yuuluu

yuuluu

Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

• yulu
• yulla

Etymology

Compare Gamilaraay and Ngiyambaa yulu.

Noun

yuuluu

1. fingernail
   • 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes

     yula finger-nail

   • 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language

     Yulla—nails on fingers and toes.

   • 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34

     Finger nail .... .... yulu.