Karri-borlbme Kun-wok

manme

manme

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English Translation
(Kun-balandaken)
food
Pronunciation
(Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)

munn-mair
If you know IPA [manmɛ]
In Gundjeihmi dialect, just drop off the initial nasal to give anme [anmɛ].

Morphology
(Karri-wokdjobdjobke)

man- is the vegetal noun class prefix and the stem is -me

Notes
(Njalenjale)

Nouns that have a man- class prefix usually are qualified by adjectives that must also have a man- class prefix. Thus:
man-me man-wern 'a lot of food' where -wern is the adjective meaning 'many'.

However, remembering our last word man-djewk, this rule does not always apply. A very small number of words, such as man-djewk 'rain', have a different agreement class. In the case of man-djewk the agreement class is na-. Thus:

man-djewk na-kimuk 'heavy rain' (-kimuk usually equates with the English word 'big')
but
man-me man-wern 'a lot of food'

In Gundjeihmi where the prefix is an-, the word for food thus is an-me (again, the hyphens are used here just as a learning device to show the morphemes—meaningful parts of words)

Usage
(Bale kabirri-yime?)

Lambalk kangun kurrkno anbalarra, ngurrurdu mak kangun manme.

The sugar-glider possum eats the sap of the Owenia vernicosa tree and emus also eat the fruit.

Manimunak kangun kundjelk ba bu kadjobdjobke manbu manme bedberre yiman mankuladj.

Magpie geese eat gravel so that they can break down their food such as spike rush corms.

Date
(Balekeno)
08 Jul 2012