South Dravidian etymology : Query result

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavaṭi

Tamil meaning : game of leap-frog

Malayalam : kavaṭi

Malayalam meaning : jumping play of children

Number in DED : 1321

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavaṇi

Tamil meaning : muslin

Malayalam : kavaṇi, kaviṇi, kauṇi

Malayalam meaning : muslin, fine cloth to cover the head

Number in DED : 1323

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavar_u

Tamil meaning : dice, gambling

Malayalam : kavar_u

Malayalam meaning : die

Number in DED : 1329

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavar_ai

Tamil meaning : Balija caste among the Telugus

Malayalam : kavar_a

Malayalam meaning : a tribe trading with glass bracelets, baskets, etc.

Kannada : gavar_iga

Kannada meaning : a man of the basket- and mat-maker caste

Number in DED : 1330

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavān_

Tamil meaning : thigh

Number in DED : 1331

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavi (-v-, -nt-)

Tamil meaning : to break down (as the bank of a river), crash, fall

Proto-Nilgiri : *kav-

Number in DED : 1333

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavuci

Tamil meaning : fainting

Kannada : kavaḷi

Kannada meaning : a swoon

Number in DED : 1336

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavun_i

Tamil meaning : gate or fort of a city

Number in DED : 1339

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kavar (-v-, -nt-)

Tamil meaning : to churn (or with DEDR 1325)

Kannada : kavvare, kavvaḷe, kauvare, kōvari, kavaḷi

Kannada meaning : a turning or whirling round, agitation, confusion

Number in DED : 1340

Proto-South Dravidian :

Proto-Nilgiri : *kavĭḷ

Number in DED : 1343

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓakam

Tamil meaning : assembly, college, gymnasium

Malayalam : kaẓakam

Malayalam meaning : a temple (chiefly considered in its political bearings), a temple service; assembly (of village elders, scholars)

Number in DED : 1345

Proto-South Dravidian :

Kannada : kaẓakaẓisu, kaḷakaḷisu

Kannada meaning : to glitter

Tulu : kalakala

Tulu meaning : brightly

Number in DED : 1346

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓañcu

Tamil meaning : a weight = 1/6 oz. troy

Malayalam : kaẓañcu, kaẓaññu

Malayalam meaning : a drachm, weight of two silver fanams

Kannada : kaṇaju, kaṇañju

Kannada meaning : a weight used in weighing coral

Number in DED : 1348

Proto-South Dravidian :

Malayalam : kaẓal

Malayalam meaning : piece of sugar-cane

Kannada : kaẓalu

Kannada meaning : two or three of the upper joints of a sugar-cane that are insipid

Number in DED : 1352

Proto-South Dravidian :

Malayalam : kayal

Malayalam meaning : shoot or branch growing from the root

Kannada : kaẓale, kaẓile

Kannada meaning : bamboo shoot

Tulu : kaṇile

Tulu meaning : tender bamboo shoot

Proto-Nilgiri : *kajǝl

Number in DED : 1353

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓar_u (kaẓar_i-)

Tamil meaning : to thunder

Number in DED : 1354

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓi (-v-, -nt-)

Tamil meaning : to be able (dial.)

Malayalam : kaẓiyuka

Malayalam meaning : to be possible, able, must

Malayalam derivates : (Tiyya) kayivu ability

Kodagu : kayy- (kayyuv-, kayñj-)

Kodagu meaning : to be possible

Tulu : kariyuni

Tulu meaning : to be able or possible

Number in DED : 1357

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓi

Tamil meaning : much, great, excessive

Tamil derivates : (-v-, -nt-) to be great in quantity or quality, be abundant, extensive; kaẓiya exceedingly; kaẓivu excess, abundance, surplus

Kannada : kaẓi

Kannada meaning : to be excessive

Kannada derivates : kaẓiha exceeding

Number in DED : 1358

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓi

Tamil meaning : backwater, shallow sea-waters, salt river, marsh, saltpan

Tamil derivates : kaḷappu shallow part of the sea; kaḷar saline soil, bog; kaḷari saline soil

Malayalam : kaẓi

Malayalam meaning : sea-arm, ebbing brook, salt marsh

Malayalam derivates : kaḷar saline soil, alkaline earth

Proto-Nilgiri : *kaḷ-ĭ-

Number in DED : 1359

Proto-South Dravidian :

Tamil : kaẓu

Tamil meaning : green turf

Number in DED : 1363