Kunred (places)
Yimayhyirud

Hear the pronunciation, spoken by Ananais Jawulba

Yimayhyirud is a duwa moiety place near Mumeka on the Liverpool River, which flows all the way to Maningrida. Yimayhyirud belongs to the Kurulk clan. There is a grove of Corypha palms there, on the river. They grow and once they flower, they die. The flowers produce an edible fruit. We pound them and throw away the seed and they are quite delicious. We squeeze a handful of the pounded fruit and then we chew on it. Adults and children like to eat it. The Old People ate it, the Ancestors. Those palm tree fruits and the other bush foods are our history – things like Cayratia tubers, long yams, cheeky yams, Ipomoea tubers, water lily corms, Vigna vexillata tubers, Hypoxis nervosa tubers, Triglochin dubia tubers.

Yimayhyirud kubolkduwa kamhre Mumekabeh manekke yoh Korlng Karri kamhre mane mankabo. Mankabo Manawukan kare. Kurlwirri kumekke kadjordme. Yo kakaberrkdi bonj wanjh djordminj yakworrinj. Kakarrme manme flower. Ngarridjuyme yoh, mane murrngno, dayno, makkan kare ngarriwe, la njamedno ngarringun, manmanjmak. Ngarridunme ngarringun ngarrinjamhminjamh ngarringun wurdurd ngarridjalngun dabborrabbolk warridj mak. Maneh kobohbanj birringuneng. Kurlwirri mankodbe name birringuneng history la karrbarda, manyawok, manngalinj, burdbarrk, bulkurd, mandjay, manbidwok.

– John Mawurndjul, with translation by Murray Garde