yibaay
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Gamilaraay
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yibaay
- A male marriage class or skin group. A yibaay can marry only a gabutha; his sons will be marrii, and his daughters matha.
- 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
- The children of “ippai” by “kāpōta” are all “mūrrī,” or “baia,” and “mātā.”
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- 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
- Class Names of Men. | Ippai
References
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)