pirlu
Martuthunira edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *pirlu (“hip”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pirlu
- Upper buttocks.
References edit
- Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
- Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.