Tamil meaning :dry rubbish, dried vegetable matter as grass, leaves, etc., hay, straw
Tamil derivates :cettal dry, over-ripe coconut on the tree, shrivelled palmyra or other fruit, dried chillies, plantain trees, vegetables or grass; cetuku rubbish, chaff, dried leaves
Malayalam :cetta, cer_r_a
Malayalam meaning :little sticks or leaves for kindling a fire or covering a hut, what is made of it, screen or wicket of wicker work
Kannada :satte, sade, sedage
Kannada meaning :rubbish, dirt, stuff, trash
Tulu :sedè
Tulu meaning :sweeping, rubbish
Miscellaneous :KOR (M) sada rubbish
Notes :A shift of accent in North-South-Dravidian?
Tamil meaning :to become entangled, complicated, be caught, ensnared, be obtained; n. tangle, twist, intricacy, snare, entanglement
Tamil derivates :cikk-en_a firmly, tenaciously, tightly, closely; ciŋku (ciŋki-) to be caught; ikal intricacy, obscurity, involvedness; ? ciṭukku a tangle
Kannada meaning :to become entangled, be caught, fall into the hands of, be got
Kannada derivates :sikku, sirku, silku state of being entangled, entanglement, intricacy, impediment, obstacle, trouble
Kodagu :cikk- (cikki-)
Kodagu meaning :to become entangled
Tulu :sikkuni, tikkuni
Tulu meaning :to be ensnared, caught, seized, obtained
Tulu derivates :sikkāvuni, tikkāvuni to ensnare, entangle, button; sikkụ, tikkụ entanglement, intricacy, perplexity, distress; sikkaṭṭụ, tikkaṭṭụ labyrinth, intricacy; tikkaṭuni to be matted, be entangled, intricate; silkuni to be entangled, be perplexed; salkuni to be entangled; salkāvuni to entangle; (B-K) tirkụ, sirkụ entanglement, difficulty
Tamil meaning :to form, rise, come into being, bud, branch out on all sides, rise in pimples as prickly heat, grow stout, be impregnated; n. embryo, foetus, pregnancy, spawn, eggs, flower bud, branch of a tree, member, component part
Tamil derivates :cin_aippu prickly heat, becoming pregnant, fatness
Malayalam :cana
Malayalam meaning :pregnancy
Malayalam derivates :canekka animals to conceive, branch out; canaccam smaller branch of a tree or antler; cina branching out as an ear of corn; cinekka to branch out, rice to sprout
Kannada :jane
Kannada meaning :yolk of an egg
Kannada derivates :tane, tene embryo of beasts, pregnancy
Tulu :tanè, sanè
Tulu meaning :conceiving, breeding as cattle, sheep, etc.
Tulu derivates :taneyuni cattle or animals to be big with young
Number in DED :2592
Proto-South Dravidian :*Cip-
Meaning :a k. of grass
Kannada :cippa-kasuvu
Kannada meaning :the fragrant grass Andropogon schoenanthus
Kannada meaning :either end of a piece of cotton or silk cloth used as a garment, the loose end of a garment, that end which is put over the shoulder or head, the ornamental coloured cross stripes near each of the ends; cover, protection, refuge
Tulu :seraŋgụ
Tulu meaning :the end or edge of a female's garment
Malayalam derivates :cīttu a shred, strip; īruka to saw, split (or with DEDR 542)
Kannada :sigi
Kannada meaning :to split (as wood), tear or rend with the teeth as sugar-cane
Kannada derivates :sigasu, sigisu to have split; siguḷu to be split, cleft; split (tr.); sigur_, sigur_u, sibar_u, sivar_u, sivur_u a splinter, a shiver (cf. DEDR 2600); sību bamboo-slit
Tulu :tigipuni, tigupuni, (B-K) sigipu
Tulu meaning :to split, slit, cut, saw, tear
Tulu derivates :tiguruni, tigruni, tiguluni, siguruni to split; tigụtè, tigtè, tigitè a split, splinter, slip, piece; (B-K) tiburu a crack, split
Tamil meaning :to hiss as a serpent, snort as a horse, sniff, be infuriated, swell with rage, roar and blaze forth as a flame, get angry with; n. anger
Tamil derivates :cīr_r_am anger, fury; cīr_u-cīr_-en_al onom. expr. signifying violent anger; cīntu (cīnti-) to be angry with, hiss (as a serpent)
Malayalam :cīr_uka
Malayalam meaning :to hiss, puff as a snake, foam, rage
Malayalam derivates :cīr_ikka to make to hiss, enrage; cīr_r_am rage; cīr_r_u a hiss, puffing; cīr_r_uka to hiss, rage
Kannada :sīr_u
Kannada meaning :to grow enraged, become angry, be very contentious or quarrelsome; n. raging, fierceness
Kannada derivates :sīvarisu, sīvar_isu to hiss, puff, pass the proper temper, show disgust or disdain; sēr_u to rail at, treat with derision; ? siṭṭu anger, rage
Kodagu :cīr- (cīri-)
Kodagu meaning :to grumble, answer back grumblingly
