/peaceful · wawu-dudaji anxious/dread · wawu-buyun worried/anxious · wawu-daray satisfied · milka-bujar homesick/lonely/sad/worried · milka-murruji ashamed/guilty · milka-burray exasperated · milka-wula-y forget/forgive · bambay sick · dakwuy hungry · yanji replete/full after eating (Yalanji) · yajin full of food (Nyungkul) · kaka sore/pain · wawu-wula-y exhausted/thirsty/tired · bijarr dream · bijarri-l dream · binalku remember.

• ⭐ Particle-predicate frame pinned: wawu, yinil, and binal are not ordinary English transitive verbs in these rows. They take dative noun complements (minya-ka, jarba-nka, bilngkumu-nku) or purposive verb complements (nuka-nka, mani-nka).
• ⭐ wawu-kari vs balu: wawu-kari is specific non-want/non-like; balu carries desist/refrain/disapproval. Batch 129 uses both and stores the contrast.
• ⭐ Fear allomorphy/process: yinil is the predicate, yinilman is the elder-surface inchoative past, yinil-kangan is the transitive frighten past, and yinil-kanga-jin is the intransitivized "was frightened by" form.
• ⭐ Happy/sad forms: safe happy = wawu-mini / wawurrwawurr-ma-l; safe sad/grieving = jiba-badi-y. The old jiba-ngulkurr/jiba-wawu style happy calques stay rejected.
• ⭐ Milka idioms: milka-bujar, milka-murruji, milka-burray, and milka-wula-y are valid ear-based emotional or cognitive compounds. Use them as lexicalized forms, not as a license to coin arbitrary milka-X mental states.
• 🔴 Dialect correction: fullness after eating should use Yalanji yanji by default. yajin is explicitly marked Nyungkul in the dictionary prose; it is logged for contrast, not used as the default in new Yalanji rows.
• 🔴 Exact duplicate caught before close: the first batch-129 draft repeated the long Batch-126 wawu-kari father's-dog row. Full-corpus lint caught it; the row was rebanked as the nonduplicate controlled variant Ngayu wawu-kari kaya-nka.
• 🔴 Surface discipline: jiba-badi-y surfaces as jiba-badi; wawu-wula-y surfaces as wawulay; bijarri-ny surfaces as bijarrin; milka-wula-ny surfaces as milka-wulan.
• Lint GREEN 6547; batch 129 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 38 lexeme/dialect logs.

Batch-130 — number and quantification (CONSTRUCTION); small numerals, pair morphology, all/some/none

Verified inventory: nyubun one · jambul two · mamarra old-fashioned/stylish two · kulur a few/three · jambul-jambul four · kanbal some/several · buban too few/insufficient/little · wubul many/all as a quantifier · jirray much/plenty/mass/large crowd · narmba all · wubul-ku all/every/really many · yambayamba everything · yamba-kari none/nothing · text-surface yambakari nothing · kanku half (text 51) · kankur half (Patz quantifier table, but dictionary has another manner sense) · -bulal intrinsic pair suffix · bula 3du pronoun · yubal 2du pronoun · wanjarrinya how many · yindu other/one-of · yinduy- y-final stem before inflection.

• ⭐ jambul vs -bulal: jambul counts two. -bulal means an intrinsic pair that belongs or acts together. Safe examples include Ngayu jambul juku nyajin, Juku-bulal yinyay janjanay, Yarraman-bulal kankaday, and Warru-bulal jambul, bula jilba-dungan.
• ⭐ kulur is not always hard "three": Patz §3.2.5 says it generally refers to cardinal three, but can mean an unspecified small number larger than two and smaller than kanbal; text 36 line 29 translates it as "some". Gloss it as "a few/three" where the context is not arithmetic.
• ⭐ wubul vs jirray: wubul is many identifiable/countable items; jirray is mass/plenty/size. This is now pinned by Birra wubul juku-ngu vs Birra jirray juku-ngu, plus bama jirray large crowd.
• ⭐ All/none inventory: narmba-ku all, wubul-ku all/every or emphatic many, yambayamba everything, yamba-kari/yambakari nothing. Do not invent English universal quantifiers.
• 🔴 kanku/kankur source tension: Patz's quantifier table lists kankur half, but text 51 uses kanku for half in Yunu kanku, ngayku kanku and Kanku nyandan. The dictionary's kankur entry is "right off/right through". New sentence rows should prefer text-attested kanku until the variant relation is clarified.
• 🔴 mara caution: Patz lists mara as "five (hand)", while the dictionary's strong entry is mara hand. Batch 130 logged the form but did not bank sentential mara=five rows; do not use it productively without a sentential source.
• 🔴 Blocked calques: kulur-jambul remains blocked as "countless"; do not build arithmetic compounds for "many", "countless", "half", "most", or "every" from English pressure.
• 🟢 Process logging expanded: batch 130 created synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-130-number-quantification-process.md with source pass, authoring decisions, rejected risks, lint/review counts, export state, and five-lens summary.
• Lint GREEN 6597; batch 130 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 31 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-131 — weather, sky, and time of day (LEXICAL); natural-force frames and weather phantoms blocked

Verified weather/sky/time inventory: kaba rain · ngurrban cloud · ngurrbal fog · wurrbal river mist/fog · muyar wind · jarramali thunder/thunderstorm/thunderheads · jabulbina thunder out west/start of storms · balbay lightning · wadjal cyclone · yiril rainbow · jiri sky/heaven · dawar star · wungar sun/day · wungar dakal sunrise · wungar daray sunset · wungar jalamal sun comes out from behind cloud · wungar wandil-wandil sun coming up · wungar wangkar-wangkar midday/early afternoon · wungar-iji hot season · bulur-iji cold season · muduwaju dawn/daybreak · wunkuwingku morning · yilay-yilay late afternoon · wujurr darkness/night · kiway cold · wumbul hot · duna wet · marral dry · julbarr slippery · ngumbu dark · dayirr clear/bright.

