Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra

This Proto-Pama-Nyungan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Pama-Nyungan

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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*rirra

  1. tooth

Descendants

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  • Bandjalang (including Yugambeh): dirrang (tooth)
  • Bidyara: yira (tooth)
  • Dyaabugay: dirra (tooth)
  • Dyirbal: tirra (tooth)
  • Gamilaraay: yira (tooth), Yuwaalaraay-dialect: yiya (tooth)
  • Gugu Badhun: rirra (tooth)
  • Gunya: ira (tooth)
  • Kalkatungu: irrangkal (kangaroo teeth (ornament))
  • Kuku-Yalanji dirra (tooth)
    → Aghu Tharrnggala: liy (tooth) (a loan from some language)
  • Linngithigh: lidh (tooth)
  • Margany: irta (tooth)
  • Martuthunira yirra
  • Mudburra: lirra (mouth; lip; tooth)
  • Muruwari: thirra (tooth)
  • Nyawaygi: yirra (teeth; point; seed)
  • Panyjima yirra
  • Walmajarri: lirra (mouth; tooth; lip(s))
  • Warlmanpa: lirra (mouth; teeth)
  • Warlpiri: lirra (mouth)
  • Warrgamay yirra (tooth)
  • general Warungu rirra, Gu(d)jal additional forms riyala and wurriya
  • Woiwurrung: liang (tooth)
  • Yaygir: dira (tooth)
  • Yidiny: dirra (tooth; hail; seed; name)
  • Yorta Yorta: dirran (tooth)

Further reading

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  • Alpher, Barry (2004), Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method →ISBN