Reconstruction:Proto-South Dravidian/mām
Proto-South Dravidian
editEtymology
editNoun
edit*mām
- mango tree
Descendants
edit- Kannada: ಮಾ (mā), ಮಾಂ (māṃ), ಮಾವು (māvu)
- Malayalam: മാ (mā), മാവ് (māvŭ)
- Tamil: மா (mā), மாம் (mām)
- Telugu: మావి (māvi)
Derived terms
edit- *mā-m-kāy
- Unsorted forms
- Kannada: ಮಾವಿನಹಣ್ಣು (māvinahaṇṇu), ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ (māvinakāyi)
- Telugu: మామిడి (māmiḍi)
- → Sanskrit: माकन्द (mākanda)
References
edit- Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 530.
- Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “māṅkāy”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.