Australian Aboriginal Word Game

[księżycowy]

ameke-ameke
an important Dreaming site, sacred site

[vijayjohn]

yati-wangkami
to pray

[księżycowy]

ameke-ameke
secret, sacred

Anyone wanna start an AAL answer-ask game?

[vijayjohn]

Uy, maybe some other time.

jaalyp(a)-wangkami
to whisper, speak softly or in an undertone

[księżycowy]

I'm almost inclinded to do away with the flags in this thread. I mean, it's always the same flag.

Arrernte: TYARLE-IWEME!
Bet you can't guess what that means without looking.
to shout (out), call out

[vijayjohn]

Oh, yeah, I'm inclined to do away with the flags, too. I've been thinking that for a while, actually. Hell, we could even do away with language names as long as it's just the two of us playing with you always posting a word in Arrernte and me always posting another in Warlpiri. And yeah, I guessed the way you wrote it lol.

Warlpiri: payarrpa
hill, mountain
(because you have to shout to communicate across mountains)

[księżycowy]

We could. I just worry that, perchance someone else joins in, would they know what was going on?
Not to mention that I do sometimes do slip in a word of Kaytetye or Western Desert Language. I'm not a one pony act here.

And yeah, I guessed the way you wrote it lol.

Figured.

Arrernte: urterrpe
sandhill, a rise

[vijayjohn]

Well, I am a one-pony act since I haven't learned any Iwaidja yet.

Warlpiri: walya
ground, land, country, soil, dirt, sand, earth, world

[księżycowy]

Or Arrernte!

Arrernte: alaye
lake

[vijayjohn]

That too

Ooh, now I get to use a Warlpiri word I know off the top of my head!

ngapa
water

EDIT: "You cannot make another post so soon after your last."

[księżycowy]

EDIT: "You cannot make another post so soon after your last."

I get that a lot when we play both this and the NAIL word game.

Arrernte: ararrtye
drought, dry conditions

[vijayjohn]

Warlpiri: karntuka
fires set beside a person opposite the windbreak
(droughts remind me of wildfires ever since we had one )

EDIT: "You cannot make another post so soon after your last."

I get that a lot when we play both this and the NAIL word game.

[księżycowy]

Arrernte: kwenye-irreme
die down (of a fire), not burn well

[vijayjohn]

Warlpiri: marlirri
cold (weather)

[księżycowy]

Pitjantjatjara: nyinnga
snow

Finally found a Aboriginal language with a word for snow!

[vijayjohn]

Warlpiri: yajikirimi
ice cream!

[księżycowy]

Arrernte: akaperte akurne
headache

[vijayjohn]

Warlpiri: mukarniki-mukarniki
feverish

[księżycowy]

Arrernte: anteweke-antewe
feeling like you're going to throw up

[vijayjohn]

Warlpiri: karlti-karlti
sick, vomiting, nausea