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Gender Feminine
Meaning & History
Means "girl" in the Gumbaynggir language from mid-north New South Wales amd the name of a village near Coffs Harbour where the language originates. The word is also thought to mean "woman" or refer to "women’s business" in other Indigenous languages too. It appeared in Castleden Dove's Lowanna: An Australian School Story (1925), about a rich, worldly girl called Lowanna Laurenson. ('Everything about you seems, somehow, to fit,' she murmured. 'Name and all. It is a lovely name — Lowanna.')