Munda

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English

Etymology

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

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Proper noun

Munda

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

See also

Noun

Munda (plural Mundas or Munda)

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

References

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

View of the river

Proper noun

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

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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

Derived terms

References

  • 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