u/Maleficent_Bison204

Laanjuka and Raanjuka

Eventhough I know raanjuka is dravidian origin I just checked out it's origin and found out it is from laanjuka which is related to aanjuka and L to R sound shift happened but it says Laanjuka heavily implied a continuous, wavy, or sliding physical motion (like water swaying or a bird drifting on wind currents). Raanjuka evolved to explicitly denote the final, violent act of aggression (snatching or pouncing).

Does anyone ever heard about this form laanjuka?Does it is used in any songs or poems?

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 11 days ago

Sanskrit word I want to be a native malayalam word

I really love the sanskrit word 'Praana' meaning life and in malayalam 'praanan', 'praanavaayu'. This word is so poetic and aesthetic I really wish it were a paccha malayalam word.

Does there is any loanwords you wish like this in malayalam?

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 12 days ago

why Telugu did this

Many native Telugu term's initial position stops get voiced through evolution and also in kannada. Proto Dravidian language didn't started word with voiced stops and didn't had geminated voiced stop clusters like gg, jj, dd

Palli in malayalam/tamil is balli in telugu

Kurichu in malayalam is gurinchi in telugu

Chaaruga in malayalam is jaaraga in telugu

Torakkuga in malayalam is dorikindu in telugu.

And also the double voiceless stops gets voiced like abbaayi, muddam, gadda, mobbu, majjige, kobbu etc. Personally I felt it like artificial cause for voicing an initial unvoiced consonant you need to put extra effort to it, especially on double voiceless stops and yeh, languages do it automically on some words evolutionarly like there are some words in malayalam too but doing it very much is something made me curious. Is there any reason for this evolution?

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 1 month ago

Does there are any malayalam words in tulu

Tulu is closer to malayalam region and there are some tulu words in kasargod dialect of malayalam so I'm just curious does there are any malayalam words used in tulu

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 1 month ago

Native malayalam words related to talk/speak etc

Tell in comments if you have any opinions and only some necessary words related to speak and talking are mentioned here. First words here will be native word and second one will be current used word for it in malayalam and it's origin

1.Say പറയുക (Paṟayuga)- പറയുക (Paṟayuga) dravidian

2.Talk (Respond) മിണ്ടുക (Miṇḍuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit

3.Talk (Converse) സൊള്ളുക (Soḷḷuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit

4.Speak (Continuous) പേശുക (Pēshuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit

5.Conversation സൊറ (Sora)- സംഭാഷണം/വർത്തമാനം sanskrit

6.Reciting ചൊല്ലുക (Cholluga)- ചൊല്ലുക (Cholluga) dravidian

7.Chanting ഉരുവിടുക (Uruviḍuga)- ജപിക്കുക (Japikuga) sanskrit

8.Declare മൊഴിയുക (Mozhiyuga)- പ്രസ്താവിക്കുക (Prasthāvikuga) sanskrit

9.Converse (Exchanging) ഉരിയാടുക (Uriyāḍuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit

10.whisper/advice ഓതുക (ōduga)- ഓതുക (ōduga) dravidian

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 2 months ago

Native malayalam words related to talking/speaking

First one is native word and after I'll write the word in today's malayalam

1.Say പറയുക (Paṟayuga)- പറയുക (Paṟayuga) dravidian 2.Talk (Respond) മിണ്ടുക (Miṇḍuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit 3.Talk (Converse) സൊള്ളുക (Soḷḷuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit 4.Speak (Continuous) പേശുക (Pēshuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit 5.Conversation സൊറ (Sora)- സംഭാഷണം/വർത്തമാനം sanskrit 6.Reciting ചൊല്ലുക (Cholluga)- ചൊല്ലുക (Cholluga) dravidian 7.Chanting ഉരുവിടുക (Uruviḍuga)- ജപിക്കുക (Japikuga) sanskrit 8.Declare മൊഴിയുക (Mozhiyuga)- പ്രസ്താവിക്കുക (Prasthāvikuga) sanskrit 9.Converse (Exchanging) ഉരിയാടുക (Uriyāḍuga)- സംസാരിക്കുക (Samsārikuga) sanskrit 10.whisper/advice ഓതുക (ōduga)- ഓതുക (ōduga) dravidian

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 2 months ago

Found a new word for light

Apart from velicham and vettam I found another malayalam word for light

In old tamil ilangu meant shine, bright etc and it is cognitive of malayalam ലങ്കുക(languga) meaning same and also old tamil uses ilakkam for light, brightness etc and these words are from proto Dravidian root *el/il means light, brightness as like *oli and it's also seen in telugu/kannada enda meaning daylight/sunlight, so ilakkam meaning light became probably lakkam in malayalam which will be a new word for light in malayalam and I know lakkam means issue/version in malayalam but eventhough I don't agree linguistics connect it to sanskrit lakshya but here it is from a clear stated dravidian root *el/il so lakkam meaning light and meaning mark/issues maybe have different etymologies or maybe they are counterpart words of same etymologies and lakkam meaning issue/mark/numbers got mistaked as sanskrit loanword

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 2 months ago

പൊതുവെ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന സംസ്‌കൃത വാക്കുകൾ ഡെ പച്ച മലയാള വാക്കുകൾ എന്താണ്

Aatmahatya, jeerakam, mrugam, Suryakanti, shuklam, beejam, andam, talkaalam, malsaram, santosham..

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 3 months ago

REFORMING MALAYALAM

Why don't we reform malayalam script and avoid the pronouncation mistakes we make in other languages like pronuncing hunting as hunding or deepika as deebiga or aparna as abarna etc

Let's start to write malayalam script as like telugu and kannada script(written as like how it is pronounced) except sanskrit words

For eg a sentance like: "രാമു കാലതെ പാഡത്ത് ഒള്ള പറമ്പ് ലേകി കളികാൻ പോയി നേരം ഒരുബാഡ് വൈഗി അപ്പോൾ രാമു കഡേ ല് നിന്ന് അമ്മ പറഞ്ഞ പഞ്ചസാര വാങി നേരെ വീട ലേകി പോയി"

We use ങ്ക, ഞ്ച, ണ്ട, ന്താ, oപ for nka, ncha, nta, nta and mpa and oഗ, ഞ്ജ, ണ്ഡ, ന്ദ, മ്പ for nga, nja, nda, nda and mba

Like ദാoപത്യം, തoഗം, അഞ്ജ്, മുന്ദിരി, ചൂണ്ഡ

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u/Maleficent_Bison204 — 3 months ago