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DISCOVERY OF DRAVIDIAN AS THE COMMON SOURCE OF INDO-EUROPEAN
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14. at = go, the going round of the year (JS-19).

JS-19 notes that the meaning of this IE root is related especially to the going round of the year and points out the derived Greek word etos = year (JS-441). In this light note the DR. seed-word attai which denotes: every year (5153-Ta). Note also that most of the words in this group 5153 denote: this year, last year, yearly, two years before last, year after next, next year, etc., which connote the sense of the going round of the year. That the root denotes: go is also correct because atu in Dravidian denotes: to go (347-Ta); atu = to be in motion [[as the year]] (Ka).

15. atr = fire, fire-blackened (JS-19).

The meaning: fire of this root is also pointed out by the DR. seed-word at- = to catch fire (76-Kuwi). Note that the connotation: fire-blackened, and fireplace are also denoted by the related DR. words of at- in the same group 76. For instance, atu = to roast, fry (76-Ta); atk- = to set fire to, burn (heaps of hacked fire-wood before starting poru cultivation) (Konda); atukkalai = kitchen (Ta); atuppu = fire-place for cooking, oven, fire in the oven (Ta); attil = place for performing sacrificial ceremonies (Ta); atuppu = fire-place, hearth, oven (Ma). That there is the connotation of sadness (because the derived word in Latin atrabilious is the translation of Greek word meloncholy = black bile the excess amount of which was supposed to cause sadness) is not without significance, because in DR. itar = distress, trouble, affliction (435-Ta); itumpu = cruelty, oppression, tyranny (Ta); itumpai = suffering, affliction, distress, calamity, evil, harm, injury, disease, poverty (Ta); itar = trouble, grief, impediment, hindrance (Ma); otukku = to subjugate, subdue, rob, restrain (954-Ta); otukkam = gradual sinking (of circumstances, of the powers of the body) (Ta); otukkuka = to finish, destroy (Ma); otuvu = the end (Ma).

16. aud = speak, sing (JS-19).

The seed-word of this IE root which denotes a basic meaning is the Dravidian Kannada word adu = to speak (347-Ka). Note that words such as hymnody, melody, prosody, rhaspody, etc., are derived from this root aud = speak, sing, and this is not surprising because another Kannada word hadu which denotes: to sing (KTK-1648) is often pronounced in the daily speech as adu (note here that KTK-151 points out that adu 4 is hadu 1 meaning: to sing). Further note that yet another Kannada word hadu which is also often pronounced as adu (KTK-151 notes that adu 5 is hadu 2 meaning: a song) denotes: a song (KTK-1648).

17. au(e) = water, wave (JS-19-20).

See under ugu, ud.

18. auku = cooking pot (JS-22).

The Dravidian seed-word of this root is akal which denotes: small earthen pot having a wide mouth [[which is used for various purposes including cooking]] (9-Ta). The related DR. words are akalam = large earthen pot, jar (Ta); aguli = a kind of flat vessel (Ka); agoli = a large vessel (Tu); agle = pot (Ga). JS-22 mentiones Germanic oven in this context. Here, note that in Dravidian avi denotes: oven (App-12-Ka).

19. (aw)es = to grow light (Pei-169-70).

This root is entwined with Dravidian seed-words such as ese = to shine, appear, be brilliant (778-Ka); esagu = to shine, appear, arise (Te); esalaru = to shine, flourish (Te). In Latin, the derived word aurora denotes: dawn. Here note that in DR. er denotes: sun (869-To), and eru = to rise, ascend (as the heavenly bodies) [[as the sun]], climb, spread, be diffused [[as the light of the sun]] (916-Ta); eru = to increase, ascend, mount, climb, rise [[as the sun]] (ka); and the related words in the same group 916 are regu = to rise (Te); repu = morning, dawn (Te). Also note eri = to shine, glitter (861-Ta); erippu = luster, brightness (Ta); erikka = to shine (as sun) (Ma); erippu = sunshine (Ma)

A point regarding another IE root dei = the bright sun, from which JS-54 derives the English word day may also be noted here. Note the DR seed-words of this root dei which are edde = sunshine (869-NK(ch)); ed or eddi = heat of the sun (Go); yaddi = sunlight (Go); de = day, sun, sunshine, time (3774-Br). Note also that from the root dei, Sanskrit Dyus: god of the sky and weather, Greek Zeus (genetic Dios), etc., are derived.

Note also that because JS treats the IE w as u, he writes the root (aw)es as aues = dawn (JS-21). Here, note the other DR. seed-words vev- and vey- denote: to dawn, daybreak (5554-Pa).

20. ayos = metal (Pei-112-3); aios = metal, ore (JS-4).

It is to be noted that JS-4 renders this root as aios and defines it as metal, ore. Pei-113 notes that this root in the form ar develops into ore and a similar Scandinavian form yields ore and ore (coins of different Scandinavian countries). In Anglo-Saxon the root appears as iren from which the word iron has developed. Here note the DR. seed-words ayir = any ore (192-Ma); ayir = iron dust (341-Ma). Note also that the Latin form is aera (aes, from root aer-) which denotes: copper, and that it is a cognate of Dravidian eruvai which in Tamil denotes: copper (817-Ta). Also in Tamil and Malayalam irumpu denotes: iron (486-Ta; Ma).  

 
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