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Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-12, 10:00
by księżycowy
ameke-ameke
an important Dreaming site, sacred site
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-13, 23:58
by vijayjohn
yati-wangkamito pray
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 10:35
by księżycowy
ameke-ameke
secret, sacredAnyone wanna start an AAL answer-ask game?
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 17:38
by vijayjohn
Uy, maybe some other time.
jaalyp(a)-wangkamito whisper, speak softly or in an undertone
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 21:06
by 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
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 21:22
by 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:
payarrpahill, mountain
(because you have to shout to communicate across mountains)
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 21:38
by 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
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 22:05
by vijayjohn
Well, I
am a one-pony act since I haven't learned any Iwaidja yet.
Warlpiri:
walyaground, land, country, soil, dirt, sand, earth, world
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 22:10
by księżycowy
Or Arrernte!
Arrernte: alaye
lake
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 22:16
by vijayjohn
That too
Ooh, now I get to use a Warlpiri word I know off the top of my head!
ngapawater
EDIT: "You cannot make another post so soon after your last."
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 22:42
by 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
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-16, 22:56
by vijayjohn
Warlpiri:
karntukafires set beside a person opposite the windbreak
(droughts remind me of wildfires ever since we had one
)
księżycowy wrote: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.
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-17, 21:40
by księżycowy
Arrernte: kwenye-irreme
die down (of a fire), not burn well
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-17, 22:24
by vijayjohn
Warlpiri: marlirri
cold (weather)
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-17, 22:47
by księżycowy
Pitjantjatjara: nyinnga
snow
Finally found a Aboriginal language with a word for snow!
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-18, 1:25
by vijayjohn
Warlpiri:
yajikirimiice cream!
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-18, 20:25
by księżycowy
Arrernte: akaperte akurne
headache
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-19, 0:01
by vijayjohn
Warlpiri: mukarniki-mukarniki
feverish
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-19, 0:18
by księżycowy
Arrernte: anteweke-antewe
feeling like you're going to throw up
Re: Australian Aboriginal Word Game
Posted: 2017-11-19, 4:49
by vijayjohn
Warlpiri: karlti-karlti
sick, vomiting, nausea