guyu

See also: kuyu

Guugu Yimidhirr

Alternative forms

• goyo (1898: Richard Phillips, ‘Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland’. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 27)

Etymology

From Proto-Paman *kuya ~ *kuyu, from Proto-Pama-Maric *kuyu, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuju/

Noun

guyu

1. fish

Synonyms

• guudyu
• munyiil (avoidance language)

References

• Barry Alpher (2004), “Proto-Pama-Nyungan Etyma”, in Claire Bowern, Harold Koch, editors, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →ISBN, section 5.1, pages 446–7
• Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.

Javanese

Noun

guyu

1. laughter

Shona

Noun

gúyu class 5 (plural makúyu class 6)

1. fig

   Synonym: onde

Related terms

• mukuyu