yawu

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Gamilaraay

yawu

Alternative forms

Particle

yawu

  1. yes
    • 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
      Affirmitive . . . yo . . yes.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 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:
      Yes, yo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

References

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

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Pronoun

yawu

  1. that
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