yaraay
Gamilaraay
Alternative forms
- yarai, yărai
- yerrai
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jaɻaːj/
Noun
yaraay
- the sun
- 1856, William Ridley, On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
- The sun . . yărai, or yūrōkă.
- 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings
- baiame gīr yarai, gille, mirri, taon ellibu gimobi.
- God verily sun, moon, stars, earth also made.
- 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
- Sun | yarai
- 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:
- Sun .... .... .... | yerrai
- 1856, William Ridley, On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
References
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)
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