biiba

Guguyimidjir

Appellatio

• /biːba/

Formae aliae

• saec. XIX. bayba
• saec. XX. peba, beba, biiba

Nomen substantivum

biiba

1. pater (-ris, masc.) || Qui progenies genuit.
2. patruus (-i, masc.) || Frater minor natu patris.

Loci

saec. XIX.

• 1898: Father, bayba — Vocabulary of the Australian Aborigines in the Neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland, Richard Phillips, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

saec. XX.

• 1979: biiba; $ngagumadharr, father, father's younger brother etc. — Guugu Yimidhirr, John B. Haviland, in Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol. 1