dolobbo

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English Translation (Kun-balandaken)	stringybark, bark of Eucalyptus tetradonta
Pronunciation (Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)	dɔlɔpːɔ Make sure you pronounce the long stop represented in the Bininj Kunwok by ʼbbʼ. It sounds like a ʼpʼ with a pause to English speakers. Listen to the audio file: http://words.bininjgunwok.org.au/words/dolobbo
Morphology (Karri-wokdjobdjobke)
Notes (Njalenjale)	There is some variation across the dialect chain: Kunwinjku, Kuninjku, Kundedjnjenghmi: dolobbo Kune: rdarh Kundjeyhmi: an-dah, rdarh, rdah, darah
Usage (Bale kabirri-yime?)	Dolobbo nga-bimbun. I'm going to paint a bark (do a painting on stringybark). Birri-kodbarrebom dolobbo, birri-dakmeng. They made house with stringy bark, they peeled it off the trees. Kuni nga-re rdarh nga-lawkmang. I'm going over there to peel off some stringybark.
Date (Balekeno)	18 Sep 2015

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