Where does “ഉള്ളി” come from?

ഉള്ളി (Malayalam) comes from Proto-Dravidian uḷḷi — onion.

ഉള്ളി (Malayalam): shallot; a smaller species of onion

Definitions

  1. shallot; a smaller species of onion

Ancestry of “ഉള്ളി”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Dravidianuḷḷionion
Every word from Proto-Dravidian uḷḷi
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