తమ్ముడు

Inherited from Old Telugu తమ్మున్ౚు (tammunṟ̄u). By surface analysis, తమ్మి (tammi) +‎ -డు (-ḍu). Ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *tampV. Cognate with Tamil தம்பி (tampi), Kannada ತಮ್ಮ (tamma), and Malayalam തമ്പി (tampi).

• IPA^(key): /t̪amːuɖu/

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తమ్ముడు • (tammuḍu) m (plural తమ్ములు)

1. younger brother

• అనుజుడు (anujuḍu)

• అన్న (anna)

• "తమ్ముడు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 510
• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “tampi”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 268.