Proto-Nilgiri : *tōlä
Meaning : forest
Kota : tēl "forest; menstrual blood"
Toda : twās_ "grove, thicket"
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.
Number in DED : 2891
