Etymology

Woiwurrung

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Today it means: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the central part of Victoria, around Melbourne. Full definition →

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The story

A portmanteau of the Woiwurrung words woi (meaning "no") and wurrung (meaning "lip" or "speech"), from the way that speakers of this language express the negative.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.