man (male)
→
cooked rice
1 realization
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kannada | |
| lexeme | gaṃḍu | |
| meaning 1 | man | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (being as) cooked rice | |
| reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 311 | |
| comment | Another meaning: courageous man, valiant man. DEDR: n. 1173 | |
Presumably, there is a сontrast of "man" as a mature person, to "child" as unripe, not mature and "not fully cooked" one.