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Originally Posted by thamizhvaanan
oh nice point, i wasnt contemplating on that though! I assume u made a mistake in saying Tamil didn have a dialect, I assume u meant script there. That was my point.
U did mention that sanskrit was christend as such because it was a refinement of an earlier language. A somewat similar reasoning was made to naming of tamil by pavanar. He said, Tamils didn bother to have a name for their language in the beginning, bcoz they werent aware of the existence of any other language. But as they came into contact with outsiders, they felt the necessity for a name, and named their country Tham + Il - thamil. the name of the country was later shared by the language and people also. This was his pt. of view on the origin of the name "Tamil".
Anyway, which of these works came first? panini's grammar text or tholkappiyam? I heard both are similar in their structure!
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Name of TAMIL.
The argument on the Sense of the Word Tamil...as Tham+Il.. is QUITE FUNNY...
...and UNCONVINCING to any Logical perception or Wisdom... whoever mught have meant or said so.
Tham+ Il = Ones Own House... may be relevant to a HOUSE OR A PLACE OR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE..
How can it be attributed to a Language?... which has NO RELATION with .."IL"...!
On this factor.. it was put forth by a Scholar in one of the Tamil- Conferences as below.
Original Name of Tamil was... "AMIZHDHU"... meaning SWEET....
...which in course of time got the Spoken-form as THAMIZH...
While we repeatedly say fast Amizhdhu, Amizhdhu, Amizhdhu... it sounds as ...THAMIZH..
Similar to the case of repeated chanting ... MARA MARA MARA.... becomes... RAMA, RAMA, RAMA.,
This pure Tamil word THAMIZH ..OR... AMIZHDU... is far different from the Sanskrit word... AMRITHA...meaning NECTAR.
MRITHA = Death, Destroyal, End.... AMRITHA means the opposite sense.
It is said that the Nectar was SWEET in taste. So, for all the Sweet substances, people started calling that... as sweet as Amritha.
But by meaning of the Sanskrit word... Amritha has no logical grammar to mean as Sweet.
Whereas the Tamil Word...THAMIZH... has no relation with NECTAR... by its sense as Amritha..
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Such justifications were accepted by the Linguistic-Experts assembly overall.
So Tamil / THAMIZH.... is... AMIZHDHU... Sweet to Speak and Hear.