Dear Vijayasankar ji, I missed reading your mail. Thank you very much for the efforts taken for this Heyne's crotalaria !!! I too have found transliterating foreign word in our mother tongue almost always becomes challenging !!
To avoid any ambiguity, I will go with the fool-proof காட்டு கிலுகிலுப்பை kaattu kilukiluppai Regards. Dinesh On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 21:14:17 UTC+5:30 Vijayasankar wrote: > Hi Dinesh ji, > > The name Heyne is pronounced in different ways, Heyṉ ஹெய்ன், Hēyṉ ஹேய்ன், > Haiṉi > ஹைனி etc. and I am not sure of the correct way of writing it in Tamil. > Is it possible to coin a name based on its flower color (for e.g. blue > crotalaria or Neela kilukiluppai நீல கிலுகிலுப்பை), habitat (e.g. > wild/forest crotalaria or Kaattu kilukiluppai காட்டு கிலுகிலுப்பை) or > other characteristics? Just a suggestion. I checked online for any existing > documented Tamil names but couldn't find any. > > Vijayasankar > > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 9:28 AM Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Superb ! >> Thank you very much Mahadeswara ji for help with the transliterated name. >> I will soon add it to the compilation. >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: M Swamy <swamy...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:46 PM >> Subject: Re: Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil names for Crotalaria heyneana >> Graham ex Wight & Arn. >> To: Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> >> >> >> Dear Dinesh ji, >> >> In my opinion it should be ಹೆಯ್ನೆನಾ ಗೆಜ್ಜೆ ಗಿಡ (Heyne >> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/heyne-s-crotalaria> >> na >> gejje gida ) derived from Heyne's crotalaria >> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/heyne-s-crotalaria> >> . >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 2:10 PM Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear Mahadeswara ji, Vinaya Raj and Vijayasankar ji, >>> >>> *Crotalaria heyneana* Graham ex Wight & Arn. is distributed within >>> India, naturally in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. >>> >>> In English, the name Heyne's crotalaria (or Heyne's rattlebox) - >>> derived from the commemorative epithet *heyneana*, honouring Dr >>> Benjamin Heyne FLS (1770, Döbra – 6 February 1819, Madras), a German >>> botanist, naturalist, and surgeon who worked in British India as a botanist >>> to Samalkot in the Madras Presidency under the British East India Company >>> ... about Dr Benjamin Heyne in Wikipedia >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne>. >>> >>> On similar lines, can we coin commemorative names in Kannada, Malayalam >>> and Tamil ? >>> The rattlebox - in these three languages are following : ಗೆಜ್ಜೆ ಗಿಡ >>> gejje gida, കിലുകിലുപ്പ kilukiluppa, கிலுகிலுப்பை kilukiluppai >>> >>> Here is my attempt for the three languages (merely made use of Google >>> Translate): >>> *ಹೇಯ್ನನ ಗೆಜ್ಜೆ ಗಿಡ* heyn-na gejje gida >>> *ഹെയ്നിന്റെ കിലുകിലുപ്പ* heyninre kilukiluppa >>> *ஹெய்ன்ந கிலுகிலுப்பை* heyn-na kilukiluppai >>> >>> If this does not sound good, it is okay to avoid giving name, or I am >>> open to any other suggested name. >>> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CABSQqC3rR2XgbwV-YzDSHFUtRBZtgaQdAtCWcOqws-go882KKg%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CABSQqC3rR2XgbwV-YzDSHFUtRBZtgaQdAtCWcOqws-go882KKg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/b2813250-ff13-4cb6-a84e-cd3aea72b234n%40googlegroups.com.
