Proto-South Dravidian : *nīg-
Meaning : to separate, leave, quit
Tamil : nī (-pp-, -tt-)
Tamil meaning : to separate from, renounce as the world, put away, reject, put to disgrace, despise, loathe, abandon, leave, be removed
Tamil derivates : nīŋku (nīŋki-) to leave, go, depart, separate from, give up, abandon, pass over, turn away, be warded off, be liberated, released, be dismissed, discharged, be excepted, excluded, go, proceed, be spread out (as fingers); nīŋkal removing, separating; nīkku (nīkki-) to remove, exclude, put aside, dismiss, extricate, liberate, exempt, deduct, turn, draw aside as a curtain, kill, dispatch, destroy, open, force apart, spread out (as the fingers), give up, abandon, change; n. separation, removal, opening, cleft, crack, deduction, remainder, balance; nīkkam, nīkku separation, removal, disengagement, liberation, gap, chink, crack; nīkkal destroying, opposition, disagreement, opening, hole; nīkki leakage; nīppu relinquishment, renunciation, separation, parting; nīmpal interstice; nīntu (nīnti-) to relinquish, give up; nīvu (nīvi-) to cease, discontinue, pass beyond, transgress, break asunder as a chain, destroy; spread
Malayalam : nīŋŋuka
Malayalam meaning : to go aside, go off, go farther, retire, vanish
Malayalam derivates : nīŋŋikka to make to retire; nīkkam removal, departure, retirement, variation, exception; nīkkuka to put away, aside, remove, abolish; nīkki except; nīkkikka to cause to remove, withdraw a complaint
Kannada : nīgu
Kannada meaning : to quit, leave, abandon, give up, get rid of, lose, remove, take away, do away, squander, be got rid of, go off or away, vanish
Kannada derivates : nīgisu to cause to quit
Kodagu : nīŋg- (nīŋgi-)
Kodagu meaning : to go aside
Kodagu derivates : nīk- (nīki-) to put aside, remove
Number in DED : 3685
