Proto-South Dravidian : *ok-
Meaning : to thresh, tread, trample
Tamil : ukai (-v-, -nt-)
Tamil meaning : ? to move (as a boat), go (as a vehicle), walk (as an animal)
Tamil derivates : (-pp-, -tt-) to drive, ride, row (as a boat), discharge (as an arrow), stir up (as dust)
Malayalam : okkuka
Malayalam meaning : cattle to trample upon sheaves of corn
Malayalam derivates : vb. noun. okkal
Kannada : okku
Kannada meaning : to tread out corn, remove grain from the ears by the treading of oxen, thresh with sticks; n. threshing
Kannada derivates : okkal, okkike, okkaṇike threshing; okkisu to cause corn to be trodden out
Kodagu : okk- (okki-)
Kodagu meaning : to thresh (paddy crop) by driving cattle round on heaps of grain
Kodagu derivates : okkɨ heap of paddy on threshing floor on which cattle are driven round
Number in DED : 0927
