Taleigão (Goa)

Kon: तालेइगाओ tālē’igāō

‘Tank Village’

From Kon: taḷeñ, ‘small tank’, ‘lake’; and Skt: grāma→Mar/Kon: gaon/gaun, ‘village’.

Under the Portuguese Taleigão was the ‘paddy granary’ of Goa with field after field under rice cultivation.

Cormorants at Taleigão Lake   joegoauk