RT @broken_awaken: Rice in Dravidian languages. https://t.co/7w0WCxJJcC
Rice in Dravidian languages. https://t.co/7w0WCxJJcC
@sansbarrier It’s much more complex than that gross oversimplification https://t.co/bv4e62ulJI
Rice in Dravidian. Author: Franklin Southworth Source: https://t.co/lxe43KGVFx https://t.co/QJTfh3jMWQ
@ShriramKMurthi @btbytes Yeah. Bhaath means "Cooked Rice" of likely PIE/Skt origin (https://t.co/jluLP5aIw3). I have seen it being used in the context of "Cooked Grain". Rice Bhaat is redundant, as you pointed out. Just like ಎಳ್ಳೆಣ್ಣೆ, since ಎಳ್+ನೆಯ್ = ಎಣ
@ybharath77 This may not be from the oldest parts of RigVeda(RV). There are a small number of words that seem to be borrowings from Proto-Dravidian(PD). Farming and Cereal terms in Skt have been speculated to be borrowings from PD. See https://t.co/LJO4
@tuticorian @akaasi வரகு, அரிசி, (இ)ராகி எல்லாமே தொடர்புடைய சொற்கள் தான். https://t.co/n1MThMbwHv
@kesarinakha @pvaal2 So how do we know that it's Dravidian? Some core words of Brahui are actually borrowed too - five is punch, for example, likely from Hindi or Punjabi - but we see that some very important things like rice retain their Dravidian charact
@TomWaits4NoMan_ This may be of interest https://t.co/SVO9awp6Au
McAlpin's hypothesis 🤣. Actually, I'll be happy if Tamils were Akkads or Sumers. That would prove the Semitic origin hypothesis of Tamils. Anyways, Dear Cow piss drinker, Tamil's origin is pretty much clear unlike you vagabonds. https://t.co/7dY17vjcWp
Zagrosians 🤣🤣🤣🤣. https://t.co/wmSd1wBqId https://t.co/SbpvnOMWW4
@jaspergregory This article is a recent viewpoint: Rice in Dravidian by Franklin Southworth https://t.co/hoXV2igZwG Also look for Proto-Elamite writing samples (pre-cunieform) and compare to Harrapan writing. You will see the similarities and wrt artifac
@ArainGang The Dravidian toponyms are discussed here. Southern Indian Neolithic crops include millet and gourds, linked with elsewhere; and they were plausibly pretty pastorial as well. https://t.co/wYK2rbXlg0