| English: Aboriginal man, person, face, know (Wi), Aboriginal(s) (M)
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Bundjalung:
mibiny
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| Part of Speech: noun
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Related Words:
mibiny
primary meaning appears to be 'face' (Gd); 'Aboriginal man' in Yugambeh and Minyangbal
mibiny is 'Aboriginal man' in northern dialects
face in Wa
and 'person
face' in Gd; Y:Watsn form suggests mibany 'Aborigine
male
elder'; cf
With same English translation:
mibiny
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Category: people
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Comment: See also mibiny, primary meaning appears to be 'face' (Gd); 'Aboriginal man' in Yugambeh and Minyangbal, mibiny is 'Aboriginal man' in northern dialects, face in Wa, and 'person, face' in Gd; Y:Watsn form suggests mibany 'Aborigine, male, elder'; cf. baygal, also attested; jinaba given by AT:Curr:LandsWh probably 'they'; mibinygir 'some or many dark people' (Y:Holm:Logn), mibingirni (acc.), mibinygirna (gen.) (Y:Holm), GC:Nerang:police lists mibiny (mebbon) as 'drowned man', probably 'Ab
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Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Sha:Culhm mibiny Aboriginal man; Y:Holm man (Curry , Logn) , dark man , black fellow , dark people (Logn); Y:Allen maibin aborigine; Y:Watsn m
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Lower Richmond: Bj:Holm:Fergn mibi
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South West: Wa:Crowl face;
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Condamine Upper Clarence: Gd:Geyt face, person, know;
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Example:
Bundjalung : Jagun gali mibinyal. (from Y:Holm:Log)
English: 'This land belongs to the dark people.'
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Example:
Bundjalung : mibinyba (from Y:Holm:Log)
English: 'to the dark men'
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Example:
Bundjalung : Mibinydju giyehni jabungi galgayah jali. (from Y:Sha:Culh)
English: 'The man told the boy to chop the tree.'
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Example:
Bundjalung : Mamale gamagay/bidjanggalang jalgany. (from Y:Sha:Culh)
English: 'That woman is big/small.'
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Example:
Bundjalung : yabur mibiny (from M:S)
English: 'a black man'
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