కుడి

Telugu

Etymology

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Particularly: “Cognate with కుడుచు (kuḍucu, “to eat, suck”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “to drink, inhale”), with semantic shift "drink (a merry action)" > "right (direction)".”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kuɖi/
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Adjective

కుడి • (kuḍi)

right, belonging to the right (dexter)
కుడికన్ను
kuḍikannu
right eye

Antonyms

ఎడమ (eḍama)

References

"కుడి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 292
Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “kuṭi”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 151.