yarray

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Gamilaraay

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *yarrañ, cognate with Wiradjuri yarrayn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaraj/ (reconstructed)

Noun

yarray

  1. beard
    • 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
      Beard . . yărē.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
      Beard | yarē
    • 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:
      Beard .... .... yerre
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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

Ngiyambaa

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *yarrañ, cognate with Wiradjuri yarrayn.

Noun

yarray

  1. beard