Govala/Golla and tamil KOvalar tribes

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

 Cf. Sanskrit gOpa, gOpA/gOpI.

--- Periannan Chandrasekaran <perichandra at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> There is a very interesting and directly related DEDR entry:
> DEDR #2218:
>
> Te. kOvuramu  ambush, lying in ambush
> Pa. kOp- (kOt-) =  to tend (cattle)
> Ga. kOp- (kOt-) id.
> Go. kOpal, kopAl = cowherd;
>  kOpAl = term of abuse applied  to Gaiki graziers;
>  kOpe = cowherdess
>  koh-  to tend cattle;
>  kohval cowherd
> Kui. kOpa = to tend, herd (cattle, sheep); n. tending, herding
> ?Cf. 1416 Ta. kA. DED(S) 1838
>
> where DEDR #1416 is:
> Ta. kA = to preserve, shelter, watch, guard...etc.
>
> That the aforementioned entry #2218 is not at all annotated
> with any relationship to Skt. gOpAla is puzzling.
> This then provides a basis for reasoning that Ta. kOvalan2
> is indeed Dravidian nothing to do with Skt. gOpAla, which
> raises the question of why did Burrows and Emeneau not
> include Ta. kOvalan2 = cowherd in this entry?
> What gives?


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