Karri-borlbme Kun-wok

karndayh

karndayh

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English Translation
(Kun-balandaken)
female antilopine kangaroo
Pronunciation
(Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)

gaɳdaɪʔ

Listen for the retroflex nasal (written 'rn' in the orthography) and the final glottal stop— a sudden cut off sound.

The audio (includes a longer text about names for this kangaroo):
http://words.bininjgunwok.org.au/words/karndayh

Morphology
(Karri-wokdjobdjobke)

Notes
(Njalenjale)

You can also form the plural by reduplication karndakarndayh. A young female antilopine is called karndalbburru.

Listen to the text in the accompanying audio. Terah Guymala talks about names for antilopine kangaroos. Here is the transcript and translation:

Karndayh, antilopine wallaroo, daluk karndayh. Gundjeihmi kabirri-yime karndah. Ngad ngarri-yime karndayh karrkakarrkad. Bininj, kalaba, nawu bininj kalaba ngarri-ngeybun, karrkad yerrih.

Karndayh, is the antilopine kangaroo, the female is karndayh. Gundjeihmi people call it garndah. We call it karndayh, we people from the plateau. The male is kalaba, that's the male antilopine kangaroo, that's what we plateau people call it [in Kundedjnjenghmi dialect].

Usage
(Bale kabirri-yime?)

Mak Wurdanke ngarri-nameng, nakka ngarri-bom ngarri-kudjihmeng kunj karndakidj la karndakarndayh.
At Wurdanke we made a fire drive there once and we killed a heap of male and female antilopine kangaroos.

Karndayh, morruyhmorruyh kabine-ngun bakarlbakarl.
The female Antilopine kangaroo and the ring-tailed dragon eat Curcuma australasica (a herb with small tubers).

Date
(Balekeno)
08 Mar 2014