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నీరి (nīri)
- wet, fertile
- Budaraju Radhakrishna (1971) “నీరి”, in Early Telugu Inscriptions (up to 1100 A.D.) with Texts, Glossary & Brief Linguistic History., Kalabhavan, Saifabad, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi, page 365.