Dharug

Noun

dyin

1. woman
   • 1793, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

     The letter ‘y’ frequently follows ‘d’ in the same syllable. Thus the word which signifies a woman is ‘dyin’; although the structure of our language requires us to spell it ‘deein’.

Derived terms

• dyinuragang

Descendants

• English: gin (loan word)

References

• Troy, Jakelin (1994). “The Sydney Language”, Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 75.