Bundjalung Dictionary

English: like, similar to, resembling
Bundjalung: -ginyehr
Part of Speech: suffix
Related Words:
With same English translation:  
Comment: Often added to a noun in the genitive form, also nginyehr, q.v.; cf -ginggi- 'to do in a similar way'.
South West: Wa:Crowl ; Cas:Smy -ginje:r
Example:

Bundjalung : Wangah bawur yagam burbingah-ginyer yirali. (from W)

English: 'Your head is not like a koala's, whiteman.' (Because a koala cannot be taught to talk, whereas this whiteman could; possibly an idiom, or else because Aborigines knew the koala brain was very small

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