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  2. Tamil honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Meaning 1st: அடியன் (Aṭiyan) I (low) ... in literary Tamil, is a title used to refer to a brother-in-law. Maccini is its female equivalent ...

  3. Dravidian peoples - Wikipedia

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    It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. [34] In Amaravati in present-day Andhra Pradesh there is an inscription referring to a Dhamila-vaniya (Tamil trader) datable to the 3rd century CE. [34] Another inscription of about the same time in Nagarjunakonda seems to refer to a Damila.

  4. Madras Bashai - Wikipedia

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    Madras Bashai evolved largely during the past three centuries. With the eponymous city's emergence into importance in British India (when the British recovered it from the French), and as the capital of Madras Presidency, the region's exposure to the western world increased, and a number of English words crept into the vocabulary: many such words were introduced by educated, middle-class Tamil ...

  5. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    Peacock, a type of bird; from Old English pawa, the earlier etymology is uncertain, but one possible source is Tamil tokei (தோகை) "peacock feather", via Latin or Greek [37] Sambal, a spicy condiment; from Malay, which may have borrowed the word from a Dravidian language [38] such as Tamil (சம்பல்) or Telugu (సంబల్).

  6. Tamil Lexicon dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Lexicon (Tamil: தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதி Tamiḻ Pērakarāti) is a twelve-volume dictionary of the Tamil language. Published by the University of Madras , it is said to be the most comprehensive dictionary of the Tamil language to date.

  7. List of Tamil proverbs - Wikipedia

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    The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.

  8. Tamil language - Wikipedia

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    Tamil words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc.

  9. Talk:List of English words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    The word 'one' does have clear meaning. In tamil, we can easily able to explain the origin of that word. Because tamil words have a very depth base of each and every word.--Inbamkumar86 11:07, 23 June 2012 (UTC) COMMON WORDS FROM TAMIL: Therkkan - deccan in English Thenpulam - temple Thaekku - teak