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Munda

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English

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Etymology

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From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.[1]

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Proper noun

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Munda

  1. An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.

See also

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Noun

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Munda (plural Mundas or Munda)

  1. Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.

References

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  1. ^ Souvenir. (1970). India: Sponsored [and published] by Linguistic Society of India, p. 51

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Believed to be from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Hispano-Celtic.[1]

Pronunciation

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View of the river

Proper noun

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Munda f sg (genitive Mundae); first declension

  1. An ancient town in Hispania Baetica, famous for its battle
  2. A river in Lusitania, now Mondego

Declension

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Munda
genitive Mundae
dative Mundae
accusative Mundam
ablative Mundā
vocative Munda
locative Mundae

Derived terms

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References

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  • Munda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Munda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Munda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Munda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Munda”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly