Toda :twɨṭ "handle (made of loop of cane) of bamboo milking-vessel, loops of cane that tie thatch"
Additional forms :Also Toda twɨṛk hook, link of chain
Number in DED :3480
Proto-Nilgiri :*toṭ
Meaning :a slap
Toda :toṭ
Additional forms :Also Toda toṭ- (toṭy-) to strike (with hammer), pat, (sin) strikes; toṛ- (toṭ-) to bump foot; toṭxn, toṭxɨn goldsmith; fem. toṭty, toṭxity; toṭk ɨn- (ɨd_-) to be tired, exhausted
Additional forms :Also Kota tēl uk- to menstruate (lit. enter forest); tēl uḷ (lit. the inside of the forest), tēl uḷ pay (lit. house inside forest) menstrual house; cōlgn man of a forest trible living near Bokkapur [Sholagar, Census 1931, 1.3B, p. 194); Toda swāl jungle (in song; < Badaga sōle jungle with trees); swālgn = Kota cōlgn
Notes :All the forms with c- and s- are borrowings.
Additional forms :Also Kota tōṭm (obl. tōṭt-) fenced field; Toda twɨ̄ṭm (twɨ̄ḍt-) garden; tōṭ = twɨ̄ṭm (in song unit: tōṭɨṣ ɵōr_ man on an estate, i. e. European)
Notes :Kota seems to point to an old nasal cluster, while Toda has an old simple consonant. Complicated situation.
Toda :twɨ̄r_- (twɨ̄r_y-) "to be foreseen, be visible"
Additional forms :Also Kota tōg- (tōyg-) intuition comes (to person); Toda twɨ̄l- (twɨ̄d_-), twɨ̄t_- (twɨ̄t_y-) to be foreseen; nēt_wɨ̄r_- (nēt_wɨ̄r_y-) to be reflected (lit. to be visible as a reflection; for nēs_, see 3679)
Kota :tuṛ- (tuṭ-) "to roast, bake (pots), burn (corpses)"
Toda :tuṛ- (tuṭ-) "to burn (tr.)"
Additional forms :Also Kota cuṛ gāṛ funeral burning-place; cūṛ (obl. cūṭ-) heat, a burn, spark thrown off by hammered iron; pair-word with pāṛ hardship (pāṛ cūṛ)
Notes :Kota forms with c- probably borrowed from Kannada (the bifurcation of the original root in two is hard to explain otherwise).
