Proto-South Dravidian : *kur_-
Meaning : small
Tamil : kur_u
Tamil meaning : short, dwarfish, defective
Tamil derivates : (-pp-, -tt-) to become short, contract, shrink; kur_umai shortness, dwarfishness, defectiveness; kur_uku (kur_uki-) to grow short, stumpy, dwarfish, shrink, be reduced, decrease; kur_ukku (kur_ukki-) to shorten, reduce, abbreviate; n. shortness of distance, contraction; kur_ukkam shortness, abbreviation; kur_ukkal reduction, contraction; kur_ukal that which is short; kur_ai (-v-, -nt-) to diminish, dwindle, be reduced, prove insufficient, be defective, droop in affliction, languish from worries, lose courage, suffer defeat; (-pp-, -tt-) to lessen, shorten; n. deficiency, defect, poverty; kur_aiccal deficiency, scarcity, disparagement; kur_aivu lack, deficiency, defect, small quantity, poverty; kur_aẓ (-v-, -nt-) to stoop, bend low; kur_aḷ, kur_il shortness, dwarfishness, smallness; kur_aḷan_ dwarf; fem. kur_aḷi; kur_aḷai dwarfishness, poverty; kur_iyōn_ person of short stature; kur_r_am fault, defect, reproach; kur_r_i stump; kur_r_-uyir state of being half-dead; kun_r_u (kun_r_i-) to decrease, become reduced, droop, languish, become stunted; n. deficiency; kun_r_al diminishing; kuñcam, kuñcan_ a dwarf
Malayalam : kur_u
Malayalam meaning : short, little, brief
Malayalam derivates : kur_utu, kur_iyatu what is short; kur_u nari, kur_ukkan jackal; kur_uka to grow short, be abridged, thicken by boiling; kur_ukku what is short; kur_ukkuka to shorten, diminish, boil down, contract, pull in; kur_uppam shortness; kur_umpu infant; kur_a want, defect, blemish, disgrace; kur_ayuka to dwindle, sink in price, be deficient, short, little; kur_accal want, scarcity; kur_avu deficiency, disgrace; kur_aya, kur_ē little, less, minus; kur_ekka to diminish, lower, disgrace; kur_aḷ shortness; kur_aḷan dwarf; kur_r_am defect, fault, crime; kur_r_i stump, peg
Kannada : kur_u
Kannada meaning : smallness
Kannada derivates : kur_ukuḷi a detractor; kur_ugaṇi state of being diminished, grown short, or worsted; kur_ucu, kur_aci, kūcu, guccu, gujju, gujja smallness, dwarfishness; gujja a dwarf; kur_aḷ shortness, littleness; kor_ate, kor_ante state of being curtailed, deficiency, want, defect, fault; kor_e to grow little or less or short, diminish; n. smallness, shortness, deficiency, defect, remainder; kutta defect, deficiency, fault, trouble, disease; kuttu that is small, etc.; kundu to become small, little, less, become lean, decrease, wane, sink under affliction, faint, cease; n. decrease, deficiency, defect, want, fault, dejection; kundaka defect; kunduvike, kunduha decreasing, etc.; (Hav.) kudka jackal
Kodagu : koru, koravu
Kodagu meaning : defect, deficiency
Kodagu derivates : korate diminishing; kurkë jackal
Tulu : kuru
Tulu meaning : little, small
Tulu derivates : kudike jackal, fox; kora brief, short; korati, koratè defect, want, need; kuccaṭụ shortness, smallness; short, small; kutta sickness; kuddya, kudya shortness; short, small, dwarfish; (B-K) kudke fox; kundu deficiency, defect, fault, want, loss; kunduni to decrease, be reduced, fade, be boiled down; kundāvuni to reduce, boil down, repress; kundelụ deficiency (as in the measurement of grain, etc.); kundri little, small, short; koṭakoṭa deficient, short, little
Miscellaneous : KOR (O) kudke fox; kudde dwarf
Number in DED : 1851