• ⭐ Natural-force syntax: rain, wind, thunderstorm, lightning, and cyclone are not forced into English dummy-subject clauses. Use attested Kuku frames: inanimate S (Kaba kaday), natural-force/potent A (Jarramali-ngka ... dalbarrin), and causal/instrumental -abu (Muyar-abu nganya yararri-manil).
• ⭐ Weather-time phrases: muduwajuny, wunkuwingku, yilay-yilay, wujurr-bu, wungar-iji, and bulur-iji are safe temporal settings. Do not add extra English prepositions or invent "during-weather" adverbs.
• 🔴 bunjurril rejected as a wind/blow verb. A dictionary usage string contains Muyarabu kaba bunjurril, but the headword is not independently glossed for ordinary wind-blowing, and grammar evidence points to curse/spit/throw meanings for the related root. Keep bunjurril on watchlist pending source repair; do not bank new rows with it.
• 🔴 balbay-nja / balbaynja remains blocked in new rows. The mechanical denylist blocks the segmented form. Use bare balbay lightning or a source-safe storm/strike frame instead.
• 🔴 Cloud/fog distinctions: ngurrban cloud, ngurrbal fog, and wurrbal river mist/fog are separate entries; do not collapse them into one English "cloudy/foggy" adjective.
• 🔴 Night/dark distinction: wujurr is night/darkness; ngumbu is dark as a property. Keep night setting, darkness, blackness, and fear contexts separate.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 131 stored the source pass, duplicate replacements, rejected-risk decisions, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-131-weather-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6647; batch 131 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 32 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-132 — clitics and discourse highlighting (CONSTRUCTION); host restrictions, ordering, and source cautions

Verified clitic inventory for this batch: -da TEMP1 then/following · -kuda TEMP2 meanwhile/overlap, semantically cautious · -(ng)Vrr TEMP3 first-of-all/straight-away, with allomorphs such as -ngurr, -ngarr, -urr, -rr · -ku EMPH1 general emphasis · Yalanji -lu EMPH2 attention/high point · Nyungkul -la EMPH2 attention/highlight · -bi EMPH3 surprise · -(V)rrku EMPH4 totality/exclusivity/thoroughness · -baja again/back or degree by host · -ji in-turn on pronouns.

• ⭐ -da sequence close: use on the following/final action or state in a sequence. It is not a free translation of English "now".
• ⭐ -(ng)Vrr first-of-all: safe with the Patz-host range: objects (kuyu-ngurr), verbs (waju-l-urr), nouns in commands (mayi-ngarr), suppletive/long imperatives (daya-rr, julurri-ka-rr), and pronouns (nyulu-ngurr).
• 🔴 -kuda caution: Patz explicitly says its function is not fully transparent. Treat it as source-bound "meanwhile/overlap"; do not use it as a generic certainty, progressive, or English "meanwhile" filler.
• 🔴 -ku caution: EMPH1 can sometimes be translated "really", but that is not its whole meaning. Do not use it as a general degree adverb when -baja-ku, jirray, yalbay, or another source construction is intended.
• 🔴 -bi caution: surprise/astonishment marker, not generic "very". Source-safe domains include dream-match and unexpected slippery-ground examples.
• 🔴 -(V)rrku restriction: only verbs, pronouns, kari, and yala are safe hosts. Do not attach it to arbitrary nouns to mean all/every; use Rule 88 quantifiers instead.
• 🔴 -baja split: action/motion verb = again/back; state verb/adjective = degree; yundu-ku-baja is idiomatic. Do not stack verbal -baja with other clitics unless a source line gives the exact form.
• 🔴 Clitic-order tension: Patz §3.10.4 states temporal > EMPH1-3 > -ji, but ex.630 has ngayu-ji-ku-lu. Until this is reconciled, avoid productive new -ji + emphasis stacks.
• 🟢 Duplicate gate: the bank script rejected three exact source/example surfaces already in the corpus: Mayi-ngarr nuka!, Nuka-ngarr!, and Kanbal bubu yala-rrku. Controlled variants were banked instead.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 132 stored its source pass, duplicate replacements, rejected-risk decisions, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-132-clitics-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6697; batch 132 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 10 clitic/source-log rows.

Batch-133 — plants, trees, bark, leaves, roots, vines, and plant materials (LEXICAL)

Verified flora/material inventory: juku tree/wood/splinter · birra leaf/lungs · dakil branch/arm/wing · dakil-dakil branches · nganka flower/blossom · diburr seed/egg · ngara root · dingal tree base · dimbir hollow trunk · dumbul bark/hard covering · dubal bark in Patz text 51 · jalban tree top · kabal Leichhardt-tree fruit · warrmba-bunga-l uncover/find · buyku paperbark · wanjakan ti tree · warrur tree bark usable as vine/fishnet material · jaba stick/sapling/post · jujabala ironwood · nganjirr grass tree · mawar lawyer-cane vine · waji-waji stinging vine · kunjarri palm · duwar black palm · dulmbil umbrella palm · wawuburra cottontree · bilar candlenut tree/nut · yarun black wattle · yalngkal white wattle · yumu bottlebrush tree.

• ⭐ Plant-part LOC vs ABL: Patz ex.524-525 is now operational law. Use juku-ngu for parts/fruit on the tree and juku-muny for parts/fruit from the tree.
• ⭐ juku scope: juku covers tree/wood/splinter. Do not invent separate English tree/timber/wood words when juku is the attested generic.
• 🔴 dumbul / dubal bark split: dictionary/Patz ex.526 supports dumbul for bark/hard covering/crust/shell; Patz text 51 uses dubal for bark in the ground-oven passage. Keep both source-labelled; do not silently normalize one to the other.
• 🔴 diburr context: diburr is seed in plant frames and egg in animal frames. A tree-source frame disambiguates; do not blindly translate every diburr as egg.
• 🔴 ngara context: ngara is plant root here. Keep it separate from ngara-l set up/build camp and the old wrong-sense listen/hear drift.
• 🔴 warrur / warru: warrur is tree bark used as vine/fishnet material; warru is young man. Do not let the near spelling collapse the senses.
• 🔴 jujabala / jujubala spelling tension: the dictionary headword is jujabala ironwood; earlier prose and living-book examples sometimes show jujubala. Batch 133 used dictionary jujabala and logs the variant for later reconciliation.
• 🟢 No buri: fire/firewood remains baya; plant fire rows use waju-l burn/light.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 133 stored its source pass, source-tension decisions, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-133-plants-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6747; batch 133 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 30 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-134 — noun-phrase structure (CONSTRUCTION); source-sensitive NP decisions

Verified construction anchors: mayi wukay plant-food + hairy yam · minya ngangkin meat + echidna · juku buyku tree + paperbark · yinya karrkay / karrkay yinya demonstrative position with one noun · wanya warru human interrogative+noun · wanyu minya what+noun · bula ngamu, jana bama, nyulu yinya pronoun apposition · dubal murru-murru rough bark · jambul kaya kuli-ji quantifier/head/comitative-modifier order · badur ngamu-mu, ngayku bayan, kalka jirakal dingkar-amu possessive order · nyulu mara, kuyu biji, maral-anda jina-nga inalienable apposition.

