Kumaoni
names 2objects 2ISO 639-3 kfy
Spoken in Kumaon, United Provinces (now Uttarakhand).
vernacular 1 · borrowed 1
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The sky in Kumaoni
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| tāro, tarei | 'Star' as a word | — | borrowed |
| lampuchhā tāro | Comets | 'the long-tailed star' From the Kumauni-English vocabulary appended to Grierson's Pahārī volume. | vernacular |
Sources
- George Abraham Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IX Part IV: Specimens of the Pahārī Languages and Gujurī (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1916), Kumauni-English Vocabulary, comparative word-list, item 64 link
- George Abraham Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IX Part IV: Specimens of the Pahārī Languages and Gujurī (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1916), Kumauni-English Vocabulary, s.v. Lampuchhā tāro, p. 260 link