Notes :Tamil mōrai can actually be traced back to mukarai (< *mug- 'face') through contraction. The problem is that the Kannada and Tulu forms cannot, so the root has to be considered independent, especially seeing that it also has parallels in Telugu and Gondwan languages.
Notes :A strange root; mōvāy could be seen as *mō- + *vāj 'mouth', but what is mō-?
Number in DED :5142
Proto-South Dravidian :*mōv-i
Meaning :black plum
Tamil :mōvi
Tamil meaning :(DCV) black plum
Number in DED :5143
Proto-South Dravidian :*mōẓ-ai
Meaning :hornless cattle; stupidity
Tamil :mōẓai
Tamil meaning :(1) hornless or dehorned cattle, anything defective, stump, block; (2) stupidity
Malayalam :mōẓa
Malayalam meaning :(1) cattle without horns or with horns turned; (2) stupidity
Notes :Has to be distinguished from *mōṭ-, *moṇṭ-, although the meaning 'stupidity' is certainly due to contamination with these two.
Number in DED :5114
Proto-South Dravidian :*mōẓ-ai/*mUẓ-ai-
Meaning :cleft, crevice; to creep into
Tamil :muẓai (-v-, -nt-)
Tamil meaning :to enter
Tamil derivates :(-pp-, -tt-) to pierce, bore; n. large mountain cave, cavern, den; muẓaiñcu cave, hole; mūẓai a hollow place; mōẓai cleft, crevice, subterranean water-course, pool
Malayalam :muḷayuka
Malayalam meaning :to creep in, retire, cattle to enter the stable
Malayalam derivates :muḷekka to gather, shut up as cattle for the night
Kannada :mōḷe
Kannada meaning :a small hole (made by crabs, etc.) in the banks of ricefields or tanks, a fissure
Notes :Irregular -ḷ- in Malayalam. Tamil mūṛai should be considered secondary, due to analogy with the regular muṛai.
Tamil meaning :to be torn, be crumpled as a garment, be tired, feel discouraged
Tamil derivates :(-pp-, -tt-) to faint, become tired, be distressed, grow thin, perish; mucippu thinness, emaciation, languor, debility, fatigue, weariness, destruction; mucivu crumpling
Malayalam :muṣikka
Malayalam meaning :to dirty; to trouble, vex
Malayalam derivates :muṣiyuka to grow faint, weary, be worn out, dirty; to grow angry, be in a pet; muṣiccal wearisomeness; displeasure, disgust, pettishness; muṣippikka to tire; to make displeased
Kannada :muccur_u
Kannada meaning :to become torpid or stupified, lose consciousness, faint away, swoon, be troubled in mind
Kannada derivates :(Hav.) muju black monkey; (Gowda, Dr. Ling., p. 98) mucca black-faced monkey
Kodagu :muccë
Kodagu meaning :langur
Tulu :mujji, mujju
Tulu meaning :a black monkey
Notes :Depending on the suffix, the lexeme is present in two different forms: 1) *múc-a (Gowda mucca, Kod. muccë, possibly Malayalam mocca, although the -o- still has to be accounted for); 2) *muǯ-ú (Tam. mucu, Kan. musu, muju). Tulu mujji somewhat stands out in this context, as it can only be traced back to *múǯǯ-i. Secondary derivation from a lost **muju < *muǯ-ú? Unclear.
Number in DED :4910
Proto-South Dravidian :*muc-muc-
Meaning :a k. of creeper
Tamil :mucumucukkai
Tamil meaning :bristly bryony creeper, Mukia scabrella
Malayalam :muśumuśukka
Malayalam meaning :Bryonia scabra
Number in DED :4913
Proto-South Dravidian :*mŭcunḍ-
Meaning :low or bad people
Tamil :mucuṇṭar
Tamil meaning :low, mean people
Malayalam :muśaṭan
Malayalam meaning :(DCV) coward
Kannada :musuṇḍi, mūsaṇḍi
Kannada meaning :a crooked, perverse, rude person, a coward
Tamil meaning :to contract, become lame or maimed, bend, be spoiled; abide, remain, stay, lie down; n. rheumatism; lane, turning in a street
Tamil derivates :muṭaŋkar physical exhaustion as in confinement; muṭaŋkal being bent as a bow; roll of palm-leaf used in letter-writing; muṭaŋki bed-ridden person; elbow or jutting part of a piece of land; muṭakku (muṭakki-) to bend as knee, arm, etc., wind round, wrap (as one's person), cause to bend or contract, disable (as one's limbs), roof in (as a hut), cover, lie down; n. curve, bend, tongu, corner of a winding sheet, a kind of ring; muṭakkam contraction, lameness, being crippled by paralysis, bend, curve; muṭantai lameness, anything bent, amenorrhoea; muṭam crippled condition of leg or arm, anything bent, bend; muṭalai ball, globe, twist in the fibre as of firewood; muṭavan_ lame, lame man; (Shanmugam) muṭatti lame woman; muṭavu (muṭavi-) to limp; muṭukkar short street, pathway difficult to pass, lane; mountain cavern, place where water presses against a tank and erodes, interstice, interspace; muṭukku corner, narrow winding street; muṇaŋku (muṇaŋki-) to be contracted, withdrawn, bent, be subject to; n. withdrawing, contracting, bending, shaking off drowsiness or laziness by stretching one's limbs, idleness
Malayalam :muṭam, muṭakkam
Malayalam meaning :contraction of members as by landwind, lameness
Malayalam derivates :muṭakālam lame-footed (said of birds, etc.); muṭakka to limp, halt; muṭantan, muṭavan lame; fem. muṭanti, muṭavi; muṭaŋŋuka to become lame; muṭakku an uneven palm-leaf; muṭukku corner, narrow passage
Kannada :muḍuku, muḍugu, muḍubu
Kannada meaning :to bend, shrink, become crooked, be contracted, be distorted; bend (tr.), crook, distort, etc.; n. bending, shrinking, becoming or being crooked, being distorted, curve, corner, angle
Tamil meaning :beginning, first as in rank, place, etc.; cause, God as the first cause, one who is first or oldest, best, that which is superior; principal, fund, capital, money yielding interest; place
Tamil derivates :mutalvar persons beginning with; celestials; mutalvan_ one who is first, chief, head, god, king, father; mutalvi lady of first rank; mutali head, chief, religious leader; mutalu (mutali-) to commence, begin, come first, have a beginning, have as the origin, begin with; mutan_mai priority, superiority, supremacy; mutir (-v-, -nt-) to precede, excel, surpass; mutirvu excess, plenty
Malayalam :mutal
Malayalam meaning :beginning; blossom or catkin of Artocarpus, considered as the first fruit (mīttu) and superstitiously plucked off; principal or capital, stock in trade, property, money
Malayalam derivates :mutanma greatness; mutali headman; mutalvan a chief; mutiruka to go forward, be beforehand, early; mutirttuka to forestall
Kannada :modal, madalu
Kannada meaning :state of being first, preceding, in front, prior; state of being chief, the chief thing; beginning, extermity or tip; original, principal or capital, stock in trade; at the beginning, first, etc., for the first time
Kannada derivates :motta-modalu, moda-modalu the very beginning, at the very first; modaliga a chief, headman
