cry

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Toongha
English JS Main: 
cry
English: 
To Cry
Category: 
voice and thought
Sub-category: 
voice
Source: 
Paine, Daniel
Page: 
41.1
Line: 
14
Respelt: 
dungGa
Part of speech: 
verb
Date: 
1795
Meaning Clue: 
‘Yunganna’: yanga-nha = ‘to groan, to cry, to make much a-do at work’: GŸnther WIRA (Fraser) [109:49] [WIRA] ‘yughi’: yugi = AL&T Greenway (Ridley) [KML] [240:33] [KAMIL]
Source Details: 
Daniel Paine, Daniel: The Journal of Daniel Paine 1794-1797, Together with Documents Illustrating the Beginning of Government Boat-Building and Timber-getting in New South Wales, 1795-1805: pp. 41-2. Word list informant Bennelong on Reliance, 1795. -------------------------------------- JS LIST LOCATION: BOOK: Personal copy on JS upper study bookshelves
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;