Kodava
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Spoken in Kodagu (Coorg).
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| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulika (also Mrityu Gulika) | Figures with no secure modern identification | Every Coorg house owed it an annual sacrifice — fowls, coconuts and a little brandy at a stone laid at the foot of a tree with milky juice. A second Gulika, Mṛtyu Gulika 'the Gulika of death', was worshipped where deaths in a family were frequent. | folk |
| ಬೊಳ್ಳಿಳಾಚೆ boḷḷiáche | Venus | 'Venus-day' (boḷḷi + ಆಚೆ áche 'a day') The Kodava weekday name, in a list where Sunday and Monday are likewise built on native words for sun and moon while Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday are Sanskrit planet-names. | vernacular |
| boḷḷi mi·nï | Venus as morning star | 'silver star' / 'white star' — boḷḷi 'silver' (< Dravidian *veḷ 'white') + mi·nï 'star' (< Dravidian *mīn) | vernacular |
Sources
- Rice, Mysore and Coorg: A Gazetteer, vol. III (Bangalore, 1878), 'Gulika', p. 263; also Richter, Gazetteer of Coorg (1870), pp. 165–167 link
- Cole, An Elementary Grammar of the Coorg Language (Bangalore, 1867), 'Days', p. 136 link
- Burrow & Emeneau, A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, entry 5496(a), Kodagu section (DSAL p. 499) link