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

  1. Foot.
  2. Footprint.

Synonyms

  • buyiibuyii (avoidance language)

References

  • Barry Alpher (2004), “Proto-Pama-Nyungan Etyma”, in Claire Bowern, Harold Koch, editors, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →ISBN, section 5.1, pages 398–9
  • Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.
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