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pakka gotta:gatte, ella gri:n iruttade. Adu aḷḷa hi:ge beṇḍa:gi ho:gade.
Solpa gri:n irutte. Adakke wa:ṭar sapla:i ja:sti idarinda.
(Yes, that forest is a bit mixed. Like the evergreen forest. The trees don’t get
dry next to a river. All types of trees stay green mostly. You can tell, when
you happen to reach a bare hilltop, when you go up a hill, you can tell that
(there’s a patch of) green nearby. That’s the river going around a bend like
this. It’s a bit green. It’s because there’s a greater water supply.)Extract XVII (S)
(AS) Koḷḷa ka:ḍu andare ye:nu?
(What does koḷḷa ka:ḍu mean?)
(JY) Se:ne a:ḷa ade. I:cari beṭṭa, a:cari beṭṭa, madyada ko:sa:ru, adakke koḷḷa
(It’s really deep. A mountain on this side, a mountain on that side, rocky in
the middle, that’s a koḷḷa .)
At fi rst glance, the terms aḷḷa ka:ḍu and koḷḷa ka:ḍu do not seem particularly dif-
ferent in terms of their real-world referents: both seem to indicate what an English
speaker might readily gloss as a ‘riverine forest’. However, it is possible that the
former term is preferred when describing the fl atland forest growing on either side
of a meandering stream. The presence of water in a restricted area, i.e. the actual
watercourse, would cause a narrow strip of vegetation growing immediately on
either side of the watercourse to appear more lush than the plant life further away.
Koḷḷa ka:ḍu , on the other hand, would be used to describe the vegetation growing on
the steep slopes of a deep gorge or river valley, i.e. the relatively narrow space
formed by the sides of two adjacent mountains or hills, at the bottom of which might
be a stream. This defi nition is supported by the respondents in Extract XVIII, who
also note that the slope in a koḷḷa is far more steep that that of a bo:re (see section
on bo:re ka:ḍu , which also refers to a forest growing on sloping land).
Extract XVIII (K)
(JS) Koḷḷa andare ful ḍa:un adu... ḍi:p a:girtade. Ful i: tara... aḷḷa irutte, eraḍu
kaḍe beṭṭa ful irutte.
( Koḷḷa means it goes straight down...it becomes very deep, like this. There’s
a river, there are mountains on both sides.)
...
...
(AS) Bo:re ka:ḍu matte koḷḷa ka:ḍu, ye:n antara ide?
(What’s the difference between bo:re ka:ḍu and koḷḷa ka:ḍu ?)
(JS) Koḷḷa be:re, bo:re andare solpa bo:re. Guḍḍega:ḍinalli baratte, no:ḍi.
( Koḷḷa is different, bo:re means a slight slope. You can see it in hill forest s )
(NG) Koḷḷa andare, idu aḷḷa, koḷḷa, eraḍu i: tara se:rutte
( Koḷḷa means, the river, the sides of the gorge, both meet like this.)
5 Landscape Terms in Solega