చేమ
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Telugu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *keyampu (“Arum colocasia, yam”).
Noun[edit]
చేమ • (cēma) n (plural చేమ)
- taro (Colocasia esculenta, a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms)
References[edit]
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Dravidians: prehistory and culture”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6
- [1] in A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary by T. Burrow and M. B. Emeneau