nhurraay

Gamilaraay

Appellatio

• /n̪uraːj/ [n̪uˈraːj]

Formae aliae

• saec. XIX. murrai, mŭrrai, nūrai
• saec. XX. nurai, nhurraay

Nomen substantivum

nhurraay

1. Quaedam specie anguis.
2. Nomen.

Loci

saec. XIX.

• 1856: “Ippai” is his family name, and “Murrai” (meaning a brown snake) his surname. — On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, William Ridley, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London
• 1856: Brown snake . mŭrrai. — idem
• 1856: baiame gīr yārāman, būrumo, bundar, mūte, dūli, dīnoun, buralga, biloela, millimumul, gulamboli, kobado, mullion, guiya, nūrai, ŋundoba, burulu, muŋin, kānuŋo di gimobi. — Gurre Kamilaroi, William Ridley

saec. XX.

• 1903, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, R.H. Mathews, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland:

English.	Kamilaroi.	Thurrawal.
Brown snake ....	nurai ....	birragundhang.