| English: black, dark |
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Bundjalung:
ngagu
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| Part of Speech: adjective |
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| Category: colour |
| Comment: Black (Wa), also night (Wu); takes gender suffixes m -gali, f -galigan, arb -nahgan (Wu), pronounced ngaku (Fergn), and said to mean black and used as the name of a cat (Fergn), probably from Dhanggati or some other language. |
| Lower Richmond: Bj:Holm ngaku; Bj:Holm:Fergn ngagu dark |
| South West: Wa:Crowl; We:Gordn; Wa/Gd:Calley ngago night; Wa/Gd:Calley nga:gu; |