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English Translation (Kun-balandaken) |
place, country, land |
Pronunciation (Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?) |
GOON-bolk
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Morphology (Karri-wokdjobdjobke) |
kun- is the general noun class prefix
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Notes (Njalenjale) |
The spelling in Gundjeihmi is gunbolk. Kunbolk is the Kunwinjku spelling. kun-bolk / gun-bolk belongs to a closed class of nouns that can be incorporated into verb complexes (read the blog post for July 10 if you haven't done so yet). These nouns include body part and landscape terms. As kun-bolk is a landscape term, you can incorporate it into a verb by throwing away the prefix kun- / gun- and just using the stem e.g.: nga-bolknan
Note the four morphemes in this word nga- 'I' (first person singular verb prefix pronoun), -bolk 'place', the verb to look at '-na' and the present/future (or non-past) tense marker '-n' on the verb to see > '-nan' |
Usage (Bale kabirri-yime?) |
W= Kunwinjku, Dj= Gundjeihmi
(ka- / ga- 'it', -bolk 'place', -mak 'good', konda / gubehne 'here'). |
Date (Balekeno) |
27 Jul 2012 |