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Reconstruction:Proto-Pama-Nyungan/rirra

This Proto-Pama-Nyungan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Pama-Nyungan

Alternative forms

Noun

*rirra

  1. tooth

Descendants
  • Bandjalang (including Yugambeh): dirrang (“tooth”)
  • Bidyara: yira (“tooth”)
  • Dyaabugay: dirra (“tooth”)
  • Dyirbal: tirra (“tooth”)
  • Gamilaraay: yira (“tooth”), Yuwaalaraay-dialect: yiya (“tooth”)
  • Gugu Badhun: rirra (“tooth”)
  • Gunya: ira (“tooth”)
  • Kalkatungu: irrangkal (“kangaroo teeth (ornament)”)
  • Kuku-Yalanji dirra (“tooth”)
    → Aghu Tharrnggala: liy (“tooth”) (a loan from some language)
  • Margany: irta (“tooth”)
  • Martuthunira yirra
  • Mudburra: lirra (“mouth; lip; tooth”)
  • Muruwari: thirra (“tooth”)
  • Nyawaygi: yirra (“teeth; point; seed”)
  • Panyjima yirra
  • Walmajarri: lirra (“mouth; tooth; lip(s)”)
  • Warlmanpa: lirra (“mouth; teeth”)
  • Warlpiri: lirra (“mouth”)
  • Warrgamay yirra (“tooth”)
  • general Warungu rirra, Gu(d)jal additional forms riyala and wurriya
  • Woiwurrung: liang (“tooth”)
  • Yaygir: dira (“tooth”)
  • Yidiny: dirra (“tooth; hail; seed; name”)
  • Yorta Yorta: dirran (“tooth”)

Further reading
  • Alpher, Barry (2004), Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method →ISBN
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