A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages c8.26

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c8.26

*Three.*—The neuter noun of number signifying three or a triad is in Canarese *mûru*; in Telugu *mûḍu*; in Tamil *mûnru* (pronounced *mûndru*, *mûndu*, and *mûnu*); in Coorg *mûndu*; in Malayâḷam *mûnn’*; in Tuḷu *mûji* (*j* in Tuḷu regularly represents *r*; com. *âji*, six, with *âru* in the other dialects); in Gônd it is *mûnd*; in Tuda *mûd*; in Ûrâon *man-otan*.

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