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cry

Language: 
Dharug
Australian: 
dunga
English JS Main: 
cry
English: 
Weep
Category: 
voice and thought
Sub-category: 
voice
Source: 
Mathews DG 1901
Page: 
160.2
Line: 
12
Respelt: 
dunga
Part of speech: 
verb
Date: 
1901
Meaning Clue: 
‘Yunganna’: yanga-nha = ‘to groan, to cry, to make much a-do at work’: GŸnther WIRA (Fraser) [109:49] [WIRA] "dunga" dunga = "Weep" cry : Mathews DG 1901 [:160.2:12] [DG] ‘yughi’: yugi = AL&T Greenway (Ridley) [KML] [240:33] [KAMIL]
Source Details: 
Mathews, R.H: ’Dharruk’ extract from ’The Thurrawal Language’: Read before the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, Nov. 6, 1901, Vol. XXXV, pp. 155-160 Consists of 2 pages of grammar and a 3.3 page wordlist. ================ JS LIST LOCATION: Mathews SOUTH ringbinder
Comment: 
’dunga’ = cry: Dawes; Threlkeld: Awabakal: Specimens of a dialect; Mathews: 8006/3/7- Nbk 7 [Dark]; Mathews: Dharruk in Thurrawal, 1901; ’dyanga’: Mathews & Everitt: Gundungurra, 1900 ’dyungi’: Threlkeld, L.E.: Karree, c.1835;

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