guuguubarra
Wiradjuri
Alternative forms
Etymology
Onomatopoeic of its call.
Noun
guuguubarra
- kookaburra
- 1904, R. H. Mathews, “The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 34:
- Laughing jackass .... guguburra.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- → English: kookaburra