yuulngin

Gamilaraay

Alternative forms

• yulngin

Etymology

yuul "vegetable food" + -ngin "lacking"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːlŋin/

Adjective

yuulngin

1. hungry

   Yuulungin ngaya gilanhi.

   I was hungry.

   • 1903, R. H. Mathews, “Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:

     Hungry .... .... yulngin

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)