Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/nguku
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Proto-Pama-Nyungan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Proto-Trans-New Guinea *nok (“water”).
Noun[edit]
*nguku
Descendants[edit]
- Ayabadhu (Yintyingka): ngoki (“water”)
- Baagandji: ngugu (“water”)
- → Garawa: nguwu (“water”)
- → Kayardild: nguku (“water”)
- Kuku-Uwanh: ngaka (“water”)
- Kalkatungu: kuu (“water”)
- Kuuk Thaayorre: ngok (“water”)
- → Lardil: nguka (“water; year”)
- → Mangarayi: nguku (“water”)
- Mudburra: nguku (“water”)
- Ngarrindjeri: nguk (“water”)
- Nyunga: nguk (“honey”)
- Wangkumara: nguku (“river”), also possibly ngaka (“water”)
- Warlpiri: nguku (“water”)
- Wik-Mungkan: ngak (“water”)
- Wik-Ngathana: ngak (“water”)
- → Yangkaal: nguku (“water”)
- Yindjilandji: nguka (“water”)
Further reading[edit]
- Alpher, Barry (2004), Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method →ISBN