Gamilaraay

Alternative forms

• inar, īnar, ínar
• īnă

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.

   • 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.”

   • 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

References

• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)