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Hello, I wonder if "medium" could be rendered by adding a word meaning "a little bit" to the adjective, so "a little bit big"?</div>
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<b>To:</b> Harley Dunolly-Lee <harley.dunollylee123@gmail.com><br>
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<div>Hi Harley,</div>
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<div>I suppose the green/plant overlap shouldn't be too bad -- as long as <i>malak</i> can be used at all for something non-plant. If you decide that you need the equivalent for 'blue' in the end, one possibility is to use things that have the colour: e.g.
'sky', or 'river'/'sea', or 'cloud', whatever is most appropriate. I learned this from Kunbarlang, spoken in Arnhem Land. There aren't many words specific to colours at all, but they might say
<i>yimarne kuyunu</i> 'like cloud' for 'blue', or <i>yimarne mulubin</i> 'like blood' for 'red'.</div>
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<div>As for mid-size, that's very tricky, isn't it. The "small-small" as John pointed out is an option, but watch out -- in some languages that might mean 'very small' rather than 'mid-size', so you might want to look for other such reduplicated words in Dja
Dja Wurrung to see which way they tend to be used. I can think of two further alternatives: either to add a word like 'a bit' or 'half-way', or to add a word like 'very' or 'really'. Thus, you'd have 'small' -- 'half-big' -- 'big', or 'not hard' -- 'hard'
-- 'very hard', or similar. I think at least in Woiwurrung there is a word for 'half' (<i>marru</i>?).<br>
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<div>The 'flood' idea is very cool I think, but I don't know what your target is about (the pass--middle--intensive).</div>
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<div dir="auto">I am emailing to ask the following questions. At Dja Dja Wurrung, we are beggining to name things in our data bases such as mapping, tools, administration etc. One of things we wanting to name are the management zones within the Parks areas
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<div dir="auto">The following words are to be translated into Dja Dja Wurrung. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Easy, moderate, hard </div>
<div dir="auto">Small, medium, big</div>
<div dir="auto">Red, blue, green </div>
<div dir="auto">Pass, middile (in-between), intensive</div>
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<div dir="auto">I did some research and some of these words I have found words. I had to search into the English synonyms to get a better idea. However, some of these words overlap each other. Also, blue and green are the same colour in Dja Dja Wurrung and
related languages. I do not want to colonized this way of seeing colours either. </div>
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<div dir="auto">There is word for green, malak but its also the word for green plants like milk thistles or greens. Lol so maybe not the 'green' that was meant to be. </div>
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<div dir="auto">I had a look at the list, and related languages, but I am finding difficulties to express these words. The data is limited and we gave no fluent speakers. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Word for intensive, I have chosen wola-wola 'flood', wherw wola 'rain', because floods can be intensive. </div>
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<div dir="auto">What do the languages you know, speak or work with get around these sorts of things ? </div>
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