Reconstruction:Proto-South Dravidian/ñān

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 This Proto-South Dravidian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-South Dravidian

Etymology

Back formed from the 1PL incl. pronoun *ñām making a parallel to *yĀn.

Pronoun

*ñān

  1. I (1SG personal pronoun)

Descendants

References

  • Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
  • Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “nāṉ”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
  • Subrahmanyam, P.S. (2011) A Supplement to Dravidian etymological dictionary, Chennai : Central Institute of Classical Tamil, page 157.
  • S. Nair, Ravi Shankar (2013) Tribal Languages of Kerala‎, Language in India
  • Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1981) “ñān”, in Problems of Identification and Classification of Some Nilagiri Tribes: Iŗulas-Ūrāļis, Kāţţu Nāyakas/Jēnu Kuŗumbas, Šōlegas‎, Anthropos
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