yilambu

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Gamilaraay

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jilambu/, [ilambu] (reconstructed)

Adverb

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yilambu

  1. long ago
    • 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings:
      īlambo immanuel taongo tai-yanani, giwīr ginyi.
      Long ago Immanuel to earth came, man he became.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1903, R. H. Mathews, “Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:
      Long ago, yilambu.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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