Proto-South Dravidian : *ńeg-
Meaning : loose, relaxed; to slip
Tamil : ñekiẓ (-v-, -nt-)
Tamil meaning : to become loose, slip off as bangles, languish, faint, be tender-hearted, blossom, melt as wax, become thin, emaciated
Tamil derivates : ñekiẓam, ñekiẓi a tinkling anklet; nekiẓ (-v-, -nt-) to be injured, ruined, become loose, slip off as a garment, grow lean and weak, expand, blossom, become soft and mashy as over-boiled rice, lack cohesion as earth wet by rain, melt, relent as the heart in pity, exude, flow out (as tears from the eyes, milk from the breast), be reduced to powder, give way, yield as to the axe in cutting, forsake; (-pp-, -tt-) to make loose, relax, cause to expand or open as a blossom, separate, detach, crush, bruise, discharge as an arrow; nekiẓcci loosening, slackening; tenderness of feeling; neku (nekuv-, nekk-) to become soft, relaxed, loosened, soaked and ready to break, melt, relent (as the heart), slip off, be ruined, scattered, broken, be ground well, macerated; nekkal that which is relaxed, overripe fruit, anything rotten or decayed; nekku being soaked as the ground after rain, relaxing, dissolving, being broken in pieces; (?) nukai (-v-, -nt-) to become lax, loose (as a garment), become soft (as the earth from rain); (-pp-, -tt-) to relax, loosen, slacken, mitigate, soften
Tulu : (?) nuguruni
Tulu meaning : to loosen, slacken, make loose
Tulu derivates : nugupuni to loosen
Notes : Tamil nukai, Tulu nuguruni probably do not belong here.
Number in DED : 2923
