Word history
Wiktionary records గిడుగు (giḍugu) as a Telugu surname. The entry connects the surname word with Telugu goḍugu, explicitly glossed umbrella. The two forms have different vowels, so the surname is not silently replaced by the ordinary noun spelling. గిడుగు is the cited written surname. The object supplies a lexical comparison, without establishing a household trade or a story about how a particular family adopted the name.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
Literal dictionary sense
giḍugu: Umbrella.
Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
Native-script forms
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
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