yaraay

Gamilaraay

Appellatio

• /jaɻaːj/ [jaˈɻaːj]

Formae aliae

• saec. XIX. yarai, yărai
• saec. XX. yerrai, yaraay

Nomen substantivum

yaraay

1. sol (-is, masc.) || Orbis luminosus, cuius lux diem constituit, cuiusque absentia noctem.

Loci

saec. XIX.

• 1856: baiame gīr yarai, gille, mirri, taon ellibu gimobi. —Gurre Kamilaroi, William Ridley
• 1856: The sun . . yărai, or yūrōkă. —On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, William Ridley, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London

saec. XX.

• 1903, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, R.H. Mathews, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland:

English.	Kamilaroi.	Thurrawal.
Sun ... ... ...	yerrai ...	wure.