Candolim (Goa)

Kon: कांदोळी kāndōḷī ‘Dyke Village’   Town, Goa From Mar: kāṇḍōḷī, ‘embankment’, ‘dyke’; and Kan: halli/valli →oli, ‘village’, ‘hamlet’.  The dykes are a system of raised ridges of earth used to reclaim marshland and capture water for irrigation. Candolim was the...