A question on Tamil dialects

DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA narayana at HD1.VSNL.NET.IN
Tue Feb 3 01:00:13 UTC 1998


At 01:06 PM 2/2/98 EST, you wrote:
>I am interested in the colloquial forms of the Tamil word "vai" meaning "to
>scold". In Madurai dialect, when one wants to say he scolded one would say
>"vaJjAn2". (The other word used is "tiTTin2An2".) I have heard a person with
>East Tanjore ancestry using the form "vassAn2". The interesting thing is I
>distinctly hear two "s" es as opposed to "vasAn2" with a single "s". Have
>anybody else heard this form from in East Tanjore or any other dialect?
>
>Regards
>
>S. Palaniappan
>
>

The word "tiTTin2An2" appears to be borrowed from telugu. Perhaps the
legasy of nAyaka rule over tanjAvur. In telugu the form is "tiTTinAnu"
or "tiTTAnu"





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