Dravidian Cryptography

[GANESANS at cl.uh.edu]

As one who has studied from Tamil Sangam literature onwards reasonably well
for about 30 years, I want to say that the phenomenon of "inversion/cryptical"
in Tamil is not common at all. May be for some
onomatopoeic words. That's all.

Kannada "hengasu" is from the Old Kannada "peNgasu".
1000s of words of modern Kannada have transformed "p" into "h".

Regards,
N. Ganesan



Once a friend sent me this:
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Kannada		telugu 		English		tamil	Malayaalam
				meaning
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
hagalu		pagalu		day		pagal
habba		pabbamu		festival
haLLi		palle		village		paLLi,paTTi
halli				lizard		palli
haNNu		panDu		fruit		pazham
hancu		pancu		to divide
handi		pandi		pig		panRi
hallu		pallu		tooth		pal
haaDu		paaDu		to sing		paaDu
haaDu		paaTa		song		paaTTu		
hattu		padi		ten		pattu
haalu   	paalu		milk		paal
haaLu		paaDu		bad		paazh
haarihOgu	paaripOvu 	to run away
haavu		paamu		snake		paambu
hiDi		piDi		fist		piDi
hucca		picci		mad		piccu
huvvu		puvvu		flower		pU
huli		puli		tiger		puli
huLi				Tamarind	puLi
hunju		punju		cock
heNNu				girl		peNNu
henDati		penDlamu	wife		penDATi
hoTTa		poTTa		stomach
hola		polamu		farm		pulam(?)
hogaLu		pogaDu		to priase	pugazh
hOgu		pOvu		to go		pOgu
hOraaTa		pOraaTamu	struggle	pOraaTam
hasivu				hunger		pasi
haNa				money		paNam
honnu				gold		ponnu
halsu				Jackfruit	palaa
hasu				cow		pasu
horage				outside		puRam
happaLa				Papad		pappadam
hiTTu				flour		piTTu
hullu				grass		pul
hesaru				name		peyar
hasaru				green gram	payaru
hinde				back		pinde (pinne)
hada (verb)			soften(?)	padam
huNNu				wound		puN
huduga				boy		podiyan
havaLa				pearl		pavaLam
.. {If I had the dictionary in my front I can go on and on...}