yuulngin
Gamilaraay edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
yuul "vegetable food" + -ngin "lacking"
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)