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Subject: Canrese, nArAyaNa, -kur/-kUr in placenames
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From: "N. Ganesan"
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--- In IndianCivilization@y..., asharan@e... wrote:
>I believe that various languages of India are due to superposition on
>these tribal languages. In India, there have been numerous migrations
>within. There have been local variabilities which gave rise to languages
>such as Bengali, Marathi, etc in the north ; and Southern Languages also
>like Telugu, Kannar, Mayalee etc are slightly different because of the
>distance, and mountain ranges ( the Vindhyas ) which hindered mobility.
Telugu, tamil, kannaDa, malayALam form the 4 major
literary languages of the Dravidian family, there are
many more in the drav. family but none has literatures
spanning millennia. Tamil literature predates those
in Telugu etc. by about a 1000 years, and has its own
Poetics and Meta-langauge.
It's interesting that you call "kannar"(a) for kannaDa,
the -naDa in kannaDa is related with -nADu in
tamilnADu and karnATaka. Since east Indian languages eg., Bengali)
lack the retroflex L, many times -L- is converted
to -D-. Also, in tamil also this works in the formation
of words a) kuL- "curve", kuLam 'pond', kuDam "pot"
b) toL- "to dig", toDu "to dig", toTTi 'tank', toLai 'hole' etc.
etc.
kannaDa was called Canarese till recently in english
this's from kannar.
Also, nALam/nAr/nADA "reed, thread etc." in tamil.
Another meaning of naL-/nAL- is black in tamil:
nALaNan/nADaNan > nArAyaNa (nAraNanin tamil lit.). We commonly see
Narayana sleeping in the anantha serpent as black.
CilappatikAram calls him black on the nAgam, and
Alvars sing the SriranganAthar as black-jewel(karumaNi).
Also, consider -kur/-kUr ending in placenames of S. India,
this comes from the drav. -kuDi 'hamlet' > -kur/-kUr.
(Cf. kannaDa/kannara, nALaNan(nADaNan/nAraNan)
Regards,
N. Ganesan
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