Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra you have here. The definition of the word Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofReconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
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

Alternative forms

Noun

*rirra

  1. tooth

Descendants

  • 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)
  • 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

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