We are preparing some ‘words of the day’ for Winangali Gunnedah; [email jgiacon@ozemail.com.au if you want to be on the mailout list]
The words for ‘day’, yaadha and yaraadha, are the locative of ‘sun’; I suggest using the YR yaadha to mean a day [24 hours] and so yaraadha [yaraay+-dha] GR, can be day time or ‘in the sun’.
month; We could use ‘moon’ gilay GR for ‘month’ [moon-th] or something derived from gilay; or could use the YR baaluu to mean month in GR [then what would YR use?] ideas please; Wangaaybuwan has gabadaa ‘moon’, so maybe use that.
A week is seven days and ¼ of a month;
seven days yaadha guulay > yaaguu ;
we don’t have a way to words like quarter, fifth, but they will probably be derived from buligaa, maa [4, 5];
so month quarter ; baaluu buligaa++ > baabu ; or lots of other combinations;
I’d like to start using ‘week’ but next Friday, so suggestions by wed/thurs would be great ;
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maaru yananga, [We have taught yanaya as the command form; -ya is the only command suffix found in YR, but the old GR sources indicate that yanay ‘go’ is irregular, with imperative yananga.]
John
Gamilaraay 