Karri-borlbme Kun-wok

kunbolk

kunbolk

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English Translation
(Kun-balandaken)
place, country, land
Pronunciation
(Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)

GOON-bolk
If you know IPA: [ gĘŠnbolk ]

Morphology
(Karri-wokdjobdjobke)

kun- is the general noun class prefix
-bolk is the noun stem

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
I am looking at the place. / I'm having a look around.

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
(W) Ka-bolkmak konda.
(Gdj) Ga-bolkmak gubehne.
This is a good place here.

(ka- / ga- 'it', -bolk 'place', -mak 'good', konda / gubehne 'here').

Date
(Balekeno)
27 Jul 2012