| English: Aboriginal woman, Goori woman,
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Bundjalung:
jalgany
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| Part of Speech: noun
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Related Words:
With same English translation:
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Category: people
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Comment: Y:Sha:Culhm also lists as girl, daugher; AT:Curr:Prior could be dugalgan or jalgany 'Aboriginal woman' or dagaygan 'white woman'; cf. also dubay; Y:Holm:Logn gives dubay also, the form from more southerly dialects.
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Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Sha:Culhm jalgany; Y:Holm jalgan woman (Fogty), jalgany woman, girl (Curry, Fogty, JFogty); Y:Allen talgunn woman; Y:Watsn talg'un, dug'alg
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Example:
Bundjalung : Yugam ngay malagir jalganygir. (from Y:Sha:Culh)
English: 'I don't like that woman.'
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Example:
Bundjalung : Kurahr mamali jalganydjin mumuh. (from Y:Sha:Culh)
English: 'The (boy) is taller than the girl.'
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Example:
Bundjalung : jalgany-nguhr (from Y:Hanl)
English: 'married man (literally 'woman-having')'
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