• ⭐ Case agreement rule recorded: all non-possessive NP constituents agree in case, including demonstrative+noun+ adjective ERG rows such as Yinya-ngka kubarr-angka yalbay-ngka .... Possessives are the explicit continuous-NP exception.
• ⭐ Classifier caution: mayi and minya are safe frequent classifying generics. juku buyku is source-attested, but juku should not be generalized into arbitrary species-classifier rows without a source-shaped reason.
• ⭐ Interrogative boundary: batch 134 used directly attested wanya warru and wanyu minya style rows. It did not add "what/which dog?" because non-human animate interrogative choice needs tighter source control.
• 🔴 dubal remains source-labelled. Batch 134 uses dubal murru-murru because Patz 4.1.1 gives that NP. This does not undo the Batch-133 ruling: generic bark should still prefer dumbul/julkun/ngangkurr unless citing a specific dubal source passage.
• 🔴 junka-ji / junkurr-ji tension: Patz 4.1.1 has the descriptive NP glossed with junka-ji; the dictionary and broader corpus support junkurr strength and junkurr-ji strong. Batch 134 used junkurr-ji and logged the source tension. Do not introduce bare junka as a free headword until reconciled.
• 🔴 Plural possessive pronouns still avoided. Rule 92 uses ngayku, yunu, and nyungu-style singular possessive logic only; plural possessive pronoun cells remain source/OCR watchlist material.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 134 stored the expanded source pass, row-family design, rejected-risk decisions, lint/close/ export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-134-noun-phrase-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6797; batch 134 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 21 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-135 — movement, path-following, return, carrying, and travel (LEXICAL)

Verified motion/travel inventory: kada-y come/arrive toward a goal · dunga-y go/participant-perspective motion · kankada-y keep coming · jilba-dunga-y walk/go walkabout · warri run · wanarri-y keep running/run on · kurrkal-warri go by a shortcut · juru-kulbaway walk single file · wukurril follow · kangal chase · nyunbay return/turn back · wundil bring/take · jarrakulbal carry · barrmal escort/take a person somewhere · walal enter/go into · wandil get up/come out/move away · dakal climb · jalamal jump/hop/skip/get out of vehicle or boat · kala-jalamal jump over · daray fall · daray-manil drop/cause to fall · jarmbil-jarmbil drift/wash away · mariji-y swim through/across water · mara-warri crawl · marra-warri fly · maku-warri go to meet someone · maku-wukurril follow to meet someone.

• ⭐ kada-y / dunga-y is a discourse-perspective contrast. Patz 5.5.1 says kada-y is goal/arrival perspective, while dunga-y is departure or participant-perspective motion. Do not reduce the contrast to English "come" vs "go".
• ⭐ Text 51 is the safe travel template. Source-shaped rows include west/source ABL, river LOC goal, up/down adverbs, kankada-y, dog-following with wukurril, repeated warri-ny, and mountain-top arrival.
• ⭐ barrmal is person-escort, not generic carrying. The source example is ngayu jinkurr barrman kaminda. Use jarrakulbal for physical carrying and wundil for broad bring/take.
• ⭐ wandil remains valid. Earlier watchlist caution against wandi-l is retired; dictionary and Patz support get up, move out of the way, come out.
• ⭐ jana-nka 3pl-DAT is attested. It is allowed in meet/for-them style contexts; batch 135 checked Patz text evidence before retaining it.
• 🔴 No productive baral rows yet. The road/path conflict remains unresolved in the living books. Batch 135 avoided new baral road/path sentences and used source-shaped route terms or cautious jina track/path contexts instead.
• 🔴 buwun boat needs a source note. The dictionary entry is needs-review/loan-shaped, but Patz has boat uses including Ngayu buwun-ji dunga-ny and boat-source frames. It is usable when source-labelled; do not erase the dictionary tension.
• 🔴 jarmbil-jarmbil is source-attested, not a free reduplication template. Use it for drifting/washing away, especially boat/water frames, but do not generalize the pattern to unrelated verbs.
• 🔴 Crawl/fly minimal pair: mara-warri crawl (single r after ma) vs marra-warri fly (double rr). Keep the spelling contrast visible in examples and notes.
• 🔴 Vehicle-loan restraint: Patz has car/truck/motorcar travel material, but batch 135 deliberately deferred a loan register batch. Do not add random drive/car rows into ordinary motion coverage.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 135 stored the source pass, additional dictionary audit, row-family design, rejected-risk decisions, pre-close lint, five-lens close, export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-135-motion-travel-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6847; batch 135 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 14 lessons, and 40 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-136 — motion case-frame alternations (CONSTRUCTION)

Verified construction inventory: LOC/allative goal (wawubaja-nga, bayan-ba, madja-nga, juku-ngu) · ABL source -muny (wawubaja-muny, madja-muny, bayan-muny, juku-muny) · PERL traversal -burr (wawubaja-burr, madja-burr, jikan-burr, bana-burr) · COMIT accompaniment/equipment -ji/-nji/-unji (kaya-nji, kalka-ji, jawun-unji, mayi-ji) · PRIV absence -kari (kaya-kari, kalka-kari, jawun-kari, mayi-kari) · ABESS fixed vantage/source -mundu (wangkar-mundu, badabada-mundu) · purposive -nka after a motion goal · DAT transfer/ escort goals (bayan-ka, bana-ka) · LOC impact goal (jina-nga) · motion -baja back/again/on-again.

• ⭐ LOC/allative goal pinned: ordinary "to river/house/scrub/tree" motion uses LOC/allative, not a new invented directional suffix. Safe frames: wawubaja-nga dungan, bayan-ba walan, madja-nga walan, juku-ngu dakan.
• ⭐ ABL source pinned: -muny marks the place moved out of/from. Batch 136 contrasts wawubaja-nga vs wawubaja-muny, madja-nga vs madja-muny, and bayan-ba vs bayan-muny.
• ⭐ PERL traversal pinned: -burr marks path-through/across in the training convention used here: wawubaja-burr marijin, madja-burr dungan, bana-burr marra-warrin.
• ⭐ COMIT / PRIV / ABESS split: COMIT = with/having; PRIV = without/lacking; ABESS = fixed vantage/source. Do not use -mundu to mean "without", and do not use -kari to mean "from".
• ⭐ Goal plus purpose: a row may have a LOC place goal and a purposive verb complement: wawubaja-nga dungan kuyu dama-nka. The place is not DAT; the purpose is the verb stem plus -nka.
• ⭐ Route-chain pattern: batch 136 stores a safe source-path-goal chain: Nganjin bayan-muny madja-burr wawubaja-nga dungan.
• 🔴 baral remains blocked. Even though road/path examples exist in Patz, the living conflict is still unresolved; batch 136 deliberately avoided productive baral rows.
• 🔴 Vehicle loans still deferred. Do not use car/truck/motorcar travel rows unless a future batch explicitly targets that register and cites Patz travel-text evidence.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 136 stored the source pass, authoring constraints, rejected-risk decisions, pre-close lint, five-lens close, export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-136-motion-case-frames-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6897; batch 136 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 16 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-137 — handling, placement, transfer, and manipulation verbs (LEXICAL)

