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Dravidian Studies VII

Further Dravidian Words in Sanskrit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Extract

In two recent articles in the Transactions of the Philological Society the problem of Dravidian words in Sanskrit has been discussed, and a considerable number of etymologies have been presented.1 Roughly 170 Sanskrit words of Dravidian origin are dealt with in the two articles. There remains an even larger amount of material which has not been touched on in the above two articles, and the bulk of this is brought together in the list of etymologies proposed here. The present article contains 315 items, involving a larger number of words since several words may be treated together, bringing the total number of Dravidian words in Sanskrit dealt with in the three articles to well over 500. This is a very considerable number, and shows that the extent of Dravidian influence on Sanskrit has always been underestimated rather than overestimated. It by no means exhausts the field, and another supplementary list will eventually be necessary. When the subject has been fully dealt with, it is unlikely that the total list of Dravidian words in Sanskrit will be less than 750, and it may well turn out to be considerably more.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1948

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References

1 “Some Dravidian Words in Sanskrit”, TPS., 1945, pp. 79120Google Scholar, and “Loanwords in Sanskrit”, TPS., 1946, pp. 130.Google Scholar

2 See in particular TPS., 1946, p. 8.