palalyi

Martuthunira

Etymology

From Proto-Ngayarda *pala, possibly related to Proto-Pama-Nyungan *pala "there". See pala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palaʎi/

Pronoun

palalyi

1. Before; earlier.

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.