yuulngin
Gamilaraay
Alternative forms
- yulngin
Etymology
yuul "vegetable food" + -ngin "lacking"
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /juːlŋin/
Noun
yuulngin
- hungry
- 1903, R. H. Mathews, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:
- Hungry .... .... yulngin
- 1903, R. H. Mathews, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:
References
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)