Karnataka/KannaDa (was: Karave caste and Kurus)

Wed Jan 10 17:46:55 UTC 2001

Am 10 Jan 2001, um 10:56 schrieb N. Ganesan:

> >ta.npu for "coolness" is never used in modern Kannada: it is always
> >tampu.
>
> Do we have a Kannada example in the reverse direction?
> Ie., Xam + nY ---> XannY where X & Y are Kannada strings
> with one or more letters.

I cannot think of any example right now; on the other hand, I do not
know whether we should consider the difference e / a important
here.

RZ