Ancient South Asian word for 'cereal'

[David Stampe]

The form that Kalyanaraman cites for Munda
	-kug (Munda) = rice
is incorrect: the proto-Munda form was *ru[ng]kug.  My authority is
a comparative Munda dictionary I am compiling with Patricia Donegan
and Norman Zide.  Neither the correct nor the incorrect form can be
related, even as a loan, to the Indo-Aryan or Dravidian forms that
he summarizes as kaNk.

David Stampe
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Hawaii/Manoa, Honolulu HI 96822