Proto-Nilgiri : *vāṛ
Meaning : dairy
Kota : ēr iṭ vāy "fields near village which are ploughed in the sowing ceremony (lit. field to which they put the team of plough bullocks)"
Toda : pōw "one variety of dairy (viz. all those belonging to the tī grade, the conical dairies, and a few others of high sanctity)"
Additional forms : Also Kota vāyv Toda tī dairy; karpōy pen and cowshed attached (i. e. milking place; see 1385; is the second member pōy or ōy?); Toda poɫ̣ ōɫ̣ the priest of the tī dairy (i. e. the man [ōɫ̣] of the pōw); -aɫ̣f an element in many dairy names (e. g. mōs_aɫ̣f, beside the pen mōt_wɨ̄ < mōs_ + twɨ̄); ? pōš, in: pōš tüṇy garment of priest of tī dairy, when worn around waist, and pōš tūṭ front lock of hair as tied up by priest of tī dairy (MBE 1974b, pp. 13f.); ōy field nearest Badaga village, garden (< Badaga hā́i)
Number in DED : 4112
