గుమి

Telugu

Etymology

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Particularly: “Cognate with గుంపు (gumpu, “group”), Tamil குமி (kumi, “to accumulate, crowd”), Malayalam കുമി (kumi, “heap, stack, pile”), കുവിക (kuvika, “to be assembled”), Kannada ಗುಮಿ (gumi, “heap, crowd”).^[1] Also note similarities to Japanese 組む (kumu, “to put together, intertwine”) and 組 (kumi, “class, group”); whether this is coincidence or remnants of an ancient Southern Eurasian substrate is unknown.”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡumi/

Noun

గుమి • (gumi) ? (plural గుములు)

a crowd, flock, multitude

References

"గుమి" in J. P. L. Gwynn (1991) A Telugu-English dictionary, Oxford University Press, page 166
"గుమి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 378

^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “1741”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

[1] Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “1741”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

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