| English: camp, house, hut, dwelling, blanket, rag, cover, bark
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Bundjalung:
ngumbiny
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| Part of Speech: noun
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Related Words:
With same English translation:
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Category: artifact
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Comment: M:Liv's suffixes show final /ny/, gamay ngumbiny can be used for a large building such as a church, or for a collection of humpies - a town or village, ngumbiny also used for the blankets given to the Aborigines on Queen's birthday, and for a rag tied round the foot (M:Liv). Y:Watsn claims corrupted by white people to 'humpy' or 'umpy'. Y:Hanln forms noomboolalah and noomboolya probably belong with numbuh- 'return'.
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Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Sha:Culhm ngumbiny house, ngumban blanket; Y:Holm ngumbiny (ngumbuny Fogty) I. bark, 2. hut, house, home; Y:Allen ngum-bin house; Y:Watsn ng
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South West: We:Gordn camp , house , hall ; Cas:Smy ngumbinj house, dwelling ;
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Condamine Upper Clarence: Gd:Geyt house , hut; Gn:JMathew ngumbin house ; Gn:Mathew ngumbin house
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Copmanhurst: Cop:Hargrv berongumbi hut (small house) ;
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Example:
Bundjalung : Ngay gilagir ngumbinygir. (from M:Li)
English: 'I would like to have that house.'
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