karrmulykuwakalkutransitive verbspear someone or something savagely, forcefullyTjiinya watilu pikalu watjalku, ‘Pitja ngaangka. Nyangka-rnanta karrmulykuwakala kurranytjilpa.’A man wanting to fight might say, ‘Come here and I’ll spear you so savagely that you’ll be seriously wounded.’Tjiinya watilu pitjaanku nyaku papa ngarrirranyangka wakalku. Palunyalu pitjaku tjuma watjanma, ‘Palurumpa-rna pitjaanu nyangu papa ngaa ngarrirranyangka. Palunyalu-rna panykarnu mirrungkultu karrmulykuwakarnu kultu wiitjurrulypa.’A man might come along and see a dingo lying there and spear it. Then he’ll come and tell this story, ‘Oh, I just came along and saw this dingo lying there, so I crept up and speared it forcefully from my woomera. (I got it) right through the chest.’

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