On 09-Oct-07, at 8:28 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
After all a name like "Viswalingam" would translate literally to
"world-penis", and Shivalingaswamy would be "Mr Shiv's penis" or
some such
thing. And we have people in North Karnataka with names like
"Thenginakayi" (coconut) and "Menasinkayi" (chili)
I recently learnt the meaning of several such regular Kannadiga names:
http://community.livejournal.com/jacemobile/230605.html
Huchamma -> Mad woman
Tippeswamy -> Garbage man
Gundappa -> Grinding stone man
Saakamma -> Enough women
