Toda :? kušt- (kušty-) "to build (wall of pen, etc.) with stones"
Notes :The correspondence "Kota -t- : Toda -št-" decidedly points to PN *-rt- (cf. *ert, *kartal, etc.), although the presence of such a cluster in a monosyllabic verbal base is somewhat weird.
Kota :kurg- (kurgy-) "to become small, diminished"
Toda :kur_x- (kur_xy-) "to be short"
Additional forms :Also Kota kurk- (kurky-) to make small, diminish; kūr shortness of stature; kūrn short man; fem. kūry; Toda kur_k- (kur_ky-) to shorten (tr.); kur_-es_ Eugenia calophyllifolia (i. e. short-leaf)
Number in DED :1851
Proto-Nilgiri :*kur_-
Meaning :to pound (clay in preparation for making pots)
Additional forms :Also Toda kwɨṭṇ (voc. kwɨṭā) husband, man younger than a woman speaking, man (suffix in proper names) (for restricted use in all meanings, MBE 1974b, p. 39, 5.67); kwɨṭy wife (very restricted use, ibid., 5.66, 67)
Number in DED :1670
Proto-Nilgiri :*kUv-
Meaning :top of a hill, horizon (where sun is at rising)
Toda :kū "food (in song-unit: oṭɵ k/xū ēḍ two lots of cooked food)"
Additional forms :Also Toda kū ɵwɨ̄r_ cooked rice from which water has been drained
Notes :Judging by external data, the early form must have been *kūṛ, but it is possible that the final consonant had been dropped already on the PN level.
Kota :kūṛ- (kūc-) "to join (intr.), gather, meet, assemble, (cows) enter shed, (day) comes close at hand, (wound) heals"
Toda :kūṛ- (kūṛy-) "to join (intr.), have intercourse with, finish (doing so-and-so)"
Additional forms :Also Kota kūṭ- (kūc-) to make to join, summon (a meeting), gather (tr.), shut in (cattle); kūṭm (obl. kūṭt-) meeting, conversation; kōṭ āḷ intimate male friend, woman's lover, man who has a mistress; kōṭāc intimate female friend, man's mistress; Toda kūṭ- (kūṭy-) to join (tr.), close (eye); kūḍ- (kūḍy-) (others than Todas) marry; kūṭm (obl. kūḍt-) meeting of assembly, dispute; mūkūṛ- (mūkūṛy-) to meet (of persons, rivers); mūkūṭ- (mūkūṭy-) to cause to meet (see 5031)
Kota :kūṛ "winnowing basket, a winnowing-basket of grain"
Toda :kūṛ "contribution of a measure (kwāx) of grain, given by each Badaga house to Toda"
Number in DED :1884
Proto-Nilgiri :*Kūḍ
Meaning :the cries or twitterings of birds, buzzing of bees, tinkling of silver chain (TS: ɨr fɨɫ̣xūṛ the cry of a buffalo bird, kūṛ kēfiɫ̣y tinkling silver chain)
