Khan Saheb Kamal Haasan's Jamaat/Jeba Koottam/Devasthaanam - Part 8

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While cross-lingual distortions happen all the time, the case of 'am' vikuthi is quite unique.

For one thing, the quantum of words affected is a huge number.

Next, it seems to be quite consistent between Thamizh & vada mozhi (i.e. Thamizh always has it while vada mozhi doesn't).

mukh - mukam (face)
man - manam (mind)
hridhay - irudhayam (heart)
udhay - udhayam (rise)

I don't know whether HC-Thamizh-fanatic-etymologists will agree, but my personal theory is all such words weren't Thamizh originals but got imported from vada mozhi. One of my former co-workers used to justify this with words such as prakAsh / prakAsam, telling that Thamizh cannot have any word starting with consonant...(now, let me run for cover)...