Indian Antiquary Vol 38

SR No.: 032530
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 362
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARI.
(AUGUST, 1909.
(a) ! y or yy. Tamil : pulai (pole) + Tel. poyya. Tamil : kuli (pit) + Tel. goyya.
Tamil : nulai (enter) + Tel. núy. Note. - yy is found after short and y after long vowels.
(e) ? is dropped lengthening the preceding vowel :
Tamil : mulangdl and Tel. mókālu (knee-pan). Sometimes, also without compensation-lengthening :
Tamil: kel (low) + Tel. kinda, Tamil : kiļin'dzu (torn) + Tel. tsin'dzu.
1. In Prinsitive Dravidian ? Was only medial and final and not initial.
a. In Canarese, Tala and Telugu bas come to be initial through the dropping of original initial vowels :-.g., Tamil iravikidai (bolice) is ravike in Can. and Tuļu and savika in Telugu, Tamil irakkai (wing) is in Canarese rekke and in Telugu rekla. This tendency is also found in Colloquial Tamil.
3. Primitive Dravidian r is preserved in Tamil, Malayalam and Canarese, and also in Old Telugu. In New Telugu as also in valgar Canarese and Tamil, it is replaced by r. In Talu, d or d3 U is found instead. It is also sometimes dropped. 4. In Tamil is faithfully preserved; but sometimes -
() ? 7 r. (both forms are found).
kayappu and karu (black). kirudu and kiruda (vanity). kořadal and kôradal (praying). koraņi and koraņi (tale-bearer). tapai and tarai (ground). tasuppa and taruppu (white stone). tapuvây and taruvây (proper time).
kari and kadi (to bite).
tapi and taời (etick). (o) !! It.
korram and lottam (triumph).
korrudal and kottudal (digging). In Colloquial Tamil yr regularly tt.
(d) nr m (literary) and nn (Colloquial).
intu and ispai, inna (to-day). enfu and efru, ennu (when). kansa and karta, kanna, (calf). onra, orsai, annu (one). tinți, tippi, tini (food).
nanți, nanni (good). in New Tamil the distinction between r and r is fast disappearing.