In South-Central Dravidian, reflex of *pēyaṇ mean ‘god’.
At the same time, there is a widespread word across Dravidian, *pēn, meaning ‘louse’. Gondi lacks a reflex of *pēn ‘louse’, but Kui and Kuwi have it.
So in Kui and Kuwi, ‹pēnu› is homophonous between ‘god’ and ‘louse’.
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