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Martuthunira
Etymology
From Proto-Ngayarda *ñina-, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ñi:na-.
Verb
nyina-
- (transitive) to sit
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)
- Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.