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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1876.
not so easily receive the authority of Mnir as finished), & curious fact came to my notice. I superior to that of Manu. It often happens will state it in the form of a rule, which I that more accurate research tends to rehabilitate believe to be only a part of a law not less the despised writers of the olden times. My | useful in treating of the Dravidian tongues than contention is (1) that between the languages of Grimm's law has been in the comparison of the Southern India and those of the Aryan family recognized languages of the Aryan family there are many very deeply seated and radical This is the rule :-Initial P of the Tamil and affinities; (2) that the differences between the Telugu is often H in Kanarese, and a corre. Dravidian tongues and the Aryan are not so sponding root exists in the Aryan beginning with great as between the Keltic (for instance) and V, F, or 0-with an aspirate. the Sansksit; and (3) that, by consequence, I give a few examples, taken quite at ranthe doctrine that the place of the Dravidian dom. If these are coincidences, they are at dialects is rather with the Aryan than with the least curious, and students may be glad to have Turânian family of languages' is still capable of them pointed out. defence. I cannot hope for leisure, amid the I believe, indeed, that & close examination weary and continuous labours of a school, to will establish it as a truth that every word work out the subject in detail; but the few facta which in Kanarese begins with H ( letter not here adduced may set at work others who are used in Tamil at all) has a corresponding root younger and have more leisure.
in the Aryan. I may indeed, in the sequel, In this paper I will confine myself to one extend the area of the statement, and lay it point.
down as a fact that every root in the “Ur. I. In preparing a Wordbook of the “Grund- sprache' of the Dravidian languages has a corsprache" of the Dravidian dialects a work responding root in the Aryan. which I am compelled, reluctantly, to leave un. I must now ask attention to the table.
Тампи,
KANAR ESE.
ÅBYAN.
pad; sing. palli, village. pen, female. pag-ai, hate. pô-g-u, go. pal-a, many, pa, flower. pull-u, grass. pul, small, trifling. pêth-ai, fool.
porr-u, bear a burden. 12. perr-u, bear a child.
pêrra, child. 13. pall-am, hollow. 14. pul-ai, defilement."
had. halli. hen. hag-e. hô-g-u. hal-e. ht. hull-a. hul-u. heder-u. hor-u. her-u.
P vad (Fick, p. 159), vates (L.), bardd (81, W.), barz (B.). P villa (L.), baille (balla) (Gael.) fem-ina, (L.), hen; bean (benn) (Gael.). I. feog-ean (ArS.), foe. vag-or (L.), Ba (Gr.). fel-e (A.-8.) [ON-). Piv-(Gr.), phal (8.), flor- (L.), bloom. budov (G.), feur (Gael.). Saul (G.), vil-is (L.). fata-us, (L.). Dep (G.), fer (L.), b'hri (S.) bear,-beir (Gael.). hollow, hole ;-vall-um (L.). poll-u-o(L), de-file-ment, fy11(A.-S.) filth.
bairn.
holl-u. hol-ai.
The general belief is that the substitution of h in Kanarese for p of the Tamil is a modern corruption. On the contrary, the h is found in many ancient words not existing in the preBent Tamil.
I suppose that all words found in Tamil with an initial p, and in Kanarese with an initial h, were originally written with an aspirate p'h. The Tami] has retained the p, and the Kanarese the h.
• The Kanarese have the mme dislike to initial P that - our Saxon ancestors had.
If villa = vic-ula, this must be removed from the list.
I have noticed in my Outlines of Toda Grammar that the Tudas retain the f and the x, and are as partial to those sounds ag'any son of the Cymri or of the Gael.
In another paper I shall have something to say about other roots common to the “Grundsprache" of the Aryans and that of the Dravidians.
Bangalore, January 3rd, 1876. 1 If femina is from fe-o (=produce), compare 19 in the list.
How many words there are in the best Latin dictionaríee of which the derivation is "doubtful" !