Verified handling inventory: mani-l get/take · bawa-l leave/quit · yijarri-l put/place · jurrnga-l push · kulba-l pull/lift · kaja-l tie · kuna-bunga-l join/tie something to something · muru-bunga-l put things together · daji-l give · wundi-l bring/take · karrba-l catch/grab/touch · jarrakulba-l carry · yilba-l throw · muja-l collect/gather · wulji-l empty/bail out · yaka-l cut · dumbarril break/tear/rip · walnga-l open/wake/take clothes off · nanda-l close/shut/bury · buyandi-l put in container · yanday-bunga-l prepare/get ready.

• ⭐ dajil recipient frame is LOC:pt in the checked examples. Batch 137 used karrkay-anda, maral-anda, and ngamu-ndu style recipients rather than forcing an English "to" pattern into an unsupported case.
• ⭐ manil, bawal, and yijarril are grammar-attested. Safe anchors include kuyu mani-ny, kulji mani-ny, text-51 fruit-taking, kaya bawa-ny, kulji ... yijarri-ny, and kurrma-nga yijarri-nya minya.
• ⭐ Placement remains local-case shaped. Batch 137 used bubu-ngu, kurrma-nga, kulji-nga, and kurmun-ba placement/container frames rather than inventing a new directional or applicative pattern.
• ⭐ walngal is polysemous and object-sensitive. The batch separated bag-opening, waking a child, and taking off clothes. Do not collapse all of these into a free English "open" template.
• ⭐ mujal has both dictionary and Patz support. Ngayu baya mujan and mukirr muja-l-muja-ny anchor the collect/ gather rows.
• 🔴 Loan-heavy dictionary examples were rejected. Table, gate, bucket, cassette, torch, brake, truck, and motorcar were not promoted into general handling rows. A future loan-register batch may cite them deliberately; do not scatter them into ordinary lexical coverage.
• 🔴 buyandi-l must stay container-literal until more evidence is gathered. Batch 137 used mayi kurmun-ba buyandin; do not generalize it to abstract "put into a state" meanings.
• 🔴 yakal remains simple and concrete. The checked rows use meat/fish cutting only. Do not build a broad cutting/ chopping derivational family from the terse dictionary example.
• 🔴 Analysis correction: the surface dumbarrin is analysed as dumbarri-ny. A pre-close manual review fixed rows 38-40 before acceptance; do not copy an unsegmented dumbarriny analysis.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 137 stored the source pass, authoring constraints, rejected-risk decisions, the manual dumbarrin correction, pre-close lint, five-lens close, export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-137-handling-transfer-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6947; batch 137 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 21 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-138 — handling argument structure and case-frame alternations (CONSTRUCTION)

Verified construction inventory: handling ERG/ABS transitives · nominative pronoun A · O/LOC/recipient fronting · LOC placement/container targets · dajil LOC:pt recipient · dajil possessive-object giving · instrumental implements naybu-bu, kulji-bu, karra-bu · kari predicate vs subject scope · topic passive mani-ji-ny, karrba-ji-ny · agentless passive/state yaka-ji-ny, nanda-ji-y · reflexive/instrument yaka-ji-ny, kaja-ji-ny · same-object handling chains.

• ⭐ dajil has two distinct source-backed give frames. LOC:pt recipient is normal (ngamu-ndu, dingkar-anda, karrkay-anda, jalbu-ndu), while Ngayu ngamu-mu mayi dajin is a possessive NP in O function, not a generic possessive-as-goal rule.
• ⭐ Instrumental implements are not agents. naybu-bu, kulji-bu, and karra-bu remain INST implements even when English translations say "with/by".
• ⭐ Fronting does not license case changes. Kalka dingkar-angka manin, Bubu-ngu ... yijarrin, and Jalbu-ndu jana kambi dajin are word-order/highlighting rows; the case frame remains the same.
• ⭐ -ji- voice rows are source-shaped only. Safe anchors are manijin, karrbajin, yakajin, nandaji, and reflexive/instrument yakajin/kajajin. Do not freely build passive forms for every handling verb.
• 🔴 nanda-ji-y surface caution: write nandaji, not nandajiy. Lint caught and corrected this before close.
• 🔴 No productive antipassive expansion from this batch. The rule was reviewed, but speculative handling forms such as broad muja-n-muja-ji-ny were deliberately deferred.
• 🔴 Loan-source restraint continues. Patz and the dictionary contain useful loan-object examples, but batch 138 did not promote table, gate, bucket, cassette, torch, brake, truck, motorcar, or store into default training rows.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 138 stored the source pass, authoring constraints, rejected-risk decisions, the pre-close nandaji correction, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-138-handling-caseframes-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 6997; batch 138 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 15 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-139 — perception, attention, searching, and finding verbs (LEXICAL)

Verified perception/search inventory: nyaji-l perceive/see/hear · milka-bu nyaji-l hear · milka-janay listen/obey · milka-kari cannot hear/deaf · milka dudu deaf/stubborn · miyil-janay look/watch · miyil-dandi stare/look hard · manubu-damal watch/guard · warringal observe · walu-wukurril look around · kurrka-nyaji-ji look back · binal know · milka-dalkay remember · milka-wulay forget/forgive · milkabu manil remember/recollect · nubil seek/look for · nubiji be looked for/be lost · nubi-manil lose · warrmba-bungal find (Yalanji) · babal try/taste · nyumal smell/taste · jila smell · nganjay no-good/bad smell · nganja-burra bad taste.

