karukurraadjectivefoul-tasting, brackish, saltyof waterTjiinya yarnangu-ya kutjulpirtu pitjaku kapi tjikilku yarrkalku karukurra. Tjiinyamarntu papa tjinguru karlaya tjarrpangu kapingka palunyangka. Yurna kapingka ngarrima. Tjiinyamarntu kapi yurnarriku yukiri-yukirirriku.Long ago people would come and drink water and taste that it was foul-tasting, because a dingo or maybe an emu had fallen into the water. Something rotten would lie in the water. The water would become rotten and green.Yarnangulu watjalku, ‘Kapi ngaanya karukurra. Kapi palyamunu kumpuwalyku.’A person might say, ‘This water is brackish. It’s bad water and is brackish.’See alsokumpuwalyku

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