dhamal

Guugu Yimidhirr

Alternative forms

• tamal (1898: Richard Phillips, ‘Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland’. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 27)

Etymology

From Proto-Paman *camal, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *cama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪amal/

Noun

dhamal

1. Foot.
2. Footprint.

Synonyms

• buyiibuyii (avoidance language)

References

• 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)
• Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.