• ⭐ nyajil is general perception, not just English "see". Use milkabu nyajil when the row must mean hearing.
• ⭐ Ear and eye compounds stay distinct. milka-janay listen/obey is not miyil-janay look/watch.
• ⭐ Search/find/lose split: nubil seek, nubiji be lost, nubi-manil lose, warrmba-bungal find. Keep all four apart in future batches.
• ⭐ Smell/taste split: babal try/taste, nyumal smell/taste, nganjay bad smell/no-good, and nganja-burra bad taste are separate entries, even when English glosses overlap.
• 🔴 ngara remains blocked for hear/listen. Do not revive it from English memory; use nyajil, milkabu nyajil, or milka-janay.
• 🔴 No Nyungkul find form by default. ngunnga-bungal is listed as the Nyungkul equivalent of Yalanji warrmba-bungal; batch 139 used Yalanji only.
• 🔴 No inanimate potent-dative analogy. A draft kalka-nka milka-wulan was rejected during manual review; accepted row uses animate karrkay-nka.
• 🔴 Deferred still: exact Ah/Yah attention interjections and nyungun-bungal recognise rows need a deliberate future audit before banking.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 139 stored the source pass, duplicate-check replacements, authoring constraints, the kalka-nka rejection, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-139-perception-search-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7047; batch 139 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 24 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-140 — perception/cognition complement and simultaneous-clause frames (CONSTRUCTION)

Verified construction/lexeme inventory: nyaji-l perception main verb · simultaneous -nyV · baka-l-baka-nya · dama-l-dama-nya · nuka-nuka-ji-nya · wulji-l-wulji-nya · wukurri-l-wukurri-nya · bundanda-nya-mun-bu · janjana-nya-mun-du · binal + PURP · binal-kari + DAT · wawu + PURP · babal + PURP · milka-wulay + PURP · binalku + PURP · binal-bungal teach + PURP · kunjaji-y ask for · walngkurriji-y pester for · babaji-y ask about · balka-l directive addressee DAT + PURP.

• ⭐ Simultaneous -nyV is temporal, not a free relative-clause calque. Batch 140 keeps Patz-style overlap: karrkay nyaji-l-nyaji-n, bambayal baka-l-baka-nya; nyulu nyaji-l-nyaji-n, dingkar-angka bana wulji-l-wulji-nya buwun-muny.
• ⭐ Reduplicated l-conjugation stems keep -l. Use baka-l-baka-nya, dama-l-dama-nya, wukurri-l-wukurri-nya, not bare copied stems.
• ⭐ warri-y surface is warri. Lint caught draft warriy in rows 22/24; the accepted rows use Jana warri ... while analysis records warri-y.
• ⭐ Fixed communication stems are intransitive. babaji-y, kunjaji-y, and walngkurriji-y take an ABS/S actor, a LOC person addressed, and a DAT topic/request: Jalbu ngayku-ndu mayi-ka kunjajin, Karrkay yaba-nda mayi-ka walngkurrijin, Jalbu yaba-nda babajin makarr-ka.
• ⭐ balka-l directive addressee is DAT. Safe frame: Mukul-dingkar-angka karrkay-nka balkan, janka bunda-nka.
• ⭐ Dillybag weaving source tightened. Use grammar-backed balji wukurri-l (balji wukurri-l-wukurri-nya in simultaneous SUB) rather than uncertain jaba-l weave wording.
• 🔴 Do not reintroduce ERG actors for babaji-y. A draft Karrkay-ngku ... babajin / Jalbu-ngku ... babajin was rejected in manual review; the actor is S/ABS.
• 🔴 Do not use ngara for hearing in these frames. Rule 97 remains in force: perception/hearing rows use nyaji-l or milkabu nyaji-l.
• 🔴 Do not generalize -mun-bu/-mun-du. They are valuable source-shaped examples, not a license to case-mark every subordinate event.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 140 stored the source pass, four duplicate replacements, the warri lint correction, the babaji-y ABS-actor correction, the weaving correction, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-140-perception-complement-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7097; batch 140 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 12 lessons, and 20 lexeme/source-log rows.

Batch-141 — social relations, taboo, truth, and authority lexicon (LEXICAL)

Verified inventory: jawun friend/relation · bangunji cousin · banji actual brother-/sister-in-law · warrin actual sister-/brother-in-law · biwul mother-in-law · ngalayin father-in-law/son-in-law · makuku-bawal avoid someone/change direction to avoid meeting · maja boss (loan from "master") · yalaku custom/like/way · mandi moiety/subsection · dabu dabu moiety/bee · walarr walarr moiety/beard/bee · mulkal-mulkal totem · yirmbal Yalanji taboo/story place · bubu yirmbal taboo place · ngalba taboo substitute name · burri name/corroboree song · dalki-l give a name/call by name · manubaja truth · manubaja-bunga-l believe · jurril lie/untruth · warmbiji-y lie/prevaricate · jurril-bunga-l trick by lying · yalakay astonishment/"is it true?" interjection · nyuya-l blame/accuse · murru-kanga-l scold/growl someone · murru-kaday become ashamed/shy · milka-murruji ashamed/guilty · murru-kaday-mani-l shame someone · balu desist/give-up/refrain/disapproval · kanyil curse song · kanyil badi sing a curse song · yinil afraid + DAT complement.

• ⭐ mandi allowed, but the conflict is logged. Older errata line 262 said no native word for moiety and suggested bama-jambul; dictionary entry 17718 and later living-book work support mandi "moiety or subsection". Batch 141 uses mandi and records the source-priority decision in process_events.
• ⭐ yirmbal, not jabul, for Yalanji taboo rows. jabul remains the Nyungkul equivalent; do not let it enter Yalanji-controlled rows by English "taboo" pressure.
• ⭐ ngalba is a substitute name, not the original name. Use it only in name-avoidance/taboo contexts.
• ⭐ burri is a noun; dalki-l is the naming verb. Continue to reject phantom burri-l/burri-ny naming verbs.
• ⭐ yalakay retains final y. It is an interjection/source question frame, not a y-conjugation verb. Do not write Yalaka.
• ⭐ balu is not simple negation. It encodes desist/give-up/refrain/disapproval and differs from both kari and wawu-kari.
• ⭐ kanyil badi is the source phrase. Keep badi-y song/cry syntax; do not force an ERG subject just because the English has "sing a curse song".
• 🔴 No English abstraction imports. Batch 141 explicitly rejected unsupported words/rows for "respect", "permission", "promise", generic "authority", and broad "customary law". Rephrase through attested yalaku, kuku, maja, balu, milka-murruji, murru-kaday, nyuyal, or source-shaped speech predicates only when the source allows it.
• 🔴 biwul homonym discipline. In social rows, biwul is mother-in-law; black-snake rows must be separately signalled if ever used.
• 🔴 mulkal-mulkal polysemy. Batch 141 licenses only the totem sense. Fighting-without-reason/spirit-being/story senses remain source-sensitive.
• 🔴 murru-kangal type-label tension. The dictionary labels it intransitive but glosses "scold/growl someone"; Patz text supports an object. Use source-shaped scold-someone rows, and log the tension when extending.
• 🟢 Process ledger introduced. synthetic.db now has process_events, initialized by batch_scripts/process_ledger.py. Future batches should store source checks, conflict decisions, correction decisions, command outputs, close evidence, and live-doc verification there as well as in markdown process logs.
• 🟢 Process log: batch 141 stored the source pass, mandi conflict decision, rejected abstraction list, row 22 analysis correction (taboo-? -> taboo-source.clitic), lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-141-social-law-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7147; batch 141 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 15 lessons, 33 lexeme/source-log rows, and 14 process-event rows.

