Hydronomy of Tamil rivers (Re: Again, SANSKRIT broadcasts)

[Lakshmi Srinivas]

--- "N. Ganesan" <naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Tamil KuRumbar is cognate with Kannada Kurubaru.
> May be kuRumbar/kurubaru may have something to with
> kuRiJci, the mountain landscape. Today they are
> more like Mullai landscape folks - iTaiyar
> (=intermediate
> people between kuRiJci and Marutam).

iTaiyar can perhaps be thought of as a hypercorrect
form of eTaiyar where eTai comes from the word for
goat (DED 4229 Ta. yATu, Te EDe). Ta. yATu could
however may underlie Skt. yAdava (Southworth).

Thanks and Warm Regards,

LS

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