pirlu
Martuthunira
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *pirlu (“hip”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pirlu
- Upper buttocks.
References
[edit]- 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.