Word Class: AnaWu
grass, herb (general term for grasses, sedges, and other non-woody terrestrial plants)
Notes: 13.9.4, 18.19.3, 36.1.1, 36.2.1, 59.2.2, 97.4.3, 116.4.3. Opposite: rangag. Cf. -niyn-. As cpd. initial: see =w2aynja-, =lhalwulha-. ma[a-wurraayung NcAnaWu small grass(es). 142.6.5. (Note Pl form -wurraayung, suggesting that ma[a is cryptotypically plural.) ma[a-ngu-[igu NcAnaWu young (green) grass. ([igu raw ) ma[a-lharang NcAnaWu mature (but still green) grass. ma[a-ma[a-yij NAdj having (lots of) grass. 2) freshwater long-tom fish, Strongylura kreffti (swims with long, pointed mouth out of water, perhaps resembling a blade of grass). 59.3.4, 98.6.3, 107.2.2, 108.4.4, 162.17.2. Syn: ngalaji (less common).