Proto-South Dravidian : *ir_-
Meaning : tight
Tamil : ir_uku (ir_uki-)
Tamil meaning : to become tight (as a knot), harden (as land dried by the sun, molten, metals when they are cooled), become dry (as mortar or clay), thicken (as phlegm), congeal, coagulate, solidify, become firm, be fixed or rooted in
Tamil derivates : ir_ukku (ir_ukki-) to tighten, tie close or hard, make compact, repress, restrain, drive in (as a nail); n. pressure, coercion, reproof, hard knot; ir_ukkam tightness, compactness, rigidness, niggardliness; ir_ukkan_ miser; ir_ukal contraction; ir_umpu thicket, shrub, bush; ikku danger, trouble; ikkaṭṭu trouble, difficulty, straitened circumstances
Malayalam : ir_ukuka
Malayalam meaning : to become tight, close
Malayalam derivates : ir_ukkuka to tie tight, catch as a crab, (river) to have a narrow bed; ir_ukkam, ir_ukku tightness, covetousness; ikku trouble; ikkaṭṭu straits, difficulty; īr_r_a stinginess, a miser; īr_r_an miser; īr_r_ikka to keep tenaciously, lay up
Kannada : ir_aku, ir_iku, ir_uku, irku, ir_aŋku, ir_iŋku, ir_uŋku, ir_i
Kannada meaning : to be closely confined, be compressed or squeezed; confine, compress, squeeze, press, pinch
Kannada derivates : ir_aku, ir_iku, irku, ikku state of being close, confined, squeezed, or straitened; irkaṭṭu, ikkaṭṭu state of having little room from side to side, narrowness as that of a door, state of being strait or difficult to pass; ir_uku state of being close, etc., a narrow place, a thicket; ir_a, ir_i, ir_u state of being confined, tight, or close; ir_akisu, ir_ikisu, ir_ukisu, ir_uŋkisu, irkisu to press, squeeze; ir_ube, ir_uvu, ir_uve a throng, crowd, large number; ir_umbu a narrow place; hardness, harshness
Tulu : iriyuni
Tulu meaning : to rub or squeeze between the hands, knead
Tulu derivates : ikkaṭṭụ narrowness, difficulty, straitness, poverty; irbuliyuni to curdle as milk
Irula : irugu
Irula meaning : become tight
Notes : Ir. 114.
Number in DED : 0524
