gaguhŋ

Bandjalang

Alternative forms

• kagoġ

Noun

gaguhŋ

1. elder brother of a male
2. other male relations

Quotations

• 1892, H. Livingstone, A short Grammar and Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken by the Minyuġ People, in John Fraser (ed.) An Australian Language

  A man calls an elder brother . . . kagoġ

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• ibid

  When there is no specific term for a relationship, the terms for ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ are used; for instance—a great-grandfather is called kagoġ, ‘elder brother,’ and in reply to a male he says bunam, ‘younger brother.’