yibatha
Gamilaraay
FWOTD – 30 June 2015
Alternative forms
- ippātā
- ippāthā
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.”
- 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
- 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)