yibaay

Gamilaraay

FWOTD – 21 September 2014

Alternative forms

• ippai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jibaːj/

Noun

yibaay

1. A male marriage class or skin group. A yibaay can marry only a gabutha; his sons will be marrii, and his daughters matha.
   • 1856, William Ridley, On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:

     The children of “ippai” by “kāpōta” are all “mūrrī,” or “baia,” and “mātā.”

   • 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:

     Class Names of Men. | Ippai

References

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