| English: do, make, make to do something, cause to be or do, causative |
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Bundjalung:
-ma
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| Part of Speech: suffix |
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| Comment: Suffixed to verb stems, can only be added to an intransitive verb, makes a transitive verb, so any transitive stem must have -li before -ma. |
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Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Holm ; Y:Holm ; M:Liv ma make, cause, cause to be there
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Lower Richmond: Bj:Holm ma-, imp. ma:, term. mani
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South West: Wa:Crowl; We:Crowl; Cas:Smy -m-a
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Condamine Upper Clarence: Gd:Geyt
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Example:
bundjalung: galgirma- (from Ca) English: 'build a canoe, build canoes' |
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Example:
bundjalung: bugalma- (from Ca) English: 'make good, cure, improve' |
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Example:
bundjalung: jangma- (from Ca) English: 'make bad, spoil, ruin' |
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Example:
bundjalung: waybarma- (from Ca) English: 'make camp, build fire' |
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Example:
bundjalung: janbihnyma- (from Ca) English: 'make go, send' |
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Example:
bundjalung: jabihnyma- (from Ca) English: 'make eat, feed' |
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Example:
bundjalung: jamgalma- (from Ca) English: 'make quick hasten' |
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bundjalung: yunama- (from Ca) English: 'make lie, put' |
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bundjalung: jahnama- (from Ca) English: 'make stand, put' |
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Example:
bundjalung: maruganma- (from Ca) English: 'make an initiate, initiate' |
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bundjalung: wayma- (from Ca) English: 'cause to be up, put up' |
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bundjalung: yunama- (from Bj:Hol) English: 'make lie down' |
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Example:
bundjalung: gilama- (from B) English: 'go there' |
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Example:
bundjalung: wahngma- (from B) English: 'to work' |
