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Words for Category: Moving

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karta

to kick

kawenda

to crawl

kirrpa

to pull

mutya

to pick up, to take

nyengga

to sit

nyenggina

to sit round

nyerna

to sit, to listen, to hear, to remember

nyetenya

to play, to run around

nyipa

to bury

nyuka-wara

to come

nyuka-yangga

to approach, to come this way

nyuwa-mana

to arrive, to come right here

payika

to get up, to rise in flight, fly

perrəpa

to climb (trees)

perəpa, perəpana

to lose something

pirrityana

to jump

pirrpa

to hop

pirrpula, pirripula

to go hopping along like a kangaroo

putheka

to come in e.g. into a camp.

puyika

to fall down

tarnda

to touch, to push lightly

tuka

to move

tyalputa

to put down

tyerrika

to stand, to stand up

tyilpenda

to bump, to knock

tyindyingana

to shake

tyipa

to float up, to fly (dust)

waletya

to come near, approach

wara

to walk, to come

wariwa

to go away

warəntya

to wade in water

wawa

to follow

wer(ə)ka

to carry

werkuwa

to carry something heavy a long way

werrka

to hurry

wilka

to turn round

wirra

to flow

wirraka

to swim

*wirwa

to climb, to rise

wutha

to put down, to lower to the ground

yangga

to walk

yangguwa

to walk past

yukuwa

to put down (on ground)

yurrma

to slip, to stumble

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