yinarr
Gamilaraay
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edityinarr
- an Aboriginal woman
- 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
- Woman . . īnă.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings:
- baiame goë: “kamil murruba giwīr ŋāndil ŋuddelago; ŋaia giwīrgo īnar gimbille.”
God said, “Not good man alone for to dwell; I for man woman will make.”- (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:
- Woman | īnar
- 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:
- A woman .... .... inar
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
edit- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)