Batch-142 - direct speech and reporting frames (CONSTRUCTION)

Verified construction/lexeme inventory: balka-l say/tell/speak; yalama-l say/do; babaji-y ask; yirrka-y shout/cry out/call; kunja-l call/summon/invite; yuwu yes; kari no/not; yalada alright/settled; bunda-y sit/stay imperative; dunga-y go imperative/nonpast; kada-y come imperative/nonpast; nuka eat imperative; daka-l climb nonpast; juwal digging stick; dama spear imperative; manyarr wife; wulbuman old woman; yinduy one/one person; wanyu-nguy what kind.

• Direct quote frame. Use REPORTING_CLAUSE: "QUOTE"; do not add a complementizer for English "that".
• balka-l "say to" addressee = LOC:pt in these direct-reporting rows. Safe examples: karrkay-anda balkan, ngamu-ndu balkan, dingkar-anda balkan, babi-nda balkan. Avoid bare ABS addressee in this sense because it risks the "make" reading.
• babaji-y direct-question frame remains fixed-intransitive. Actor ABS/S, person asked LOC, topic DAT where overt: Karrkay ngamu-ndu babajin: "Yundu mayi-ka wawu?".
• yalama-l guard. yalama-l is valid as "say/do" reporting in this batch. It is still not an "answer", "wait", or "obey" verb.
• Short quoted replies are lexicalized discourse material. Yuwu, Kari, and Yalada can stand inside quotes; no separate answer verb is needed.
• yirrka-y vs kunja-l. yirrka-y cry out keeps actor ABS/S and addressee LOC. kunja-l call/summon can be transitive with ERG A and the called person/animal as object.
• Medial report is source-backed. Quote + reporting verb + quote continuation is licensed by the appendix text: "Bunda-y," yalaman, "yubal, yinyay bunda-y!".
• Do not turn this into another Rule 66 question batch. Quoted questions are included only to teach reporting frames after babaji-y.
• No model-output authority. A noisy search hit generated Bible/model artifacts during source exploration; these were explicitly excluded as authorities. Batch 142 source authority is appendix-text extraction plus living books.
• Process log: batch 142 stored the source pass, prior-batch scope decision, bank/lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-142-direct-speech-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7197; batch 142 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 15 lessons, 19 lexeme/source-log rows, and 10 process-event rows including live-doc verification.

Batch-143 - health, sickness, injury, soreness, healing, and recovery lexicon (LEXICAL)

Verified inventory: bambay sick; bambay-ma-l become/fall sick; bambay-bunga-l make sick; ngulkurr good/well; ngulkurr-ma-l get well/better; kakawarri well/healed; kakawarri-ma-l get well; kakawarri-bunga-l heal; ngiki cold/cough/chest complaint; ngikiji have a cold/chest complaint; yangka green ant; kalbal remedy; dukunjaka bush medicine; bangkan root used as medicine for sores; baji sore; kaka sore/achey/pain; bajaybajay painful; bangkarr body/flesh; dukul head; baykal transitive bite and intransitive ache/pain; mili stinging tree/jellyfish; wayjul burn/cook; wayjuji be burnt/burn oneself; yakal cut; naybu knife (loan); mula blood; mula-kanga-l induce bleeding; julurril wash something; kalji-l vomit; wawu-wula-y exhausted/thirsty/tired; dakwuy hungry.

• baykal duplicate entry is real and contrastive. Keep both senses but separate by frame: transitive bite (Kaya-ngka karrkay baykan, Jarba-bu nyunguny baykan) versus intransitive/body-part ache (Ngayu dukul baykal). Do not create a hand synonym table; argument structure is the disambiguator.
• bajaybajay is a solid dictionary headword. It triggered the productive-reduplication lint and was added to SOLID_REDUP only after source verification. Do not respell it bajay-bajay in the elder surface just to satisfy a mechanical check.
• dukul, not source typo-like dukal, for head. The dictionary headword is dukul; the baykal ache example's dukal shape is treated as a source/OCR typo in this corpus.
• Healing guard. kakawarri-ma-l get well and kakawarri-bunga-l heal are licensed by living-book/source work. warmba remains blocked as a heal word.
• Remedy specificity. kalbal is remedy/treatment, especially the green-ant mixture for chest sickness/colds. dukunjaka is bush medicine. bangkan is a root for sores. Do not flatten these into a single modern "medicine" word, and do not import English medicine/hospital unless a future source explicitly requires a loan.
• Green ant treatment. yangka is source-backed for cold/cough treatment: break up/eat green ants, or give green ants to a child with ngiki-ji.
• kalbal vs kalbali. kalbal remedy is now repeatedly vindicated; kalbali tall is unrelated.
• Bleeding causative. Patz explicitly gives mula-kanga-l and rejects mula-bunga-l. This is now a lint/review watch item for injury rows.
• Burn frames. mili covers stinging tree and jellyfish. Use mili-bu waju-ny for transitive/source burn and mili-bu waju-ji-ny for intransitive/passive "was burnt".
• Cut frames. yaka-l cut and yaka-ji-y cut oneself preserve naybu-bu as the instrument when using the knife source frame; mark naybu as an English loan in loans_used.
• Washing frames. julurril is transitive wash something; julurriji is wash oneself. Use julurril for sores and blood.
• No kujil as medical care. Dictionary kujil is keep/hold/wait for. It was source-checked and rejected as a care-for verb for this batch.
• No culturally sensitive doctor rows in ordinary lexical batch. The grammar's rrunyuji/murri medicine-man material was read and logged but not used in the corpus rows.
• No model-output authority. Batch 143 used Patz, dictionary, and living-book checks only.
• Process log: batch 143 stored source pass, risk controls, duplicate replacements, the bajaybajay lint-whitelist decision, bank/lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-143-health-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7247; batch 143 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 16 lessons, 24 lexeme/source-log rows, and 10 process-event rows including live-doc verification.

