Example sentences for: gunyah

How can you use “gunyah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Weapons like the boomerang, the hielamon (a wooden shield), the nulla nulla (a club), the waddy (ditto), and the woomera (a spear-thrower), were identifiable to the earliest settlers as were also gin woman, myall , which distinguished a wild Aborigine from his civilised or tame brother, gibber a stone, and gunyah a dwelling.

  • These did include gunyah and gibber-gunyah , which recognized that they had places of habitation, also given the English names of breakweathers, or breakwinds, or known as huts.

  • Gunyah , the Dharuk word for dwelling, is matched by the Melburnian quamby , a verb meaning lie down, camp, and also a noun meaning shelter, by the Brisbane humpy , the Adelaide wurley , and the Perth mia mia .

  • So the Aboriginal equivalent of the Creation is Dreamtime , itself a translation of alcheringa (an Aranda word), bark hut is preferred to gunyah or humpy, country to the Kamilaroi towri , and walkabout to the Nyungar pink-eye .


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