Праюжно-дравидийский: *aṇai
Значение: dam
Тамильский: aṇai
Тамильское значение: embankment, dam, ridge for retaining water in a field, bank of river or sea
Тамильские производные: aṇṭai field bund, ridge of a field
Малаялам: aṇa
Малаяльское значение: dam
Малаяльские производные: aṇṭa bund, ridge of field
Каннада: aṇe
Каннада значение: dam, dike
Кодагу: aṇḍa
Кодагу значение: bank or edge of river
Комментарии: The two "variants" - *aṇai and *anḍai - in reality cannot be joined together as easily as Burrow & Emeneau propose it in DEDR. In order to trace them back to the same source we would have to suppose that both go back to an early, and presumably, verbal root like *aṇ-, and even then the two lines of derivation would be rather vague. I would deem it more reasonable to reconstruct a PSDR nominal stem *aṇai "embankment". Tamil and Malayalam aṇṭa(i), with an obviously narrower meaning ('field bund', but not 'dam' in general) are a different, more local, formation, maybe contaminated with *anḍ- ' to approach, join' (?). As for Kodagu aṇḍa, in this case the retroflex cluster may actually go back to a simple retroflex nasal, i. e. reflect the earlier *aṇai; cf. a similar case in PSDR *pUṇai 'bamboo'. (It is possible that *-ṇ- > -ṇḍ- is a regular development in Kodagu nominal stems in the position before a strong suffix; unfortunately, the data are very scarce).
Номер по DED: 0122
