mayili

Martuthunira

Etymology

From Proto-Ngayarda *mayirli, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *mayi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /majili/

Noun

mayili

1. (nominal) paternal grandfather, father's father.

References

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.