pampulkutransitive verb1touch someone or something, feel someone or somethingwith the hand or an object held in the handTjinguru kutjupalu mirrka tjunku wantiku. Ka kutjupalu pitjaku pampulku. Ka muntarnarralku, ‘Munta, ngurrpalu-rna pampurnu. Ngayukulka-tjunyu ngarrirranytjakukantjalu.’Maybe someone will put food down to get later. But another person might touch it. Then she’ll say, ‘Sorry, I touched it unintentionally. I thought it was mine.’Purnungka yirlitjunu pampurnu raapitaku purrmu.She felt in the rabbit’s burrow with a stick and touched the rabbit’s fur.2handle somethingwhen speaking indirectly about many different actionsNgaanya kitaa pampuranytjamaalpa ngayuku ngurrangkakutju ngarrirratjaku. Ka-ya kutjupalu pampuntjmaaltu wantima.This guitar is not to be handled. It’s just to stay in my home. So don’t anyone touch it.3doctor someone, feel someoneof traditional healerWirtapi pampulku yilalku, ka kurrurnpa palyarungurriku.(A traditional healer) feels someone’s back and pulls out (the object), and the person’s spirit gets better.4touch someone with a ceremonial implicationWati kurlunytju pampulku wati purlkanya kutikatitjaku-tjananya.A young man touches the older men so that they’ll take them to a ceremony.Pukurtitjarra wirrtjalku nyinatiku winnyinta. Ka tjinguru watilu minymalu pampuralpi malurrarriku.When a new young man with a hair bun comes and sits down in the smoke, a man or a woman touches him and becomes in a special relationship to him.5brush or graze against someone or somethingKurlarta kultulukutju yarnangu kultu pampura wayirntara yanku tiwa mapunkalku.Just the middle part of the spear might brush against the person’s chest and go past and fall to the ground a long way away.6touch someone or something unlawfullyPampurayilku ngarna raatjunku.A man could touch a girl unlawfully and miss out (on marrying her).Yiwarra ngaawana mapitjanytjamaaltu wantima. Tjinguru-yan ngaawana mapitjanytjalu pampulku. Palunyakutarra wantima.Don’t go on this road. If you go this way you might unlawfully touch (men’s sacred objects). So that doesn’t happen, don’t do that.7drive a vehicleTurakatjirratjalutarrartu panypurangama, ‘Nintipukalu-muntan pampura wirrtjayirni?’Because he wants to drive the truck, someone might keep on scoffing at (the driver), ‘Do you think you’re an expert driver?’8reach a place or a timeWanarnu purti mapampurnu.(The houses) have reached the bush (extended as far as the trees).Nyinangu-rna 11 o’clock pampurnu.I stayed until it was 11 o’clock.Tirtu-rna tjunkula-wanarayilku 3,000-pa pampulku.I’ll keep putting money (in the bank) until it reaches $3,000.

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