165Extract XXVI
(MRM) Dimba endivẽlla?
(We say dimba , don’t we?)
(BG) I:ga idu me:le malaki beṭṭa, adu bo:ḷi, keḷage—malaki beṭṭa:d.inda
itta:ka dimba. e:vada—kancaḷa dimba. Me:leka beṭṭa, keḷeka kancaḷa
dimba allava?
(So, above we have Malaki mountain, with grassland , and below—this
side of Malaki mountain is a dimba. Which one— Kancaḷa dimba. Malaki
mountain, and below, Kancaḷa dimba.
(MRM) I: maṭṭa:ga:ḍiga dimba.
(The fl atland forest is called a dimba .)
(JY) Beṭṭa me:le a:gi, keḷage ondu ma:ḷa ada:darinda adu dimba.
(When there’s a mountain above, and an open forest below, that’s a
dimba .)
(MRM) Ã. Idu gaṇṭe dimba, matti arre dimba, e:role dimba, allinda bandu illi...
(That’s right. Gaṇṭe dimba , matti arre dimba , e:role dimba , and if you
come this way...)
(BG) E:ru kallu dimba. A: tara. A:mele, idu soreka:ye beṭṭa ittaka,
du:managadde. Adu gaddeve.
( Eru kallu dimba. Like that. And then, this side of Soreka:ye mountain,
there’s Du:managadde. That’s also just fl at marshy land.)
...
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(MRM) Saṇṇa guḍdeyinda keḷaka iddale adu maṭṭaga:ḍu... dimba ka:ḍu alliga.
Maṭta pu:ra banda:della, beṭṭa:dinda aḍi:li, adakkella dimba ka:ḍu.
(There’s fl atland forest when you go down small hills... that’s called
dimba ka:ḍu. It’s totally fl at, right, at the base of a mountain, all that’s
called dimba ka:ḍu .)
(BG) Ã dimba ka:ḍu. A: dimba ka:ḍinalli, e:na—tho:pu.
(Yes, dimba ka:ḍu. And that dimba ka:ḍu becomes— tho:pu .)
(MRM) Avella se:rdale tho:pu ka:ḍu.
(When it all joins up, it’s a tho:pu ka:ḍu .)
In the previous extract, BG and MRM were joined by JY, who joined the conver-
sation briefl y to explain a couple of lexical items. In the following extract, the young
men agree with BG’s defi nition of dimba. JS goes on to contrast fl at mountain- and
hilltops with pointed ones.
Extract XXVII
(NG) Dimba andare maṭṭa.
( Dimba means ‘fl at’.)
(JS) Pla:ṭ irutte. I:ga beṭṭa irutte solpa... solpa slo:pa:gi uṭṭu pla:ṭ irutte,
no:ḍi.
(It’s fl at. Now, there’s a mountain, it slopes (up) a bit, and becomes fl at, see?)
(NG) Adakke daṭṭa ka:ḍu, daṭṭa ante:ḷi andare sama:na:va:gi.
(That’s a daṭṭa ka:ḍu , daṭṭa means ‘level’)
5.5 Landscape/Forest Terms and Seasonality