Borrowed fromTswanangaka.
ngaka (pluralngakasordingaka)
- A traditionalSothowitch doctor.
FromProto-Pama-Nyungan*nguku.
ngaka
- water
ngaka class9/10 (pluraldingaka)
- doctor,physician
- traditionalhealer,witch doctor
ngaka class9 (pluraldingaka)
- doctor,physician
- traditionalhealer,witch doctor
Possibly fromProto-Pama-Nyungan*nguku (comparenguku(“river”), which certainly is).
ngaka
- water
- Luise Hercus, Peter Austin,Yarli Comparative Vocabulary, dansAustralian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch),pages 647-654