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‖ Telugu, Teloogoo, n. and a.|ˈtɛluːguː|
Also 8 Telougou, 9 Telug; 9– Telegu.
[Native name of the language, and of a man of the race. Origin and derivation uncertain. The language is also called Tenugu, which native pundits treat as the original form, and explain as ‘mellifluous’, from tēne honey. The relationship of either of these names to Telinga, formerly applied to the same language and people, is disputed. The Tamil name for the language is Vaḍugu or ‘the Northern’; thence the old Portuguese name Badages, and the old German Waruga.]
1. The name of a Dravidian language, spoken on the Coromandel coast of India, north of Madras.
[1731T. S. Bayer Let. to La Croze, Hinc natione Tamulis, Tamulica; Warugis, Warrugica. 1748J. F. Fritz Orient. u. Occident. Sprachm. 87 Alphabethum Telugicum sive Warugicum.] 1813Q. Rev. Oct. 257 Languages and Dialects... Sanscrit..Telug. 1850S. Hislop in G. Smith Life iii. (1889) 82 The Telugu began to be spoken even at that village. 1856Bp. Caldwell Dravid. Gram. Introd. 5 The Telugu is spoken all along the eastern coast of the Peninsula, from the neighbourhood of Pulicat, where it supersedes the Tamil, to Chicacole, where it begins to yield to the Uriya; and inland it prevails as far as the eastern boundary of the Maratha country and Mysore. 1886Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson, Teloogoo, the first in point of diffusion, and the second in culture and copiousness, of the Dravidian languages of the Indian Peninsula. Ibid., Telugu is the name given to the language by the people themselves, as the language of Telingāna. 1893Madras Manual of Administr. III. s.v., Teloogoo is the softest of all Eastern languages..but Teloogoo is a very poor language in every⁓thing except outward appearance. 1937W. H. Saumarez Smith Let. 31 Jan. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 54 Kanarese is the vernacular of Mysore, a language allied to Tamil and Telegu. 1957Encycl. Brit. IV. 978/1 Great movements of people: the Telegu- and Tamil-speaking caste groups to the rubber plantations of Burma and Malaya. 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions i. i. 17 He picked up a number of tongues..Tamil, Gujerati and Telegu from the southerners.
2. One of the Dravidian people or race who speak this language. (See also gentoo.)
1789Seir Mutaqherin II. 93 note (Y.), The first Sipahees that came in Bengal..were all Talingas or Telougous born. 1893Madras Manual of Administr. III. s.v., The pronunciation of Sanscrit among the Teloogoos corresponds with the purest pronunciation used at Benares. 1903J. Torrance Story Maratha Missions viii. 65 A Telugu applied for baptism.
3. attrib. or adj. Of or pertaining to this language, people, or country.
1816A. D. Campbell (title) A grammar of the Teloogoo language. 1821― Dict. Teloogoo Language, Advt., The following Dictionary was commenced soon after the publication of the Author's Teloogoo Grammar. Ibid. Many of the most common Teloogoo words are arranged, absurdly enough, in the order of the French, and not of the Teloogoo, alphabet. 1888G. Smith S. Hislop iii. (1889) 83 The Hislops marched slowly south to Nellore, the Telugu station of his Church. 1891C. R. Day Music of S. India v. 61 They..were probably composed by some Telegu pandit at the court of Mysore. 1909E. Thurston Castes & Tribes S. India VII. 13 The Telugu soldiers might come to be regarded as the Telugus..par excellence. 1977Listener 7 Apr. 447 Publishing Telegu books largely for Indians in the Midlands.
4. Comb. as Telugu-speaking adj.
1903United Free Ch. Scot. Mission. Record Aug. 352/2 There are always in them Telugu-speaking girls. |