Reconstruction:Proto-South Dravidian/ñān

This Proto-South Dravidian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-South Dravidian

Etymology

Back formed from the 1PL incl. pronoun *ñām making a parallel to *yĀn.

Pronoun

*ñān

  1. I (1SG personal pronoun)

Descendants

  • Southern:
    • Tamil-Kannada:
      • Old Kannada: ನಾನ್ (nān), ನಾನು (nānu)
        • Badaga: ನಾ (nā), ನಾನು (nānu)
        • Jennu Kurumba: ನಾನು (nānu)
        • Kannada: ನಾನು (nānu)
        • Sholaga: ನಾನು (nānu)
      • Tamil-Kodagu:
        • Irula-Muduga:
          • Irula: நா (nā), [script needed] (nānu)
          • Muduga: നാനു (nānu)
            • Attapady Kurumba: നാ, നാനു
        • Kodava: ನಾನ್ (nānŭ), ನಾ (nā)
        • Tamil-Malayalam:
          • Malayalamoid:
            • Aranadan: ഞാ
            • Kurichiya: നാ (nā), നാൻ (nāṉ)
            • Malavedan: ഞാനു (ñānu)
            • Malayalam: ഞാൻ (ñāṉ), നാൻ (nāṉ) — early inscriptional
            • Mullu Kurumba: നാനു
            • Ravula: നാനു (nānu)
          • Tamiloid:
  • South-Central:

References

  • Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
  • Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “nāṉ”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
  • Subrahmanyam, P.S. (2011) A Supplement to Dravidian etymological dictionary, Chennai : Central Institute of Classical Tamil, page 157.
  • S. Nair, Ravi Shankar (2013) Tribal Languages of Kerala‎[1], Language in India
  • Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1981) “ñān”, in Problems of Identification and Classification of Some Nilagiri Tribes: Iŗulas-Ūrāļis, Kāţţu Nāyakas/Jēnu Kuŗumbas, Šōlegas‎[2], Anthropos
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