yinarr

Gamilaraay

Alternative forms

• inar, īnar, ínar
• īnă

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jinar/, [jinar], [inar]

Noun

yinarr

1. an Aboriginal woman
   • 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:

     Woman . . īnă.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings:

     baiame goë: “kamil murruba giwīr ŋāndil ŋuddelago; ŋaia giwīrgo īnar gimbille.”
     God said, “Not good man alone for to dwell; I for man woman will make.”

     (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:

     Woman | īnar

   • 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:

     A woman .... .... inar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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