| Tamil
West |
Aryan |
| um-undu |
E.
and G, und |
| Cf.
tannin |
OE.
then, E. than |
Proximate
Demonstratives:
| Tamil |
West
Aryan |
| i-idu |
L.
hic, hice, E. this, G. dieser |
| ivai |
E.
these. |
| iŒgu |
L.
hic, D. hier, Cr. hier. |
| id†˜ |
AS.
hider, Goth. hidre,
L.citra. |
Remote Demonstratives:
| Tamil |
West
Aryan |
| a-adu |
E.
that, D. dat, G. dass,
Lith.tas, ta; Russ. ta, Goth.
sa, Ice. sa. |
| avai
|
AS.
tha |
| anda |
E.
that, Ice, that, G. das,
Goth. thata. |
| aŒgu |
ME.
thas, Ice. thar, Goth.
thas, G. da, D. dan. |
| ad†˜ |
Ice.
thadra, Goth. thathro |
| a‹Šu |
OF.
thanne, D. dan. G.
dann. |
Many, if not
most Aryan demonstratives are not regular
in demonstrating proximity or remoteness
according to their
base-vowels. This is only a sign of their
corruption from
Tamulic originals.
“Primitive
underived Indo-Europeanisms discoverable in the Dravidian
languages”
“(1) The use
of n, as in Greek, to prevent hiatus.
(2) The existance
of gender in the pronouns of the third
person and
in verbs, and in particular the existence of
a neuter gender.
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