The Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (1961; revised in 1984) is a landmark contribution of Burrow and Emeneau to the study of Dravidian linguistics. Here is a modest attempt to provide an improved interface to search this Dictionary. This search allows using extended regular expressions for search term as well as the meaning, besides allowing filtering by the four main subgroups of Dravidian:

My friend Periannan Chandrasekaran and I have plans to work on providing Proto-Dravidian reconstructions to many of these entries. We would like to work on this ambitious project, slowly and methodically.

I appreciate any feedback from the scholarly community.

Regards,

Suresh.