yuulngin

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Gamilaraay

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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yuul "vegetable food" + -ngin "lacking"

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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yuulngin

  1. hungry
    Yuulungin ngaya gilanhi.
    I was 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

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  • Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)