Word Detail

(Pres P)

Present participle form (from a base yatha-) used in adjectival function; this and yathangga are used for 'bad' in the Lake Boga material; 'yathang' was known to recent Wembawemba speakers but they preferred to say 'yathaminyuk'; for Stone's [yathunge jah] 'the fog that killed see kuwa 'fog'.

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