Dravidiologist

English Etymology From en Dravidian<alt:Dravidi(an)> ologist. Noun One who studies Dravidian languages. en w:Jules Bloch Ramkrishna Ganesh Harshé Introduction The Grammatical Structure of Dravidian Languages Deccan College Hand-book Series 3 Poona, Maharashtra Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute May 1954 xxx https://archive.org/details/BlochTheGrammaticalStructureOfDravidianLanguages1954/page/n31/mode/1up I have tried to readjust, to a certain extent, the perspective without any other ambition than to furnish to the future Dravidiologists a cadre preparatory to more profound studies and to the linguists, curious to compare various types of languages, the elements of a portrait that has remained characteristic inspite of the inequality and the divergence of the development undergone by several members of the family. en Gustav Glaesser Linguistics: M. S. Andronov, Dravidian Languages (Translated from the Russian by D.M. Segal- Languages of Asia and Africa Series - Under the General Editorship of Prof. G.P. Serdyuchenko . U.SS.R. Academy of Sciences - Institute of Oriental Studies - Moscow, « Nauka » Publ. House, Central Department of Oriental Literature, 1970, 200 pp.). w:Giuseppe Tucci East and West 22 1–2 March 1972 Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente<t:Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East> June 1972 158 https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.06005/page/158/mode/1up 2 What is envisaged and what this eminent Soviet Dravidiologist is speaking in favour of, is a future pan-Indian language, but it is feared that this will remain a myth of the future just as the Dravido-Uralian Ur-Sprache was nothing more than a myth of the past. en S.N. Kandaswamy The Cult of Murukan in Paripāṭal Tamil Literature and Indian Philosophy Chennai, Tamil Nadu w:International Institute of Tamil Studies 2001 315 https://archive.org/details/dli.jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZU0kJUy.TVA_BOK_0006120/page/315/mode/1up The eminent Dravidiologists like M.B. Emeneau and T. Burrow treated “Kumaraṉ” as a Dravidian word from the root kom[mai] meaning the youthful and beautiful. en S. N. Kandaswamy Tēvāram Sundarar (Patikams 1-50) Paṉṉiru Tirumuṟai, volume XIV, part I; Silver Jubilee Celebration Series, 14 Chemmancherry, Chennai Institute of Asain Studies 2006 115 https://archive.org/details/tevaramsundararpatikams1-50/page/n127/mode/1up 81-87892-23-4 The word 'pūcaṉai' is already used in Tirukkuṟaḷ (18), in the sense of worship. Some modern Dravidiologists derived the word from 'pū+cey', meaning the flower-offering which is peculiar in South Indian temples. Related terms en Dravidiology