Munda

From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.[1]

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Munda

1. An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Munda languages

Munda (plural Mundas or Munda)

1. Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.

• Munda languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Munda peoples on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Duman, dunam, mandu, maund, undam, unmad

Believed to be from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Hispano-Celtic.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.da/, [ˈmʊn̪d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.da/, [ˈmun̪d̪ä]

View of the river

Munda f sg (genitive Mundae); first declension

1. An ancient town in Hispania Baetica, famous for its battle
2. A river in Lusitania, now Mondego

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Mundensis

• “Munda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Munda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Munda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Munda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Munda”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly