Gamilaraay

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Noun

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yibatha

  1. A female marriage class or skin group. A yibatha can marry only a gabi; her sons will be gambu, and her daughters buuthaa.
    • 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
      A “kŭbbĭ” may marry only an “ippātā.”
      (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:
      Class names of Women. | Ippāthā

References

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