Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 INDOLOGY, "Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD" <JLC@C...> wrote: >Medieval commentators explain the exceptions >to this rule as new-comer words. See for instance >the explainations of cEn2Avaraiyar under tol. col. 452, >where he mentions campu, caLLai, caTTi, camaZppu. >This should imply that catir was borrowed by Tamil >from some other language after the age of tolkAppiyam. Quite possible. We do not sadir attested in Classical Tamil at all. Frances Pritchett (message number 1266) suggests it's arabian, while A. G. Menon rejects Tamil origin and says sadir could be persian (message number 1264). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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