yaraay

Gamilaraay

Alternative forms

• yarai, yărai
• yerrai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaɻaːj/

Noun

yaraay

1. the sun
   • 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:

     The sun . . yărai, or yūrōkă.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings:

     baiame gīr yarai, gille, mirri, taon ellibu gimobi.
     God verily sun, moon, stars, earth also made.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:

     Sun | yarai

   • 1903, R. H. Mathews, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:

     Sun .... .... .... | yerrai

References

• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)