English: black, dark
Bundjalung: ngagu
Part of Speech: adjective
Related Words:
With same English translation:  
Category: colour
Comment: Black (Wa), also night (Wu); takes gender suffixes m -gali, f -galigan, arb -nahgan (Wu), pronounced ngaku (Fergn), and said to mean black and used as the name of a cat (Fergn), probably from Dhanggati or some other language.
Lower Richmond: Bj:Holm ngaku; Bj:Holm:Fergn ngagu dark
South West: Wa:Crowl; We:Gordn; Wa/Gd:Calley ngago night; Wa/Gd:Calley nga:gu;


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