| English: dead person's spirit, spirit, person recently deceased |
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Bundjalung:
nguru wandehn
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| Part of Speech: noun |
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| Category: language |
| Comment: Literally 'a spirit up above, spirit climbed'; all the nguru go to waydjang (from way 'above') where they live on mar(a)bil, a kind of celestial food (cf. Kamilaroi word murraba 'good'), nguru in some dialects means 'dark, night'. |
| Gold Coast Tweed: M:Liv nguru wanden |