Batch-144 - body-part and bodily-state argument structure (CONSTRUCTION)

Verified construction/lexeme inventory: dukul head; mungka hair; walu face; miyil eye; milka ear; ngandal mouth; dirra tooth/teeth; mara hand; jina foot/track; durru toe; wakuy arm; muku back; bangkarr body/flesh; bungku knee; yimbi lips; kumbu urine; kuli rage/anger; narri-l step on; yijarril put; yirrbal scratch; jungal paint; murraja stonefish; yaburr shark. The batch also reinforces jarba, mili, baykal, wayjuji, julurril, ngiki, ngulkurr, kaka, bajaybajay, and wawu-wula-y from earlier rules.

• Inalienable apposition is the default for body parts. Use whole + part without possessive -mu: Karrkay mara ngulkurr, Jalbu mungka duna, Karrkay dirra jinbal.
• Same-case locative body parts are verified. Safe frames include karrkay-anda mara-nga, karrkay-anda jina-nga, babi-nda mara-nga, and mukul-jalbu-ndu muku-ngu.
• wakuy-mbu is the y-final locative guard. Do not write wakuy-nga or wakuy-ba in new rows.
• Body-part instruments are source-backed. mara-bu, jina-bu, bungku-bu, milka-bu, miyil-bu, dirra-bu, and ngandal-bu are all allowed in the specific rows logged by Rule 102.
• Reflexive/passive -ji- is construction-sensitive. Safe anchors: yakajin with naybu-bu, baka-jin with affected jina, yirrba-n-yirrba-ji, junka-ji, kunijin, bayka-jin, and waju-jin.
• Chance passive versus kanban. Chance passive keeps agent LOC and no kanban: Warru-nda ngayu jina narri-jin. kanban remains for by-mistake reflexive/transitive-style rows such as Warru kanban wakuy-mbu kunijin.
• Comitative bodily states are not possession. kuli-ji, kumbu-ji, ngiki-ji, and locative ngiki-ji-nda are state/attribute predicates.
• Privative bodily states are state predicates. ngiki-kari, dirra-kari, and milka-kari translate as no-cold, toothless/no teeth, and deaf/cannot hear in the controlled frames.
• dukul, not dukal, remains the head guard. Rule 102 repeats the Batch 143 decision.
• No wubul heart rows. wubul remains dominated by the many/all sense; use bangkarr for body/flesh where the grammar/dictionary supports it.
• No ngara-l hearing. Hearing remains nyaji-l, optionally milka-bu nyaji-l.
• Duplicate correction logged. First bank attempt rejected Yinya kaya kuli-ji as a duplicate of Batch 129; final row uses Patz-supported Yinya jarba kuli-ji.
• Process log: batch 144 stored source pass, risk controls, duplicate correction, row inventory, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-144-body-state-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7297; batch 144 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 13 lessons, 23 lexeme/source-log rows, and 10 process-event rows including live-doc verification.

Batch-145 - physical properties and material qualities lexicon (LEXICAL)

Verified inventory: yalbay big; buban small amount/short time; kalbay long; yalmbar wide; darra narrow/too small; dubar level/flat place; kambal low level/within reach; dajali deep water; yalkan shallow water; duku bent; dandi hard/tough/healthy/strong; kima soft/weak/sick; kulngkul heavy/pregnant; duna wet; marral dry; julbarr slippery; dirka-dirka smooth; murru-murru lumpy/rough; mumbu dirty/soiled/muddied; dayirr clean/clear/bright; wumbul hot; kiway cold; kiway-kiway cold adjective; jirra burnt/overdone food; kulbul ripe; wandul fat; ngumbu black/dark/charcoal; bingaji light/white-coloured; ngala-ngala red/reddish; ngulkurr good/well/morally good; nganjay no-good/wilted/bad-smell; nganja-burra bad taste/ distasteful; ngulkurrijin beautiful; bala skinny/weak from sickness or not enough food; yaykarr strong/hard/ swift; jalngkun sharp; dudu blunt; jirakal new; Patz rough-bark spelling dubal murru-murru.

• buban scope tightened. Keep it to small amount/short time. Batch 145 uses Ngayu mayi buban wunay, modeled on dictionary ngayu money buban wunay, instead of a generic "small child" row.
• Water-depth scope. dajali = deep water and yalkan = shallow water. They are not free generic adjectives for any deep/shallow object.
• Heavy guard. kulngkul is heavy. niji is not heavy; new property rows should keep the earlier niji watchlist closed.
• Cold guard. kiway/kiway-kiway are cold. kija remains moon/month only.
• Colour guard. The grammar's property-colour inventory is ngumbu, bingaji, ngala-ngala. No green, blue, brown, or purple roots were added. Do not revive warral, wanka, jarrmba, jinbal, or English-colour loans as native colour adjectives without a new source.
• Edge-quality guard. jalngkun is sharp and dudu is blunt. jinbal is fast/quick, not general sharp; jindal is spear or puncture-bite, not straight/right.
• dayirr source guard. dayirr is clean/clear/bright. Batch 145 avoided wungku dayirr as a sun row because wungku is turkey in the dictionary; bright/clear was trained with water and clean-clothes rows instead.
• No-good versus taste. nganjay is no-good/wilted/bad-smell. nganja-burra is bad taste/distasteful. Keep value/ smell and taste separate.
• bala homonym discipline. bala adjective is skinny/weak from sickness or lack of food; bala noun is sugar glider. Context must disambiguate.
• duku caution. The dictionary gloss is bent, but the cited example is body/back-specific (muku-duku). Use it conservatively in new non-body rows.
• Property causatives. mumbu-bunga-l makes clothes dirty; mumbu-kanga-l makes water dirty by disturbance. jirra-bunga-l is overcook/burn food; jirra-kanga-l belongs to fire/temper stirring contexts.
• Duplicate preflight logged. Before banking, exact duplicates were replaced: Kalka kalbay -> Juku kalbay; Kulji dandi -> Dumbul dandi; Bubu julbarr -> Baral julbarr; Mayi nganja-burra -> Yinya mayi nganja-burra.
• Process log: batch 145 stored source pass, risk controls, duplicate preflight corrections, row inventory, lint/ close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-145-physical-properties-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7347; batch 145 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 14 lessons, 39 lexeme/source-log rows, and 10 process-event rows including live-doc verification.

Batch-146 - adjective syntax, degree, comparison, and property change (CONSTRUCTION)

Verified construction inventory: adjective-after-head NP order; quantifier plus adjective NP order; zero-copula adjectival predicates; whole-part apposition; inanimate possessor locative/ablative; jarra- rather/fairly; jarra-ADJ comparison with dative standard; ADJ-bajaku high degree; ADJ-baja-CASE-ku case-slot degree; nuka-ji-y good-to-eat intransitive frame; nganka-ji-maniji-y get flowers; manyarr-bunga-l make wife/marry; dayirr-bunga-l make clean; property inchoative -ma-l; state causative -bunga-l.

