Thanks everybody for the origin of the word. Fascinating stuff absolutely. I am
correctly researching an article on Goan tarvottis.
thanks,
selma
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Origin of word
Hi Selma,
The word 'tarvotti' mean seamam or sailer. In Konknni, Tarum' means 'ship',
and the person who works on the tarum 'ship' is 'tarvotti.' The word
'tarvotti' has nothing do with the words of any othe language.
With luv,
Salvador
On 8/15/08, Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:28:02 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Origin of word Tarvotti - help
Can someone help me, perhaps Ven'u, who is good at these things. I'd like
to know the actually meaning of the word tarvotti. I am assuming it is two
To Goanet -
Selma wrote:
I'd like to know the actually meaning of the word tarvotti.
I am assuming it is two words, the genesis being tarv,
and the addition being otti.
The word is an 'apabransha' of the Sanskrit word taranti,
meaning boat.
Related Sanskrit words are taraN and tAraN (where N
. : ) : )
venantius
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] Origin of word Tarvotti - help
Can someone help me, perhaps Ven'u, who is good at these things.
I'd like to know the actually meaning of the word tarvotti. I am assuming
it is two
Can someone help me, perhaps Ven'u, who is good at these things.
I'd like to know the actually meaning of the word tarvotti. I am assuming it is
two words, the genesis being tarv, and the addition being otti.
So if possible, what is the word tarv, is a Portugeuse word absorbed by our
language,
