yibatha

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Gamilaraay

FWOTD – 30 June 2015

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Australian Aboriginal kinship

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jibad̪a/

Noun

yibatha

A female marriage class or skin group. A yibatha can marry only a gabi; her sons will be gambu, and her daughters buuthaa.
- 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
  A “kŭbbĭ” may marry only an “ippātā.”
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
  Class names of Women. | Ippāthā

References

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

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