• Adjectives follow the head. Safe patterns: bayan yalbay, kalka jirakal, kaya kuli-ji, nganka ngala-ngala, juku yalbay. Do not translate English "big house" as yalbay bayan.
• Quantifier plus adjective NP. With both quantifier and adjective, Patz notes quantifier-before-head tendency: Wubul juku yalbay yinyay janjanay.
• Whole-part modifier scope. Karrkay dukul yalbay kaka means the child's head is big/sore; the adjective after the part modifies the part.
• Inanimate possessor caution. Dumbul marra-nga dandi is source-backed. Patz rejected ablative with this shell/ zamia-nut example, so do not generalize -muny blindly to every inanimate possessor.
• Good-to-eat frame. Mayi yinya-muny juku-muny ngulkurr nuka-ji uses nuka-ji-y (eat-ITR-NONPAST); elder surface drops final -iy.
• jarra- is adjective-bound. Safe rows include jarra-yalbay, jarra-kulbul, jarra-bambay, jarra-minday, jarra-kuli-ji. Do not use jarra- as a general verb adverb without a fresh source audit.
• Comparison standard is DAT. Safe dative standards from batch 146: bulki-ka, ngujay-ngka, karrkay-anka, kalka-ka, kambi-ka, kulji-ka, bana-ka, jikan-ka, minya-ka, bubu-ku.
• -baja-ku, not bare -baja. Rule 104 degree rows use suffixal ADJ-bajaku with analysis ADJ-baja-ku. Separate-word bajaku is not the target construction here.
• Case slot in degree adjectives. If the adjective is case-marked, the case suffix goes between -baja and -ku: junkurr-ji-baja-ngka-ku, bambay-baja-nka-ku.
• Source-spelling normalizations. Patz comparison example has ngawuya; corpus uses dictionary/corpus ngawiya. Patz hungry example has dakuy; corpus uses dictionary/corpus dakwuy.
• Surface final -iy. Analysis jiba-badi-y surfaces as jiba-badi; do not write jiba-badiy or jiba-badi-y in the Kuku field.
• State-change examples kept source-shaped. Yinya mayi ngulkurrman; Nyungu kalka duduman; Dingkar-angka nyungu kalka dudu-bungan; Juma juku ngakun nganka-ji-maniji; Bilngkumu-ngku yinya jalbu manyarr-bungan; Ngamu-ngku kambi dayirr-bungan.
• Duplicate preflight logged. Initial candidates Maral yinilman and Dubu-ngku maral yinil-kangan were rejected as exact Batch 129 duplicates and replaced with direct Patz state-change examples.
• Process log: batch 146 stored source pass, risk controls, duplicate preflight corrections, static degree-token guard, row inventory, lint/close/export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-146-adjective-syntax-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7397; batch 146 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 14 lessons, 22 lexeme/source-log rows, and 10 process-event rows including live-doc verification.

Batch-147 - human qualities, ability, and character/state lexicon (LEXICAL)

Verified source-bounded quality/state inventory: binal, juburr, binal-bajaku, binal-kari, binal-ma-l, binal-bunga-l, mala- expert compounds, mala-nganyi, mala-minya, mala-kuyu, mala-burri, mala-mayi, mala-balji, mala-bulki, kiru-kari, daki-daki, majarr, majamal-majamal, nguju-wuri-y, nganjay, kuli-baka, kuli-ji, manubaja, jurril, warmbiji-y, warmbiji-bama, manubaja-bunga-l, mala-yirrkay, milka-murruji, murru-kaday, murru-kaday-manil, milka-marri, wawumal, wawurr-wawurr, wawurr-wawurr-bunga-l, minday, mukul, warru, waymbul-ku, and baja-burray.

• binal/juburr complement discipline. These are adjectival particles with dative noun complements or purposive verb complements. Safe rows include Ngali binal dama-nka, Karrkay binal balji wukurri-nka, Nyulu dingkar juburr bulki-ka, Karrkay nyiku binal-kari kuku-ku, Ngayu binalmal kuku-ku, and Babi-ngka karrkay binal-bungan mayi waju-nku.
• mala- expert compounds. Use mala- with noun roots: mala-minya, mala-kuyu, mala-burri, mala-mayi, mala-balji, mala-bulki. Do not extend it to arbitrary verb stems without a fresh source. If the expert compound is transitive A, mark ERG: Mala-minya-ngku ngawiya daman, Mala-kuyu-ngku kuyu manin, Mala-burri-ngku wulngku badin, Mukul-jalbu-ngku mayi wajun.
• Lazy/no-good forms. daki-daki is lazy/in the way. majarr, not manjarr, is lazy/no good for hunting or work and applies to dogs and people. wunbu-kari is still not a general lazy word.
• Foolishness and play. kiru-kari is dull/stupid/silly; kiru-kari-ma-l is become stupid. nguju-wuri-y is fool/play around, with elder surface nguju-wuri.
• Truth/lie cluster. Keep manubaja truth, jurril lie/untruth, warmbiji-y lie/prevaricate, warmbiji-bama liar, manubaja-bunga-l believe, and mala-yirrkay confess/tell truth distinct.
• Shame/guilt cluster. Use milka-murruji ashamed/guilty, murru-kaday become ashamed/shy/bashful, and murru-kaday-manil shame someone. Do not introduce bikirr as a shame noun.
• Minday scope. minday includes tame, quiet, brave/not afraid, confident. Batch 147 keeps it source-bounded with the pig tame/not-afraid row.
• Anger/fierceness. kuli-baka is a person always fighting/angry; kuli-ji is angry/wild/fierce/vicious.
• Source-spelling guards. New turtle rows use corpus ngawiya, not Patz ngawuya. Cook/burn past remains wajun, not wajan. The dictionary tired row has jilbamun; batch 147 records the corpus-regular ablative jilba-muny and logs the variation.
• No English abstraction. No broad "personality", "respect", "permission", "authority", "promise", or generic virtue rows were admitted. If a later row needs one of those concepts, reword into source-backed predicates.
• Process log: batch 147 stored source pass, duplicate preflight, ERG tightening, row inventory, under-review lint, five-lens close, post-close lint, export evidence, and live-doc verification trail at synthetic/claude-synthetic-v1-2026-07-02/process_logs/batch-147-human-qualities-process.md.
• Lint GREEN 7447; batch 147 added 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 15 lessons, 25 lexeme/source-log rows, and process-event rows including live-doc verification.