yibatha

Gamilaraay

FWOTD – 30 June 2015

Alternative forms

• ippātā
• ippāthā

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jibad̪a/

Noun

yibatha

1. 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.”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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

References

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