Word history
Wiktionary records కందుకూరి (kandukūri) as a Telugu surname. The entry identifies కందుకూరు as the place-name base and కందుకూరి as the related surname form. The shared sequence is retained in the Latin spellings Kandukuru and Kandukuri, with a different final vowel. The geographic connection supplies the word history without requiring an invented literal translation. It does not show which settlement a particular household lived in or left.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
Literal dictionary sense
kandukūri: From Kandukuru.
Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
Native-script forms
Place name
Kandukuru · కందుకూరు.
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
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