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98. gel II = form a ball, lump, cohere, a sticky tumor (Js-110). Some of the derived words of this root are glioma = a sticky tumor, and clam. In DR. Kannada gulli or gulle = blister, postule, small round shell (1795-Ka); gulla = a kind of a small mollusk (Tu); gula = snail (Pa). The sense of a round shape and lump is also denoted by the word gulla which is a kind of round brinjal (1838-Tu). 99. gembh = bud, tooth (JS-111). The DR. seed-word of this IE root is kumpu = bud (1895-Ta). The sense of tooth can be gathered by noticing the facts that in DR. kombu denotes: horn of an animal (2115-Ka), and that even to this day many combs are made of horns of animals. It is not, therefore, surprising that this root has given rise to the English word comb (JS-111). 100. ger I = assemble (JS-112). Pei-155-56 also renders this root as ger or gere but defines it as to unite. While dealing with this IE root JS mentions Greek agora = place of assembly, market place, and an assembly such as a congregation. Here, note the DR. seed-words giru = in a dense crowd (of people gathering) (1980-Ko); kur = to join, meet, assemble, come together (1882-Konda); kur er = to assemble (Pa); gurna = to swarm [[as people]] (Go); kara = parish (1294-Ma); kare = parish [[as a congregation]](Tu); kor- = to buy (2151-Pe); kor = to purchase [[transaction that takes place in a market place]] (Pa). Some other related DR. words are goru = to draw, gather (2231-Ka); gori = drawing, gathering in (Ka). Pei-155-56 notes that Anglo-Saxon crammian becomes cram in English. Here, note that in DR. giraku = state of pressing (as a crowd) (1980-Ka). Notice that the correspondence between g and k is also shown by Anglo Saxon crammian and this root ger. As regards the meaning to unite, which Pei gives to this root, note the DR. words in the same group 1882 such as kur(u)chu = to unite, bring together, amass, collect [[as people]] (1882-Te); kurpu = uniting, joining (Te). 101. ger II = make noise (JS-112-13). JS describes this root as imitative and refers to the noise made by animals and birds such as dogs, crows, pigeon, etc. There are many DR. seed-words in 1852 with which this root is fused. For instance, gurru = an imitative sound (1852-Ka); gurrugurru (gurru reduplicated) = sound of growling, snarling of a dog (Ka); gurane = the snarling of a dog (Te); kurunnuka = coo as a dove (Ma); [[note that JS points out that cur was used of cooing of pigeon, and of the braying ass before it got attached to the snarling of a dog]]; gur- = (dove) to coo (Pa); ghurring = to growl (Br). 102. gerbh = scratch, carve (JS-114-15). The DR. seed-words with which this IE root is fused are goru = to scratch (2257-Ka); gropa = to scratch, claw, a scratch, act of scratching clawing (Kui). That the derived Greek graphein = to write, gramma = a writing, as well as graph, epigraph,, grammar, etc., are derived from this root is proper because in DR. the word giru not only denotes: to scratch, but to draw lines or streaks, a line, streak, stripe (1623-Ka); gira = stroke, line (Te); gere = line (Tu); gir = line, mark (Pa); giri = line (Ga); gir = line (Konda); gira = line, mark (Kui); gira = line on the palm of the hand (Kuwi); garri grinai = to underline (Kuwi); guri = a mark, sign (1847-Ka); guratu = a mark, sign, knowledge (Ka); guri = sign, token (Te); gurutu = a sign, mark, token (Te), and with the correspondence between g and k in mind, note kiru = to scratch, draw lines, scribble, write, mark, stroke, scrawl, writing (1623-Ta); kirru = line, stroke, mark, stripe (Ta); kirukku = to scribble, write illegibly, cancel, score out, scoring out anything written (Ta); kirukka = to erase, strike out (Ma); kuri = drawing, embroidery, spot on the forehead or sectarian mark (1847-Kod); kuri = to mark, take note of (Ka); kuri = to draw, sketch outline in painting, tell, foretell, narrate briefly, mark, sign, symbol (Ta); kurippu = intenction, gesture, summary, mark, sign (Ta); kurippu = memorandum, abstract (Ma); kurp = a mark (made by a person to show he was there) (To). That the root also denotes: carve, is correct. In Dr. karukku = carving, engraving, embossed work (1280-Ta); karu = embossed work, bass relief (Ka); karu = figure, mould (Tu); garra = mint, form (Te); kiru = to scratch, scrape (1623-Ka); koru = to scratch with a grater (2257-Te); kere = to scratch, scrape (1564-Ka). The significance and implication of the fact that Indo-European words denoting such important meanings also have their roots embedded in Dravidian can not be exaggerated. |
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