Proto-South Dravidian : *toẓ-
Meaning : work, business; trade
Tamil : toẓil
Tamil meaning : act, action, deed, work, office, calling, profession, order, command, workmanship, verb
Tamil derivates : toẓīi working woman, maidservant, female slave; toẓukkan_ slave; toẓuttai slave-woman, immoral woman, maid-servant; toẓumpan_ slave, base person; toẓumpi slave-woman; toẓumpu slavery, servitude, servile work, drudgery, devotion to the service of god; toẓuvar servants, agriculturalists, ploughmen; toẓun_i servant woman; toṇṭu slavery, devoted service, slave, devoted servant; tottan_ slave; tottu slave, dependent, menial, concubine
Malayalam : toẓil
Malayalam meaning : business, occupation
Kannada : tuẓil
Kannada meaning : work, servitude, slavery
Kannada derivates : toẓtu, tottu (a male, but esp. also a female) servant, a strumpet
Tulu : toḷilụ
Tulu meaning : trade, business
Tulu derivates : tonduni, dunduni to work hard; tottu maid servant; sonduni to exert, labour, work hard; sondu exertion, effort
Number in DED : 3524
