Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Tennam

by Edgar Thurston

Tennam.— Tennam (cocoanut) or Tennanjānr (cocoanut tappers) is recorded as the occupational name of Shānān. Tenkāyala (cocoanut) occurs as an exogamous sept of Yānādi, and the equivalent Tennang as a tree or kothu of Kondaiyamkōtti Maravans.