nukung

Awabakal

Appellatio

Fortasse */ɲu(ː)kaŋ/ vel */ɲu(ː)kuŋ/?

Formae aliae

• saec. XIX. nukung, nu‐kung, nokʊ̆ŋ, nukuġ
• ngu‐koong

Notatio

Confer Darkinjung ñukung.

Nomen substantivum

nukung

1. mulier (-is, fem.) || Homo femina.

Loci

saec. XIX.

• 1834: Nu‐kung, a woman; Nu‐kung‐ko, the woman did, does, or will do. —An Australian Grammar, L. E. Threlkeld
• 1846, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1844-1874, Vol. 6: Ethnology and philology, Horatio Hale, p. 480 [1]:

	WOMAN.
Lake Maquarie	nokʊ̆ŋ