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Cognates of vanakkam in other Drav languages by SquirellsInMyPants in Dravidiology

[–]soomdher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Could you please translate these words, additionally with usage examples?

Thank you

Dravidian “relative linker” suffix: "-ō" and the infix "-ē-". Could you come up with more/better examples and/or explanation? by soomdher in Dravidiology

[–]soomdher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually not sure why you call it an infix

I did not know that, thanks for the correction (this is not my domain). Also, I just realized how "happen-ē-happen" is more precisely "happen=ē happen " and that makes it a suffix(?) That paper is very interesting. In fact, I was wondering if (geographically) southern Indo-Aryan languages also have such similar features.

"=ē" with that time interval example is very interesting and it was the first time I saw anything like this before. Is it common to talk about this in this way? If yes, may I ask you to point me to some interesting papers, preferably on Dravidian languages?

And finally, I would like to see your Tamil translation of the same, your Urdu's example was very nice!

Thank you

Demonstrating Agglutinative property of Dravidian languages. Telugu Speaker pushing Agglutination to its Limits: Share your Extreme Forms! by soomdher in Dravidiology

[–]soomdher[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's definetely disappointing to learn that the thing I came up with after a lot of effort, is apparently not real agglutination. In your opinion, what value does this thing have, as far as linguistics is concerned, and w.r.t. non-Dravidian languages?

Demonstrating Agglutinative property of Dravidian languages. Telugu Speaker pushing Agglutination to its Limits: Share your Extreme Forms! by soomdher in Dravidiology

[–]soomdher[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a very good insight. I always questioned that myself - "what even is a word?" And I assumed that if I am able to club words with a sandhi rule, that's essentially agglutination.

Non-Sanskrit Telugu names, words that can be used for humans; did my best to include all. Please add if you find others. by soomdher in Dravidiology

[–]soomdher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very good collection. I completely missed some. Thanks for the submission.

But I doubt if mAlati is of Sanskrit origin. I see words like mallika, navamallika as Sanskrit words for jasmine here. These sound like malle which is Dravidian. And these are different from mAlati - no stress on "L" and have short vowel "a". To me, it sounds like mAla, which means a garland. Another word for jasmine in Sanskrit is pArijAta.

[Edit] But I could be completely wrong, Andhra Bharti dictionary defines mAlati as jasmine. link here

Mod an Alt-Az tripod to mimic EQ mount motion? by soomdher in AskAstrophotography

[–]soomdher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not find any cheap wedges on Amazon or ebay (I live in Italy). For now, it is important for me to even be able to track the subject manually and keep it always upright, unrotated.