buunggayn
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Wiradjuri[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Ngiyambaa puntay.
Noun[edit]
buunggayn
- knee
- 1846, Horatio Hale, “Ethnography and philology”, in Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes, volume VI:
- buŋgɑŋ knee
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1892, James Günther, “Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri”, in John Fraser, editor, An Australian Language:
- Bungany—the knee.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1904, R. H. Mathews, “The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 34:
- Knee .... .... .... bûngang.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)