Word Class: AnaWu
fire , firewood
Notes: (very common in both senses) 13.30.1, 13.31.1, 16.19.1, 16.22.2, 17.3.6, 40.9.3(firewood), 46.1.2, 95.9.4. Applied to campfires and usually to wildfires in the bush; small brushfires set by people (e.g., in hunting kangaroos) are called wurrg. As cpd. initial replaced by -yiga- (q.v.; contrast semantically unrelated cpd. initial -nguraG-, next entry). For rdp. derivative see nguru-ngura-yij, below. Cf. -lhalng-, lhaangag, wurrg, anig, -lhaj-, -yigi-yigi-j. Verbs related to fire: =na- to burn , =nagi-, =agurrgaynji-, =w2ilngiynja-, =w2i`i`-bu-, =yi-wu-, =ngawa-, =(w1)a`iwa-, =rarrwadawada-, =w2an-bu-, =ralma-, =w1a`ima-. -nguraG- Pref penis. As cpd. initial: see =w2a- to bite , w2ugag, =w1uldha-. Functions as cpd. inltial for nguyi. No semantic connection to ngura (preceding entry).