w2urruj

Word Class: NAdj

human (not animal), Aboriginal (not European)

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Notes: In indefinite or generic sense orten takes Warra class morphology (no rdp.): 4.7.1, 1.8.9, 7.14.6, 15.8.1, 15.13.1, 33.3.5, 17.15.4, 40.15.1. HumSg: wurru-jung. 15.14.3, 45.1.3, 65.8.4. Pl: wurru-wurruj. 4.8.3, 29.6.7, 29.10.2, 33.2.7, 64.4.2. Pl. occasionally wurrujburruj. 14.7.3. Du: wurruj-baa. 13.36.3. With suffix -lhangu the form is wurruj-dhangu (lots of) people . 47.13.7, 100.3.3. This form, and occasionally simple w2urruj, is also attested in sense crowd, large number and in this sense may apply to nonhumans: 13.4.2 (with -lhangu), 13.4.2 and 13.6.3 (without -lhangu), these exx. involving meat ants.