dyin
See also: dyin'
Dharug edit
Noun edit
dyin
- woman
- 1793, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson:
- The letter ‘y’ frequently follows ‘d’ in the same syllable. Thus the word which signifies a woman is ‘dyin’; although the structure of our language requires us to spell it ‘deein’.
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: gin (loan word)
References edit
- Troy, Jakelin (1994). “The Sydney Language”, Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 75.