Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/kuna

This Proto-Pama-Nyungan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Pama-Nyungan

Noun

*kuna

1. dung, manure

Descendants

• Baagandji: kuna
• Bandjalang: gunaŋ
• Proto-Central New South Wales: *gunang
  • Gamilaraay: guna
• Karnic
  • Dieri: kuna
  • Pitta-Pitta: kuna
• Martuthunira: kuna
• Pitjantjatjara: kuna
• Warlpiri: kuna
• ⇒ Australian Kriol: guna
• → English: goona (from one of the Pama-Nyungan languages)

Further reading

• Alpher, Barry (2004), Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method →ISBN