Konkani
names 5objects 3ISO 639-3 kok
Spoken in South Kanara / Mangalore.
vernacular 1 · folk 1 · borrowed 3
See the Konkani sky on the chart →
The sky in Konkani
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| neketru | 'Star' as a word | — | borrowed |
| dumaket | Comets | marked (H. K.), i.e. a Hindu Konkani word | borrowed |
| Akāsagaṅgā | The Milky Way | the sky-Ganges Maffei marks it Mr. Cn. — Marathi and Canarese — and says it is not used in Konkani | borrowed |
| dudavat | The Milky Way | milk-road (conjectural: dudh 'milk' + vāṭ 'way') marked (H. K.) — Maffei's abbreviation for a word used especially by Hindu Konkans, as against the Christian Konkani of Mangalore | folk |
| molbamārog | The Milky Way | the road that is on the sky | vernacular |
Sources
- A. F. X. Maffei, An English-Konkani Dictionary (Mangalore: Basel Mission Press, 1883), s.v. Star, p. 455 link
- A. F. X. Maffei, An English-Konkani Dictionary (Mangalore: Basel Mission Press, 1883), s.v. Comet, p. 73 link
- A. F. X. Maffei, An English-Konkani Dictionary (Mangalore: Basel Mission Press, 1883), s.v. Galaxy, p. 202 link
- A. F. X. Maffei, An English-Konkani Dictionary (Mangalore: Basel Mission Press, 1883), s.v. Galaxy, pp. 201-202 link