190 W. Haig— Vocabulary of the Gdndi mid Kolami Languages. [No. 3, 
English. 
Gondl. 
• • 
Kolami. 
Son 
mart 
bald ( H. M.). 
Spear 
bartshi (M.) 
bar si ( M.). 
Stone 
banda 
ghu$. 
Teak 
tekd 
tek. 
Throat 
ghoti 
4o4dr. 
Tiger 
burkal 
pull. 
Tooth 
palk 
pal (s.) pdlkul (ph). 
Tree 
mar a 
mdk. 
Turban 
pagotd (Mi) 
dzdde. 
• 
Village 
ndr 
ur. 
Waist 
nadi 
• 
tikdne , mulke (small of 
• 
the back.) 
Water 
yer 
ir. 
Wife 
bdeko (M.), navari 
koldmd. 
Wine 
kallu 
sard. 
Wolf 
Idndgyal ( M .) 
Idndgd (If.). 
NUMERALS. 
One 
undi 
okkod. 
Two 
rand 
• 
indirj. 
Three 
mund 
mundig. 
Four 
nalic 
ndlirj. 
Five 
siyurj 
aid. 
Six 
sarurj 
dr. 
Seven 
yerurj 
sat ( H. M.). 
For numbers above seven the Marathi numerals are used. I have 
made careful 
inquiries on this point, and 
have always been told by 
Gonds that they have no numerals of their 
own above seven except nur 7 
which means 
“ a hundred ” and seems to be used as a collective noun. 
The Kolami numerals go no higher than six. 
POINTS OP THE COMPASS. 
East 
pbddpaise 
palldm. 
West 
phurdyin 
pbdelarj. 
South 
talavaddd 
met-ldrj. 
North 
girayin 
teldrj. 
There is little to he said regarding the vocabulary. 
It is strange that the Gonds have not preserved their own names 
for the bow and arrow, weapons on which they probably relied for 
food and self-protection long before their speech could have been 
influenced by the tongues from which the names now given to those 
