Sora
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Spoken in the Sora country of the Ganjam and Koraput hills, Odisha and northern Andhra.
tribal 9
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The sky in Sora
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| tui-tuj-ən, tuj-tuj-ən, tu-tuj-ən | 'Star' as a word | One word, Ramamurti says, for a star, a planet and a falling star alike. In the compounds the first element contracts to tuj-, which is the element that ends every Sora star-name. | tribal |
| kukkur-ən-a-arreʼ-tuj-ən | Aldebaran | — | tribal |
| baːmbədaː- tuj-ən | Jupiter | Ramamurti attributes the name to the influence of the Oriya astrologers. | tribal |
| risaːl-tuj-ən | Jupiter | — | tribal |
| jan(d)rʔum-tuj | Mars | — | tribal |
| kukkur-tuj-ən, rukku-tuj-ən, ruŋkutam-tuj-ən, rukkui-tuj-ən | The Pleiades | 'the cluster stars' — rukku is a crowd, an assembly, a flock Ramamurti calls it 'the third constellation' at one of its two headwords. | tribal |
| orroː-tuj-ən | The lunar mansions as a system | 'the ploughing stars' (or-roː, to plough land, to cultivate) | tribal |
| orrub-tuj-ən | Venus as evening star | 'the evening star' (or-rub-ən, evening) | tribal |
| tagəldaː-tuj-ən | Venus as morning star | 'the morning star' (tagəldaː-, to be morning) Ramamurti adds, in the entry itself, that the Soras do not distinguish between the stars and the planets. | tribal |
Sources
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. tui-'tuj-ən, p. 300 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. kuk'kur-ən-a-'arreʼ-'tuj-ən, p. 146 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. baːmbədaː-, p. 50 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. risaːl-'tuj-ən, p. 235 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. jan(d)r'ʔum-'tuj, p. 120 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. kukkur-'tuj-ən; rukkui-'tuj-ən, p. 146, 235 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. or-'roː-'tuj-ən, p. 195 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. orrub-'tuj-ən, p. 195 link
- G.V. Ramamurti, Sora-English Dictionary (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1938), s.v. 'tagəldaː-, p. 273 link