The name of a place sometimes shed light on the yesteryear life there. Though generations have lived and died there, the name of the place remains immortalised.
There are place names that end with tholu such as Anyartholu, Kuzhitholu, and Nettitholu, denoting places once used for rearing cattle. Mundierumatholu and Putadytholu later shortened to Mundierma and Puttady.
Nagamarettumettu Thozhu is another place name connected to cattle rearing. Thozu in Tamil means cattle stall and is connected to cattle rearing – the main vocation of Tamil people here under erstwhile Travancore rulers. Licences were issued to those from Tamil Nadu for rearing cattle on grasslands and a fee was collected.
