Crossword-Solution: KURUKH
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| DRAVIDIAN dialect/language | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KURUKH (5)
The Oraon tribe call themselves Kurukh, which has also been supposed to be connected with the Kolarian _horo_, man.
The Dravidian languages, Gondi, Kurukh and Khond, are of one family with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Canarese, and their home is the south of India.
General notice _Oraon, Uraon, Kurukh, Dhangar, Kuda, Kisan._--The Oraons are an important Dravidian tribe of the Chota Nagpur plateau, numbering altogether about 750,000 persons, of whom 85,000 now belong to the Central Provinces, being residents of the Jashpur and Sarguja States and the neighbouring tracts.
The name by which the Oraons know themselves is Kurukh or Kurunkh, and the designation of Oraon or Orao has been applied to them by outsiders.
Halm [357] was of opinion that the word _kurukh_ might be identified with the Kolarian _horo_, man, and explained the term Oraon as the totem of one of the septs into which the Kurukhs were divided.