ngaana

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Gamilaraay

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Pronunciation

Pronoun

ngaana

  1. who?
    • 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:
      Nganna, who?
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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

Teke-Tyee

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòìnà.

Noun

ngaana

  1. crocodile