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)
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