yilaathu

Gamilaraay

Alternative forms
  • yeladu
  • yilladhu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jilaːd̪u/

Adverb

yilaathu

  1. now
  2. today

Quotations
  • 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings:
    yeladu immanuel gunagullada ŋuddela: ŋerma kanuŋo ŋummilda, kanuŋo wīnuŋulda.
    Now Immanuel in heaven dwells; he all sees, all knows.
    (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:
    Now, yilladhu.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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