English
Gamilaraay
Gamilaraay comes from Gamilaraay Gamilaraay ‘having not’, and goes back to gamil.
- Gamilaraaymoderngamil‘not’
- Gamilaraay, derivedmodernGamilaraay‘having not’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Gamilaraaymoderngamil‘not’
- Gamilaraay, derivedmodernGamilaraay‘having not’
- Englishtodaysame form
The story
Other dialects and languages were similarly named after their respective words for no, e.g. the Wailwan say wayil.
Every English word from Gamilaraay gamil
Today it means
noun An Indigenous people of New South Wales in Australia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Gamilaraay gamil / Gamilaraay