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DISCOVERY OF DRAVIDIAN AS THE COMMON SOURCE OF INDO-EUROPEAN
Page 83
 

Yet another Indo-European root au(e) also denotes: water (JS-19-20), and it is fused with Dravidian seed-words eyu = water (5159-Kuwi); ayam = water, spring, tank, pond (188-Ta); ayam = pool (Ma).

In view of the facts that there are about two thousand Indo-European root-words and that a number of them are variants of one or the other, the testimonies of more than four hundred and fifty Indo-European root-words illustrating Dravidian as the common source of Indo-European which we witnessed above constitute roughly one-fourth of the total number of them. In light of the fact that, as was pointed out in the last chapter, not more than a handful of Indo-European root-words are needed to prove the Dravidian identity of the common source of Indo-European, the reason that we not only witnessed Dravidian birthmarks on Indo-European in the shape of phonetic correspondences, but the testimonies of not a handful but more than four hundred and fifty Indo-European root-words is not to prove the same fact again and again but to demonstrate and illustrate the great antiquity, endurance, and importance of Dravidian to which reference was made in the very first sentence of this work.

It must be underscored that the phenomenal antiquity, endurance, and importance of Dravidian as the common source of Indo-European is further proved and illustrated by the testimonies of hundreds of other Indo-European root-words which are not included in the above noted group of more than four hundred and fifty. Indeed, many more can be realized by just pursuing the above noted Dravidian seed-words because none of them stand alone and isolated but have their counterparts and other related words on phonetic and semantic grounds not to speak of such other grounds as cultural, religious, social, commercial, philosophical, etc. Thus, in spite of ignorance, mistreatment and misrepresentation to which she has been relentlessly subjected for a long time, Dravidian, as the great mother of Indo-European stands today proudly and fully adorned not by the grace of anyone but on her own merit, demonstration, and the proof. And this illustrious mother condemned by ignorant people as an isolated, unrelated, and even an orphan language with no antiquity or heritage, let alone any contribution to the world, is not alone any more but is surrounded by nearly a hundred and fifty of her offspring who are attestedly spoken by considerably more than half the total population of the entire world. Today, from her own birthplace, India, she has summoned them all to her side. Her womb was never barren, she never shifted her loving and watchful eyes away from her offspring, she never severed the umbilical cord that bound them all together, inseparably and permanently. To say that we are all beholden to this wonder of all wonders would be an all-time understatement.

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