Word history
Wiktionary records తోట (tōṭa) as a Telugu surname. The etymology traces the word through Old Telugu tōṇṭa to a reconstructed Dravidian word for garden. It compares the corresponding garden words in Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil. తోట preserves the modern Telugu form. Thota is a conventional Latin rendering, rather than a separate English compound; the garden sense does not establish an individual’s ownership of land.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
Literal dictionary sense
Native-script forms
తోట · Telugu
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
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