tarrkarringkufromtarrkaintransitive verb1become reduced to bone, become only boneKuka ngaanya tarrkarringu.There’s only bone left of this meat.Kukan ngalangu wiyarnu. Palunyalu-rnin tarrka nintira. Kuka tjingurun ngalkula yilytjantjarra nintinma. Kuka-tjun tarrkarrinyangka nintirnu.You’ve eaten all the meat and then you’re giving me the bone. You should’ve eaten some and given me (a bone) with flesh on it. But now that it’s only bone you’ve given it to me.2become thinWiya, wati ngaanya yarnangu purlkatjanu tarrkarringu.Oh, this man who used to be fat has got thin.See alsonyurrka-nyurrkarringkuMeans the same asmiltjanarriku

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