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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY, 1909.
(1) Initial m remains in all the languages :
Tamil.
Mal.
Tulu.
Telugu.
manga (dim) ... mațțam (level) ... matça (measure) madil (wall) maņi (jewel) ... ... man (mad) ... ... marundu (medicine) ...
manga ... manga manku matta mata ... matta matta matta matta madil
madil madulu ... maņi ...maņi ... maņi
man ... man manna ... maranda madda ... marda
... manka.
matta. ... maštu. ... madulu. ... maņi. ... mannn.
... manda.
(2) Medial m m (ia Tamil).
sm and (in Caņ and Taļu).
min Telugu.
min Malayalam Tamil tamarai lotus'; Malayalam tamare, Telugu tâmara is both tamare and idvare in Canarese and Tuļu.
Tamil imai eyelash) is ems and eve in Canarese. Tamil timir'to rab'is timir and tipir in Canarese. Tamil pámbu snake,' Telugu pdmu is home in Can. Talo Tamil nám. we'ie ndvu in Canarese. The change of medial m into v is not so common in Tuļu as iu Canarese. (3) Final m m (Malayalam).
sm and n (Tamil).
nu or drops in Telugu. drops in Tala. drops in Canarese, except in the nominative and accusative cases.
For example. (a) In old literary Tamil final m generally becomes n; e. 9., maram maran; aran a ran; kalam kalan. But modern Tamil uses only m.
(6) In Telugu in a few cases m's nu, maram smrdnu, bat idam place eda. vdram vána = rain.
(6) In Tuļu, maram and vấnam mara and oina.
(d) In Canarese them is preserved in the nominative, and in the accusative it is n, but it is dropped in all other cases. Maram, nominative case; muranam, acc., but marake.
In Toļu too, mis preserved as n in the accusative; e. 9., maronu acc. of mara,
