So here are the answers to the QUIZ

1. Ammadiya means amma. You may well ask why the suffix trailing amma. Bunchin will answer that when he is able to some years later. Yes, it perplexes me and the entire khandaan.

2. Appagnya means appa. Please refer the previous explanation.

3. Nunu is poonai(cat). I have heard him say it so many times that when I see a cat now, my mind sees it as nunu!

4. Grrrr: is a bear.It is the sound it makes, because karadi is quite difficult for a kutty paiya to prounounce.

5. Another type of Grrrr is a truck. D says if we listen closely we can make out the difference in the sound. God bless her. I could not.

6. Umta is water

7. gumbe is a ball. Any logic? If there was we are yet to figure it out. D says he will say ball as ball quite soon. But saying gumbe is so charming no? Undoubtedly.

8. ju ju :  It means having a bath. It also means rain. Slight modification of jo jo that we tell a child to denote bathing.And mazhai jo nu kotardu (the sound of rain falling )

9. Gum tak tak; Is a train. It is the way it makes the sound. I taught him as oooo chik chik  with lot of hand movements. This is what he picked up.

10.ko ko: House coat and now also raincoat

11. thatha tata are almost sound alikes:

12.tha means kaanum(not visible) Thatha tha means thatha has left.
Tha also means 'give it to me'.

13. Doppa is anything falling down

14. Koo koo is any bird.Even the seven sisters who are hovering about in the balcony giving such gutteral sounds is koo koo

14. Aah too is  auto

15. thatha cah mama cah are thatha's car which is any sedan and mama cah which is any hatchback.

16.Dee tah dee or di di ta is a classical dance.

17. choo tah  is a scooter

18. baba is a bike

19.Nila is the moon

20.Aathiya is patti

21. The star question is a longish sentence,

atha din din din din atha din din taba, tudi taba

means that he is in a good mood
God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.!

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