A) A heavy wooden container for pounding boiled cassava (maniok) to make fufu, a staple food in Congo. Perp: BranShea---- Voted for by: zmjezhd and olly
B) Wagiman (also spelled Wageman, Wakiman, Wogiman) An endangered language, about to be lost, as the younger generation of the Wagiman people do not speak or even understand it. Perp: found in
http://www.onelook.com/ but also its own dictionary of * Wagiman Language and of course reference in Wikipedia.
C) Anglicized version of an Australian aboriginal expression for "one who goes walkabout." Perp: AnnaStophic ---- Voted for by: Owlbow and Faldage
D) n. The person designated as cook on a group outing to a remote location. Perp: Jackie ---- Voted for by: BranShea and AnnaStrophic
E) Wagiman: A child who is consistently truant from school. Perp: olly
F) WAGIMAN (n.) VAHG-ee-mahn
A multi-colored glass flask, often decorated with amber, usually for carrying vodka. A shortened form of Wagimaniewka – a flask from the Wagi region of Poland. Perp: Coffeebean---- Voted for by: Jackie and LukeJavan8
G) Wagiman - the largest of a subspecies of manatee found only in the waters of Indonesia, west of New Guinea. Perp: LukeJavan8 ---- Voted for by: wofahulicodoc
H) The supreme being of the Huli tribe of Papua New Guinea. Perp: Faldage
I) Noun. A self-righteous person who's condescending attitudes towards others are based on the influence of "mob rule" rather than independent thought and free choice. Refers to the "wagging" of the finger in an accusatory fashion. Perp: Rod F.
J) Wagiman: a fertility fetish of the Tunica tribe in Mississippi. Perp: zmjezhd ---- Voted for by: Coffeebean
K) ...a rudimentary Northern European pedestrian or hikers' shelter. Perp: wofahulicodoc ---- Voted for by: twosleepy and Buffalo Shrdlu
L) WAGIMAN, n. A wandering traveler, a vagrant, a vagabond. Perp: twosleepy ---- Voted for by: Avy
*Wagiman dictionary.
http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/e_access/digital/a339234/home.htmlWagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Australia's Northern Territory. On this web site you will find an online dictionary of Wagiman, as well as some general information about the language and its speakers, three texts, and some links and references to more material on Wagiman and other Australian Aboriginal languages
Foreign Language Online
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.htmlAbstract: Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Top End of the Northern Territory. It possesses an unusual open class of words which are here termed “coverbs”. Most frequently, coverbs are paired with an inflecting verb from a closed class to form a complex predicate: the coverb and inflecting verb jointly determine the verbal semantics and argument structure of the clause. This book provides a descriptive and analytical account of the behaviour of coverbs in Wagiman, especially their role in complex predicate formation. The aim is to discover what principles are at work in directing and constraining this process, and how the meaning of the whole is derived from the meanings of the parts. After discussing a wide range of relevant data from the language, a formal analysis is outlined within Lexical Functional Grammar. It is argued that to account for the intricacy of Wagiman complex predicates, it is necessary for the grammar to make explicit reference to representations of lexical meaning, and it is proposed that complex predicate formation can be seen as the fusion of these semantic representations.
This book is available from Amazon.com.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagiman_languageWagiman (also spelled Wageman, Wakiman, Wogeman) is a near-extinct indigenous Australian language spoken by fewer than 10 people[1] in and aroundPine Creek, in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory.
The Wagiman language is notable within linguistics for its complex system of verbal morphology, which remains under-investigated, its possession of a cross-linguistically rare part of speech called a coverb, its complex predicates and for its ability to productively verbalise coverbs.
Wagiman is expected to become extinct within the first half of the century, as the youngest generation of Wagiman people speak no Wagiman at all, and understand very little
Ethnologue...Languages of the World
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=waqEndangered languages
473 of the languages listed in the Ethnologue are classified as nearly extinct. They are classified in this way when "only a few elderly speakers are still living."
ethnologue 16th edition (languages of the world)
M. Paul Lewis
Looks like a couple of you were swayed by the Australian connection but guessed wrong with 'C'.
No-one picked the real meaning, it went under raider, which is what I was aiming for.
Some very persuasive definitions were suggested, an even field I think.
Congratulations to all the players, on some well thought out daffynitions. I hope yo'all enjoyed this round. And thanks to the random voters too.
OP
