yarrayn
Wiradhuri
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Central New South Wales *yarrañ, cognate with Gamilaraay yarray.
Noun
yarrayn
- beard
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
- Yaran—the chin; the beard.
- 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34
- Beard .... .... .... yerrañ.
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language