Tulu derivates :pulapāvuni to cause to float; pulampuni to set afloat; puṇalụ floating; puṇaluni, punaluni to float
Miscellaneous :(?) KOR (M) boḷa to float
Notes :While Tulu puṇaluni, etc., could be traced back to *puḷaluni with subsequent dissimilation, the same cannot be said of Tamil puṇai. Possibly two different roots ('raft', 'float', with subsequent contamination).
Tamil meaning :arable land, rice field; place, region, quarter
Tamil derivates :pulan_, pulavu arable land; ? pulampan_ chief or lord of a maritime tract [prob. originally 'chief of a village in the maritime tract']
Malayalam :pulam
Malayalam meaning :cornfield; place
Kannada :pola
Kannada meaning :a plough-field; place, direction
Tulu :pula
Tulu meaning :pasturage
Number in DED :4303
Proto-South Dravidian :*pUl-am
Meaning :sense, wisdom
Tamil :pulam
Tamil meaning :sense, sensation, knowledge, learning, treatise, the Vedas, clue
Tamil derivates :pula (-pp-, -nt-) to make known, instruct; pulattōr wise men; pulacci wise woman; pulappam appearing clearly; pulamai knowledge, wisdom; pulavan_ learned man
Malayalam :pulam
Malayalam meaning :perception by senses
Kannada :pola
Kannada meaning :object of sight, direction, point of the compass
Notes :Two variants of the root with different vocalism and unclear distribution; both, however, go back to PDR, as the same 'variation' is observed in Telugu and even in Gondi.
Tamil derivates :pularcci dawning; pularpu, pularvu, pulari dawn; pulāvu (pulāvi-) to dawn; pur_-pull-en_al expr. indicating break of day; pun_n_am-pulari early dawn
Malayalam :pularuka
Malayalam meaning :to dawn, light to appear
Malayalam derivates :pular dawn; pularcca daybreak; pularttuka to bring to the light
Kodagu :pola- (polav-, poland-)
Kodagu meaning :to dawn
Kodagu derivates :polat- (polati-) to spend night until dawn; polace, (Mercara dialect) polaca dawn; polāka morning
Tulu :pullè, pullya, pullyakela, pullayakolè
Tulu meaning :morning, daybreak; early in the morning
Number in DED :4305
Proto-South Dravidian :*puḷ-ug-
Meaning :to lie, to boast
Tamil :puḷuku (puḷuki-)
Tamil meaning :to tell bare-faced lies; n. obvious lie, barefaced falsehood
Tamil derivates :puḷukan_ liar; (Shanmugam) fem. puḷuki; puḷukuṇi, puẓukuṇi liar (comm. by N. Kumaraswami Raja)
Kannada meaning :to be joined or united, couple, grapple with (an enemy), fight; n. union, coupling, fight
Kannada derivates :poṇarke a fight; poṇarcu to join, be joined, united or mixed; join (tr.); poṇe bond, bail; bondsman, surety
Tulu :puṇè
Tulu meaning :security, bail
Tulu derivates :paṇakè pairing together with a rope, as cattle; (B-K) poṇake a pair, couple; a long rope entwined around the necks of a pair of oxen or buffaloes so as to make them move together
Tamil derivates :pun_a-kkāṭu shifting cultivation on the hills; pun_-cey land fit for dry cultivation only, dry crop; puñcai dry land
Malayalam :punam
Malayalam meaning :a jungle, chiefly highland overrun with underwood and capable of irregular cultivation
Malayalam derivates :puna-kkaṇṭam a hill-tract; puñca dry crop; puñca-kkaṇṭam field under irrigation, yielding even three harvests
Kannada :puṇaji
Kannada meaning :dust-like dry soil in which a kind of paddy is grown
Tulu :puñca-kaṇḍa
Tulu meaning :a very good rice-field
Notes :Tamil puñcai is obviously a reinterpretation of *pun-cey- 'upland-field'; thus, the Tulu form is borrowed from Tamil. Kannada puṇaji is unclear; either it does not belong here (the semantics AND the phonetics, with a retroflex -ṇ-, are a little different), or it is highly dialectal.
Number in DED :4337
Proto-South Dravidian :*Pun-
Meaning :privet
Tamil :pun_ku, puŋku, (Lush.) pun_kan_ (?; spelled pun_gan_)
Tamil meaning :sp. privet, Ligustrum perrottetii
Malayalam :puŋŋu
Malayalam meaning :(Lush.) sp. privet, Ligustrum perrottetii
