Tamil meaning :to dig, hollow, excavate, scoop out, bore, draw or fetch water from a well, draw out details of, unload (as a ship)
Tamil derivates :tōṇṭi pot of earth or metal used for drawing water; tōṭṭam garden, orchard, plantation; tōṭṭakkāran_ gardener, husbandman, owner of plantation; toṭu (toṭuv-, toṭṭ-) to dig, scoop out, excavate, pierce through; n. field, garden; tuṭavai garden, cultivated field
Malayalam :tōṇṭuka
Malayalam meaning :to burrow, scoop out, remove (ear-wax), clean out (a well), dig
Malayalam derivates :tōṇṭi small earthen vessel for drawing water; tōṭṭam garden; tōṭṭakkāran gardener; toṭi garden
Kannada :tōḍu
Kannada meaning :to take water out of a large vessel with a small one, bail out water, put rice from one vessel into another one or another place, wind thread from one spool upon another one, remove as ear-wax, etc., dig, excavate a hole, burrow, bury (as an arrow in a victim), penetrate (as the breast)
Tulu derivates :tōḍaŋgelụ scooped, burrowed; tuḍa bored, scooped out; tōṭa garden, orchard, plantation; tōṭige a class of brahmans working in plantations
Tamil meaning :to be visible, come to mind, appear, seem, spring up, come into existence, be born, exist
Tamil derivates :tōr_r_u (tōr_r_i-) id.; cause to appear, show, produce, create; n. appearance; tōn_r_al appearance, splendour, superiority, great person, chief; tōr_r_am appearance, vision, sight, conspicuousness, prominence, splendour, brightness, origin, birth, creation, fame; tōr_r_al appearance; tōr_r_aravu appearance, coming into existence, conspicuousness, incarnation; tōr_um each, every, whenever (i. e. as much as appears)
Malayalam :tōnnuka
Malayalam meaning :to spring up, occur, appear to the sight, come into the mind, please
Malayalam derivates :tōnnal imagination, suggestion, instinct; tōnnikka to produce an appearance, reveal, inspire; tōr_r_uka to produce, restore to life; tōr_r_am appearance, rise (of the sun), show, spectacle, festivity; tōr_um all, each
Kannada :tōr_ (tōr_d-), tōr_u (tōr_i-)
Kannada meaning :to appear, be visible, seem, be conspicuous, come into existence, occur, show, exhibit, evince
Kannada derivates :tōr_isu to make appear, show, evince, cause oneself to appear, appear, occur; tōr_ike appearance, sight, seeming, conjecture, exhibiting, exhibition; tōr_isuvike showing, etc.; tōr_u appearing, showing; tōr_uvike, tōrke, tōrpu, tōrpe appearing; tōcu to appear, seem, occur to the mind; dōvil, dōhil making publicly known, disclosure
Kodagu :*tōnd-
Kodagu meaning :(Kar.) (only in tōndɨci it came in a flash, as a sudden idea)
Tulu :tōjuni, sōjuni
Tulu meaning :to appear, seem, be seen, think
Tulu derivates :tōjāvuni to show, point out; tōrikè, tōrigè, sōrikè appearance, show, exhibition
Tamil meaning :to be defeated, discomfitted, vanquished (as in battle, game, dispute, etc.), fail in comparison, yield, flinch, give way voluntarily, lose; n. defeat, discomfiture, misfortune, ill-luck, loss
Tulu meaning :to lose at a game, be defeated, overcome
Tulu derivates :sōpāvuni, sōlāvuni to make one lose at a game, defeat, overcome; sōpu, sōlpu defeat, discomfiture; defeated, overcome; sōla defeat, failure, disappointment
Notes :Tamil tōr- is secondary (by analogy with the past stem tōr_p-, probably).
Number in DED :3558
Proto-South Dravidian :*tu-
Meaning :to eat; to enjoy food
Tamil :tu (-pp-, -tt-)
Tamil meaning :(generally used in negative forms) to eat; n. food, experience
Tamil derivates :tuppu enjoyment, object of enjoyment, food, ghee; tuy (-pp-, -tt-) to enjoy by means of the senses, experience, suffer as the fruit of actions, eat, feed; n. food; tuyppu enjoyment; tucci eating, experience, fruition, good or evil as a result of karma; tuvvu (tuvvi-) to eat, enjoy; n. food, gratification of the senses, enjoyment, experience; tuppam ghee (< Ka.); (PN) tūvu = tuvvu
Kannada :tuyyal
Kannada meaning :a dish of rice, milk and sugar
Kannada derivates :tuppa ghee
Number in DED :3282
Proto-South Dravidian :*Tuḍ-
Meaning :a liquid measure
Tamil :tuṭam, tuṭavu
Tamil meaning :a liquid measure
Malayalam :tuṭam
Malayalam meaning :a liquid measure, 1/16 of an Iḍangaṛi
Malayalam derivates :tuṭaku a small earthen vessel holding two nāẓi, chiefly for toddy
Tamil meaning :to be crowded thick, close, intense, abound, be copious
Tamil derivates :(-pp-, -tt-) to press together; n. closeness, crowded state; ? tatai (-v-, -nt-) to be thickset, crowded, densely packed; (-pp-, -tt-) to be full, abundant; ? tatumpu (tatumpi-) to become full
