RE: gOngUra in telangANA
Tata, Prasad (PrasadT@MOCR.OAPI.COM)
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:55:14 -0400
Singadi is not a very uncommon term, I think it is used for a notty girl
and Singadi is used to address a child out of affection for her pleasant
nuisance.
This word singadi is also in usage in Srikakulam area.
Any thoughts?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ramana R. Juvvadi [SMTP:juvvadi@horizoncomp.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 09, 1997 5:40 PM
>To: telusa@cs.wisc.edu
>Subject: Re: gOngUra in telangANA
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>Thanks to the discussion I added one more term to my vocabulary
>"punTi koora". Not being from Hyderabad, I never heard this term.
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>Some time ago I mentioned a unique Telnagana (unique Karimnagar?) term
>"vayyi" for a book. Another term I heard in villages as a kid is "singaDi"
>for rainbow. Don't know whether it is listed in dicitonaries.
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>Ramana
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