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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1909.
8 d remains in all the dialects.
Tamil.
Mal.
Can.
kaçal padaya
... kadalu ... pacagu
nadu
i kadal (sea) 2 padahu (boat)
naļu (centre) ... kadai (verge) idam (place) kadu (forest)
Tuļu. ... kadala ... pada ... nadu
kade
...
Telugu. ... kaļala. ... padavāy. ... nadumu. ... kada.
eda. ... kadu.
...
werge)
... kaça
kade
eda ...kadu
kādu
...kada
(4) d 7 r in the North-Dravidian dialects). (8) "In Telugu," Dr. Caldwell says, " there are some instances of the change of a into the hard, rough -. 9.- edu to spoil' (Tam., Can. keda), shoull have for its transitive Sedutsu answering to the Tamil kedukku ; whereas Serut Su is used instead."
(b) In Gondi d regularly becomes ? ; and this ? in some cases becomes dg. Hence the change is d 7. 7 dz.
Tamil d36di"pair'is God dzori.
Tamil nddu (country) is Ghônd nádzu. (6) In Brāhūi (L. S., p. 621) d 7 ; õde. he' answering to the Telugu radu becomes Gre and also ode and odeôre.
(1)
(Tamil, Mal., Can. and Tulu.) and
(Telugu).
Tamil.
Mal.
Can.
Tulu.
Telugu.
kaņņu
...kaņņu
kannu.
1 kan (eye)... ... 2 maņ (earth) ... 3 veņņai (butter) ...
...
kan ... man
maņņu
... manan
mannu.
vennæ
Yenna.
(1) The Prim. Drav. Z has undergone many changes. It is preserved only in Tamil, Malayalam and Old Canarese. New Caparese, Telugu and Tuļu have lost this altogether. Telugu uses d instead as the Caparese and Tolu use?
(2) ! not only changes into and !, but into , 1, and y. In some cases it is even dropped.
