dhamal
Guugu Yimidhirr
Alternative forms
- tamal (1898: Richard Phillips, ‘Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland’. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 27)
Etymology
From Proto-Paman *camal, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *cama.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d̪amal/
Noun
dhamal
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Synonyms
- buyiibuyii (avoidance language)
References
- Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
- Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.