Dravidian languages
DRAVIDIAN COGNATES FROM REPRESENTATIVE LANGUAGES
1 752 village r r ru ru
25 2426 to die c- (cett-) sy- sai- cacc-, ca-, sy- (st-) s- (st-)
(satt-) c-
1 752 village r ur *r
22 5270 to come ver (ve-) v-, var- bar- bar-, ba-, *waH-,
bann- *waH-r-
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Dravidian Etymological Dictionary.
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C indicates a consonant, V indicates a vowel, and H indicates a laryngeal. Parentheses following
verbs contain the past stem, while the symbol > indicates that the preceding item was replaced
by the item that follows.
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An asterisk (*) indicates that a preceding word is unattested but has been deduced from
attested derivatives.
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