palalyi

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Martuthunira

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Etymology

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From Proto-Ngayarda *pala, possibly related to Proto-Pama-Nyungan *pala "there". See pala.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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palalyi

  1. Before; earlier.

References

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  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.