Gond, n. and a.
(gɒnd)
[Hind., f. Skr. goṇḍa fleshy navel, person having this, Gond.]
A. n. a. A member of a Dravidian people, many of them jungle-dwellers, of central India. b. = Gondi. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
The native name is koitor.
| 1810 Moxon in G. Smith S. Hislop (1888) 38 The Gonds..live mostly in the hills and jungles. 1854 S. Hislop Ibid. 167 We found the inhabitants to consist of Gonds and Dheds. 1855 Ibid. 169 The Gond Raja of Dewagad. 1856 R. Caldwell Gram. Dravidian Langs. 8 The Gōnd or Goand. Ibid. 9 The people by whom the Gond and the Ku are spoken. 1867 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study Lang. ix. 327 The wild Gonds and Khonds of the hilly country of Gondwana. 1914 W. H. Rivers Kinship & Soc. Organis. 26 The earliest reference to the cross-cousin marriage which I have been able to discover is among the Gonds of Central India. 1924 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 545/1 Several Gond women washing clothes. 1925 Ibid. Jan. 64/1 The Gond nowadays is becoming civilised and Hinduised. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 18/2 And so among these Gond songs there are many which seem to be quite inconsequential. 1961 P. Spear India vii. 89 The Chandel Rajputs are thought to be of Gond descent. Ibid. xiii. 157 Tribes like the Bhils, the Gonds, or the Santhals carried on their forest and hunting craft. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 25 Apr. 42/1 Bastar is a land of Marias, Murias and Gonds. |