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kert-kert

NOONGAR

quick

ENGLISH

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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Gid-Gid : Make haste (Perth Gazette 21/05/1836 by Hon G F Moore (Moore River Locality) and J Drummond.)
gate : quick, speedily (Grey 1839)
Getget; Yabbra. : Speedily (Moore 1842: 160)
Get-get : Quickly (Symmons 1842: 12)
Getget : speedly. (Brady 1845: 21)
Ket-iangul : Come on the running (Ranford, H.S 1875: 146)
kirt-kirt : Quick (Graham (Curr) 1886: 349)
get-get : Come on (Knight Curr 1886: 333)
Beeyagurt : Rapid (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 32)
Gert gert : Fast (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 25)
Gert gert : At once (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 14)
kait : quickly (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Gert gert : Quick, quickly (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 33)
Gert kert : Rapid (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 35)
Gert gert : At once (Kajaman; Bates XII 2B, 11: 19)
Kitt-Kitt : go quickly (W J Rae, Native Vocabulary, 1913.)
keṭ, muṭip, yaṛap : hurry, hurry up! (Douglas 1968: 92)
Keert Arniny : quickly quickly (Davis 1969: 7)
qüert-qüert : quick, at once, now (Von Brandenstein 1988: 82)
kataming : going quickly (Whitehurst 1992: 37)
kert-kert : fast, quick (Dench 1994: 188)
Kil kit : Quickly (Richards 1994: 128)