Telugu vari Intiperlu
Sekhar Muddana
>I am wondering about the origins of our lastnames. Does anybody
>have any information of the same. I know that some of these
A lady from my village did her Ph.D. on this subject under Acharya
Donappa. She also wrote a book based on her thesis which I saw in
Novodaya, Guntur for Rs. 75 in 1987. I couldn't afford it then :-)
>are derived from place names (Ex:Ghantasala) and some have a
>meaning in Telugu. For example, one of my friends last name is
>Moolinti. He said that their family had got this name since ,
>generations earlier his family had a house in a corner (Moola).
>I assumed that there was no meaning associated with many of the
>last names. Is that so?
>JaC
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>| \\|// Jagadeesh Chilakapati \\|// |
>| (@ @) Vendor, IBM Sterling Forests (b-d) |
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>All opinions are mine
Sekhar Muddana
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Arvind Patil
: I am wondering about the origins of our lastnames. Does anybody
: have any information of the same. I know that some of these
: meaning in Telugu. For example, one of my friends last name is
: Moolinti. He said that their family had got this name since ,
: generations earlier his family had a house in a corner (Moola).
: I assumed that there was no meaning associated with many of the
: last names. Is that so?
Some related information about this topic:
Last time, when I was in India, I saw
(in "kommaraaju lakshmanraaju vig~nana sarvasvamu
(a library beside AMS and opposite to Osm. Eng. College)"
a thesis submitted to Telugu Univ. exactly on
this topic :- "telugu vaari inTi pErlu". There are
some interesting information about many "inTi pErlu",
and he could come out with some reasoning of very obscure
names.
--
Regards,
Suresh.
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PADMA INDRAGANTI
: I am wondering about the origins of our lastnames. Does anybody
: have any information of the same. I know that some of these
: are derived from place names (Ex:Ghantasala) and some have a
: meaning in Telugu. For example, one of my friends last name is
: Moolinti. He said that their family had got this name since ,
: generations earlier his family had a house in a corner (Moola).
: I assumed that there was no meaning associated with many of the
: last names. Is that so?
: JaC
: o---------------------------------------------------------o
: | \\|// Jagadeesh Chilakapati \\|// |
: | (@ @) Vendor, IBM Sterling Forests (b-d) |
: o-ooO-(_)-Ooo---------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-o
: All opinions are mine
This reminds me of this funny (I think!!) joke my mother used to tell.
The following conversation was overheard:
1st guy :- Mee inti peru emitandi?
2nd guy :- Gundu vaaru, mari mee inti peru emito?
1st guy :- Mee pai vallam lendi!!
2nd guy :- Ante??
1st guy :- Memu "pilakaa" vallam lendi. :)
Padma
PS: Pilakaa varu, gundu vaaru kshaminchandi. :)