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Our dear hubbers would like to take intervals from time to time and then steal glimpses of their housewives and girlfriends. Linguistics is after all a very heavy topic!!Quote:
Originally Posted by stranger
Let's have something on track from you, just to demonstrate to them how to put themselves back on track!! Otherwise they will still be struggling with their housewives and girlfriends......
Dear Ms. bis_mala,
Thanks for your deep rooted and well-knit views earlier in this thread :!:
Give me sometime to write about "Jent Avesta" that was marked by me as follow up session in my last message.
Till that time let our disparate/desparate friends gambling here :!:
f.s.gandhi
How right you are :!:Quote:
Originally Posted by bis_mala
Mothers, housewives and girlfriends (and especially GW - a special message to stranger) - Indeed a heavy topic just like Linguistics :lol:
you dont have to remind me who you are in every life of yours! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Azhahan
Trust me, I can figure you out in few posts before the moderators do of course! :cool:
Let us see how long this "half-life" of your new avatar lasts! :)
Take it easy! :)
Aahh........shud've figured it out........Azhahan = Bebeto = Honey Bee = etc. = ..................= BAD BOY! :wink: :P :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by stranger
My compliments Lambretta,Quote:
Originally Posted by Lambretta
it seems that I am not the one and only smartest here in the hub :lol:
Let me see what I can do when the next moderator retires or resigns or even busted by Bad Boy. You should be the substitute :lol:
Last night I thought to myself (yes, sometimes I really do) that I can even make all the polls point less. Just imagine, with each and every new ID I take I cast my vote for my favorite :!:
I again and again prove the Hub heads and the mods that it is absolute nonsense to compare their smartness with that of BB. They once disabled the T-online provider in order to keep me out but in vain. I am their hub virus they can't get rid of. I had been the Jester of Kings and the King of all Jesters. Oh yes, Jester King was also once my ID. :lol: There was a thread where once Surya was wondering about BB's absence. He even did not realize as I asked him which BB he is searching for - Bad Boy, Boris Becker, Brigitte Bardot, BB King and so on. :lol:
They don't learn the lessons well thus I still keep on teaching them adamantly. It is just a hub sport. :lol:
OK, let us get back to the topic.
Sorry (but not really) for the digression :lol:
I hope you all enjoy - I know except The hub heads and Surya of course.
This is a case of derailment rather than proceeding on the wrong track.
Let's go back.
To prove Tamil's elderliness among world languages:
maka (T) = offspring.
maka + kaL = makkaL (people)
makan > mOn son ++
makaL > mOL daughter
makaar = small children.
makavu = child
makaduu = woman. Á¸Þ¯( in ancient Tamil lit and grammar )
makaram * animals: such as: fish, crocodile, pollen of flower
makarantham *= pollen of flower
maka(m) (T) * > mruga(m) (Skrt) ma > mru usual corruption.
* these are t animals or things born or produced in nature.
mac < Irish mac 'son' (MacDonald, MacMahon etc)
Proto-Indo-European *maghos 'young', *maghu 'child, boy'
Old English magu 'child, son, man';
Kannada maga 'son';
Bantu manku, mongo 'child';
Proto-Caucasian *mik'w- 'young one';
Proto-Tibeto-Burman mak 'son-in-law';
Papuan mak 'child';
Natick mukketchouks 'boy';
Beothuk magaraguis 'son';
Acoma mage 'girl';
Cayuse m'oks 'baby';
Modoc mukak 'girl';
Zuni maki 'young woman'
++ note: the word form mOn used commonly in Jaffna and Kerala has
been found in a stone inscription in Lanka, dated to 300 BC (Dr Paramu Pushparatnam ) [ giving from my memory ] Linguistically, the term maka preceded the derivations mOn and mOL. (e.g. pakuthi > paathi, mikuthi > miithe, pukaiyilai > pOyilai, mukadu > mOdu ). It does not appear that the terms mOn and mOL are found in Tolkaappiyam and this is an additional reason for me to think that the grammatical treatise preceded this period i.e., 300 BCE. of stone inscription. Much of the grammar stated in Tolkaappiyam was also not followed in most of Sangam literature. Another reason to say that it preceded much of Sangam literature. At Tolkaappiyar's time, the word for nine (9) was thondu. This word is never found in any Tamil literature as far as I can remember and read and it was only found in Tolkaappiyam. Another reason to think that Tolkaappiyam preceded the last Sangam. But thondu survived in word forms such as thoNNuuRu (thon) and thoLLaayiram (thoL). This and for many other reasons I am firmly of the view that Tamil is a very old language. The submergence (kadalkOL ) was so bad that the ancient Tamils even lost some of their numbers !!
They had their own fractions and names of fractions: kaaNi, araikkANi, munthiri,etc and the ways of writing them. These were ketti eNchuvadi and one was published and available in Malaysia till after World War II according to sources. I am looking for a copy.
Guys, If you know anymore please add to the list.
*DIGRESSION*
U mean for u or the moderator?? I wudn't fancy being either tho.....I'm rather lazy when it comes to tat! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Azhahan
Neways nice talkin to u buddy!
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I've heard of Kaani.......I rem. my granpa telling me abt it, twas a fraction in currency, Kaani, Dhamdi, Paavala (which I think meant 1/4 rupee).......r all these other fraction names also dervied from Tamil??Quote:
Originally Posted by bis_mala
Friends,
CAN somebody link to historical sites that discusses on Asoka dating. I read from a Specific Tamil group which dates Asoka to 2nd Millenim BCE.
Budda is also dated to 1800 BCE.
please link me to discusion papers please.
paulthoumas.