night These are variant forms of the previously 



recorded Madtntadi word, bHit\8vda, huh^i. i his 



whole group of Madimadi forms is cognate with 

 the Djadjala bU{tthj and Wcmberwcmba /.„.,„, 

 "night", and shows the usual loss of / in Madi^ 

 madi. 



duni 

 ganag/tl 



the wood-pecker or hrown tree-creeper. It too 

 was u kind of news-bird: it could understand 

 what people were saying and would repeat it 

 elsewhere. 



shrimp. 



from that one. Like other adverbs of time and 

 place innu "over there, not far away" must have 

 corresponded to a demonstrative pronoun: gOr^ 

 is the ablative of such a pronoun ffiiu. 



!>cwada to overtake. 



v«n<yi magpie. Cf. Djadjala gwn# Wembawemba Kun<- 



lug. 



jilelilburi a bird "almost the same as the Willie Wagtail 



jilelbuh (shortened form) (diri-din) ," Probably the restless flycatcher. 



-ma enclitic particle, used for emphasis, probably very 



much like the Jodajoda -ma and the Wemba- 

 wemba and Djadjala -mill which generally fol- 

 lowed the imperative and adverbs of place: Madi- 

 madi mwi-iiiu "close by (indeed)" and nwila- 

 nui "not (indeed)" (Cf. also the fixed locution 

 madawa "oh dont" which was previously 

 attested). 



wm»iduda 



wuwal 



wcgada 



winmuru 



to rise. "I hi$ is a variant form for wuiwilnda "to 

 rise", and it shows that Madimadi resembled 

 Wembawemba in the optional use of a frequen- 

 tative suf.ix. -tdu alongside particularly when 

 the \erhal root ended in a labial consonant (e.g., 

 Wembawemba guhila, gubula "to drink"). 



night hawk, 

 a long way off. 



this plant with edible leaves has now been iden- 

 tified by Jack Long as the "sow-thistle" (a native 

 species of Sanchus"). 



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