yilaathu
Gamilaraay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jilaːd̪u/
Alternative forms
- yeladu
- yilladhu
Adverb
yilaathu
- now
- today
Quotations
- 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings
- yeladu immanuel gunagullada ŋuddela: ŋerma kanuŋo ŋummilda, kanuŋo wīnuŋulda.
- Now Immanuel in heaven dwells; he all sees, all knows.
- 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:
- Now, yilladhu.
References
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)