Again, SANSKRIT broadcasts + M.Muller

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

--- Lakshmi Srinivas <lsrinivas at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> By the same token, many river names in Tamilnadu
> hardly seem to be of Tamil (or SDr) origin. For
> example, keTilam, vaiyai, kAviri, noyyal, koLLiTam,
> 'kabini' or the Sanskrit sounding names like  pavAni,
> tAmiravaruNi or stems of rivers with -ARu suffixes
> like aricilARu, veNNARu, veTTARu, pAlARu etc..
>
> Are there perhaps acceptable etymologies in the
> literature for these?

Perhaps we must look into Munda, IA, Burmo-Tibetan, etc.,?




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