Tulu
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Spoken in South Canara (Tulu Nadu).
vernacular 7 · borrowed 1
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The sky in Tulu
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| ಬಾಲನಕ್ಷತ್ರ bālanakṣatra | Comets | 'tail-star' | vernacular |
| ಆಕಾಶೊಡ್ಡು ಬೂರ್ದಿ ಕಲ್ಲ್ ākāśoḍḍu būrdi kallụ | Meteors and shooting stars | 'the stone that fell from the sky' | vernacular |
| Paggu, Besha, Kártél, Áte, Sóna, Nirnala, Bóntel, Járde, Perárde, Puyintél, Máyi, Suggi | Seasonal and agricultural star-markers | These, and not any star, are what Tulu cultivation runs on: Sturrock states that all the operations of cultivation are regulated by the solar months, which alone are well known to the cultivating classes in Tuluva proper, while written leases follow the lunar reckoning because they are drawn up in Kannada by Brahmins. | vernacular |
| ನಕ್ಷತ್ರೊಳಿ ಸಾಲ್ nakṣatroḷi sāl | The Milky Way | 'row/line of stars' (ಸಾಲ್ sāl 'row, line', native Dravidian) | vernacular |
| ನಕ್ಷತ್ರ nakṣatra | The lunar mansions as a system | — | borrowed |
| ಹೊರಸಿನ್ಟ ನಕ್ಷತ್ರೊಳಿ ಕೂಟ horasinṭa nakṣatroḷi kūṭa | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | 'the star-cluster of the cot' — ಹೊರಸು horasu 'a cot, a couch' (Kittel, Kannada-English Dictionary, p. 1771) + genitive + ನಕ್ಷತ್ರ nakṣatra 'star' + ಕೂಟ kūṭa 'assembly, cluster' | vernacular |
| ಬೊಳ್ಳಿ boḷḷi | Venus | 'silver' — from the Dravidian root *veḷ 'white' The ordinary Tulu word for a star; also 'silver', 'three annas' and 'a gray ox'. | vernacular |
| ತಂಜದ ಬೊಳ್ಳಿ tanjada boḷḷi | Venus as evening star | 'the star of evening' (ತಂಜ tanja 'evening, sunset, night' + genitive -ದ -da + ಬೊಳ್ಳಿ boḷḷi 'star') | vernacular |
Sources
- Männer, Tuḷu–English Dictionary (1886), s.v. ಬಾಲನಕ್ಷತ್ರ bālanakṣatra, p. 481 link
- Männer, English–Tuḷu Dictionary (1888), s.v. Meteorite, p. 327 link
- Sturrock, Madras District Manuals: South Canara, vol. I (Madras, 1894), p. 216 link
- Männer, English–Tuḷu Dictionary (1888), s.v. Galaxy, p. 208 link
- Männer, Tuḷu–English Dictionary (1886), s.v. ನಕ್ಷತ್ರ nakṣatra, p. 348 link
- Männer, English–Tuḷu Dictionary (Basel Mission Press, 1888), s.v. Ursa, p. 617 link
- Männer, Tuḷu–English Dictionary (Mangalore, Basel Mission Press, 1886), s.v. ಬೊಳ್ಳಿ boḷḷi, p. 502 link
- Männer, Tuḷu–English Dictionary (1886), s.v. ತಂಜ tanja, p. 262 (sub-entry) link
