nguwu

Garawa

Etymology

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *nguku.

Noun

nguwu

1. (western Garawa) water

Synonyms

• wanami, wabuda (eastern Garawa)

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, →ISBN
• Nicholas Evans, The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia (2003)