Proto-South Dravidian : *tūŋ-
Meaning : to hang
Tamil : tūŋku (tūŋki-)
Tamil meaning : to hang, be suspended, swing, sway from side to side as an elephant, dance, sleep, slumber, die, spin as a top, droop as a plant, be sluggish, slow; delay, procrastinate, walk or trudge slowly, rest profoundly
Tamil derivates : tūŋkal pendant, anything suspended, drowsiness, light sleep, dullness, depression, balance, scales, dancing, a tune of slow measure; tūkku (tūkki-) to lift up, raise, hoist, weigh, balance, consider, compare, hang, suspend, shake, agitate; n. pendant, anything suspended, balance, weight, plumb-line, height, perpendicularity, steepness, comparison, similitude, deliberation, pondering, dancing; tūkkam sleep, drowsiness, fatigue, weariness, laziness, drooping, delay, pendants in jewels, a kind of garland, ornamental hanging, a kind of ear-ornament, weighing, height, rise in price; tūkkutūkki satchel-bearer
Malayalam : tūŋŋuka
Malayalam meaning : to hang, be suspended, dangle, be weighed, be drowsy, sleep
Malayalam derivates : tūŋŋal hanging, inclination, reliance, drowsiness; tūkkuka to suspend, hang up, weigh, take up, nod, be drowsy; tūkkam hanging, esp. the ceremony of swinging suspended by hooks in honour of Kāḷi, weighing, weight, precipice, perpendicular, sleepiness, a cradle of cloth suspended by the four corners; tūkkal drooping, drowsiness, grief; tūkkikka to have hanged, get weighed; tūkku that which hangs or serves to suspend something, what can be lifted at once, dependency, direction
Kannada : tūgu, tūŋku
Kannada meaning : to weigh, swing or rock as a cradle, wag or move the head from side to side, hold or lift up and wave, swing, nod as in sleep or be drowsy, hang, be suspended, dangle, wave; n. weighing, swinging about, oscillation, waving, wagging
Kannada derivates : tūgisu to cause to weigh, swing or rock as a cradle; tūka weighing, weight, the quantity determined by weighing, worth, dignity; tūkike, tūgike act of weighing; tūku weight, moving up and down or backwards and forwards, nodding; jūgalisu to nod, doze, move or proceed slowly as vehicles or work; jūg-āḍu to waggle, waddle
Kodagu : tūŋg- (tūŋgi-)
Kodagu meaning : to hang (intr.)
Kodagu derivates : tūk- (tūki-) to hang (tr.), weigh; jūŋg- (jūŋgi-) to sway (snake, tree, person, baby in cradle); jūk- (jūki-) to sway (tr.)
Tulu : tūŋkuni, tūŋguni
Tulu meaning : to swing, toss, reel, doze, be drowsy, deliberate
Tulu derivates : tūŋkaṇa, tūŋki swinging, dependence; tūŋkaliyuni, tūkal(i)yuni to doze, be drowsy; tūŋku swinging, drowsiness, reeling, deliberation; tūŋgu the beard of barley, etc.; tūŋgalụ awny, full of beard as corn; tūkuni, tūguni to weigh, hang, suspend, swing, rock (as a cradle); tūka weight, weighing; tūkāvuni to cause to weigh, hang up; tūku hanging; tūkula a hanging lamp; tūgaