Tamil derivates :mīḷi king, chief, strong man, great man; strength, valour, etc.
Malayalam :(?) meẓukka
Malayalam meaning :to shine with fat, thrive, grow stout
Malayalam derivates :(?) meẓuppu lustre, brilliancy, stoutness; meẓuppikka to fatten
Kannada :miḷir
Kannada meaning :to prosper, flourish, increase or grow greatly, become powerful
Tulu :(?) meliyuni
Tulu meaning :to become rich
Notes :B&E put Malaylam meṛukka, etc., here, but the comparison is hardly possible for phonetical reasons. It would be interesting to compare the forms, however, with PSDR *meṛ- 'to smear' ('smear, anoint' ==> 'shiny, glistening').
Number in DED :4872
Proto-South Dravidian :*mīḷ-
Meaning :to return
Tamil :mīḷ (mīḷv-, mīṇṭ-)
Tamil meaning :to return, disappear, vanish, be cured as of a disease, be rescued, redeemed, liberated, pass beyond
Tamil derivates :(mīṭp-, mīṭṭ-) to liberate, extricate, release, bring back, recover, remove, cause to disappear, redeem, restore, rescue, chew the cud; mīḷa again; mīḷi returning; mīṭci id., turning; bringing back, causing to return, releasing, redeeming; mīṭpu releasing, redemption, salvation; mīṭṭu (mīṭṭi-) to cause to return, save
Malayalam :mīḷuka
Malayalam meaning :to return; bring back
Malayalam derivates :mīḷcca returning, bringing back; vīḷuka to return, get back; avenge; vīṇṭu again; vīḷca return, ransom
Tamil meaning :to go beyond, exceed, transgress, violate, infringe, domineer, be in excess, remain over, be great, grow lofty as a tree, stout as a person, be haughty
Malayalam :mīr_uka
Malayalam meaning :to exceed, transgress
Kannada :mīr_u
Kannada meaning :to go beyond, go beyond the proper limit, transgress, evade, surpass, exceed, put into the shade; pass, elapse (as time); move out of reach, become excessive (as trouble, etc.); be elated, lofty, unrestrained or proud, act overbearingly
Kannada derivates :mīr_uha going beyond, transgressing, etc.
Tamil meaning :to fillip the strings of a lute, etc., play on the lute
Malayalam :miṭi
Malayalam meaning :tap, rap, fillip, throbbing
Malayalam derivates :miṭikka to tap, fillip, the pulse to beat, palpitate; miṭippu rapping, pulsation; mīṭṭuka to tap, fillip, strike the wires of an instrument, play the lute, etc.
Kannada :miḍi
Kannada meaning :to strike at or strike with a finger or the fingers, fillip, strike with the index, as the strings of a lute, etc., toss up with the thumb (as a rupee), move with a jerk of the fingers, pull or extend the string of a bow; n. moving with a pull of the fingers, propelling
Kannada derivates :miḍi-vil a bamboo slit at the one end of which a pebble is kept which is propelled by bending the end backwards and letting it spring back; mīṭu to strike the wires of a lute or guitar with the index finger, touch the lute or guitar
Tamil meaning :dullard, idiot; lazy person or animal
Tamil derivates :mottai ignorant woman
Kannada :moddu, maddu
Kannada meaning :stupidity, bluntness (as of knife)
Kannada derivates :madaḍu dullness, stupidity
Tulu :madaḍụ
Tulu meaning :slothful, indolent
Tulu derivates :madaḍu lazy; a lazy woman; madaḍe blockhead, sluggard
Notes :The vowel -a- is due to contamination with *maḍ- 'ignorance, folly, etc.' (or due to analogy: *modaḍ- > madaḍ-, *mod- > mad-).
Number in DED :5118
Proto-South Dravidian :*moggar- (?)
Meaning :mass, army
Kannada :moggara, mokkaḷa, mōhara
Kannada meaning :mass, multitude, host, army
Kannada derivates :mōharisu to become plentiful or abundant, be formed into a host; form a host, array as troops for battle
Notes :Dialectal.
Number in DED :5107
Proto-South Dravidian :*moj-
Meaning :requital, contribution
Tamil :moy
Tamil meaning :presents given on special occasions as at a wedding
Kannada :muy(i), muyvu
Kannada meaning :requital, act of returning like for like, return of good for good, an equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered, recompense, return of evil for evil, retaliation, punishment; present given to bride and bridegroom at their marriage by their relations, etc., with the prospect of a recompense being made on such an occasion in their own house
Tulu :muyi
Tulu meaning :gift of money at a wedding
Tulu derivates :muyya returning; muyya-pāḍuni to return, give back; (B-K) mujare allowance, subtraction, payment to be reduced due to adjustment of accounts
Notes :A complicated case. The forms can be traced back to *moj- (Tamil, half of the Kannada forms) or to *muḍ- (Kota, Tulu, the second half of Kannada forms). Malayal. muṛippu is < *muḍippu through contamination with muṛi joint. These two groups of forms are probably unrelated, although the possibility of relation cannot be included. It should be noted that there is a whole 'family' of words with the structure *muṛ-, *muḍ-, *muṭ-, etc., with the meaning 'joint, knot', etc., so it would be hard to make any final judgement.
Number in DED :5122
Proto-South Dravidian :*mok-
Meaning :a k. of tree
Kannada :mokka
Kannada meaning :Schroebera swietenoides
Number in DED :5105
Proto-South Dravidian :*mok-
Meaning :blunt
Tamil :mokkaṭṭai
Tamil meaning :that which is blunt
Tamil derivates :mokku bluntness; mokkai id. (as of an iron style)
