ngaya

Gamilaraay

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *ŋaya, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ŋayV.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ŋaja/

Pronoun

ngaya

  1. I (first person nominative singular pronoun)

See also

References
  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)

Lindu

Noun

ngaya

  1. type; kind; style

Warungu

Etymology

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ŋayV, cognate with Gamilaraay ngaya.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ŋaja/

Noun

ngaya

  1. I, (first person singular nominative pronoun)

References
  • Tsunoda, Tasaku. (2011) A Grammar of Warrongo
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