bunggu

Guguyimidjir

Appellatio

• /buŋɡu/

Formae aliae

• saec. XVIII. pongo, bongo
• saec. XIX. boongo
• saec. XX. bunggu

Nomen substantivum

bunggu

1. genu (-us, neut.) ||

Dictiones collatae

Synonyma

• dyinu

Loci

saec. XVIII.

• 1770: The Knees Pongo. — James Cook

saec. XIX.

• 1898: Knees, boongo. — Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland, Richard Phillips, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

saec. XX.

• 1979: bunggu; $dyinu, knee — Guugu Yimidhirr, John B. Haviland, in Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol. 1