Articles on Comparative Linguistic Study
Dravidic 'Eating' and 'Drinking'
By L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1936
Dravidic ‘Eating’ and ‘Drinking’” is a linguistic study that classifies verbs for eating and drinking across the Dravidian family. The author notes that semantic classification of related verbs across languages can illuminate the persistence of old words,…
Vedica
By Batakrishna Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1934
The analysis of Vedic stems *kakibh, *kakil, and *kakdbh reveals *kakibh as the original form, with *kakil and *kakdbh derived later. The shift from *kakibh to *kakil aligns with Sanskrit's tendency to replace *bh with *l (e.g., *grah-: *grh-). The stem…
Notes on Dravidian
By L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1931
Notes on Dravidian
By L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1929
The text discusses two main topics: the origins of Mahayana Buddhism and the evolution of case terminations in Dravidian languages. Regarding Mahayana, it questions the traditional attribution of Prajnaparamita texts to the Saila schools, noting the lack of…
Notes on Dravidian
By L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1928
This linguistic study explores several features of the Dravidian languages. In the first section it examines the suffix –ga/–ge found in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and tribal dialects, arguing that it developed from a demonstrative ending and often functions as a…