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PART II. 
THE GAUDIANS. 
CHAPTEE YII. 
Philological Eemarks. 
Having in the first part of my work treated of the Dra^d- 
dians, I have now to deal with the other aboriginal tribes 
of India, whom I have classed together under the name of 
Gaudian. As already intimated, I derive the term Gaudion 
from the root ko, mountain. 
This word ko or ku is of the old Turanian stock. It is 
still extant in the Tamil Qst, ko, mountain, and can be easily 
recognized in many expressions found in Telugu, Grondi, and 
other kindred dialects. Among words which perhaps are 
related to it is the Persian (koh, kuh,) or 6^ {koh, kith) 
mountain ; for Persian, I would remark, contains a con- 
siderable number of Tui'anian words which have their re- 
presentatives in the Gauda-Dravidian dialects of India. 
The Sanskrit word go has many different meanings, most of 
which are also expressed by its Tamil tatsamam ko; but go in 
Sanskrit does not, so far as my knowledge goes, signify 
mountain, while, as already indicated, ko occurs in Tamil in 
the sense of mountain. As the root ko can be traced in other 
Gauda-Dravidian dialects as synonymous with mountain, it 
is pretty clear that the Tamil ko, mountain, is a separate 
word not identical with the term ko, denoting cow, &c. ; and 
that it is not of Sanskrit but of Gauda-Dravidian origin.^ 
1 About the derivation of Gaudian from ko, see p. 41 in th.e previous 
number. Tatsamam is a word introduced from Sanskrit into an Indian 
vernacular with little or no change. 
The word ko is found in Koi, Koya, Eoyi and KSdu, &c., vehich mean in 
Telugu and Gondi a motmtaincer or Gond ; also in Kona, mountain -glen, or 
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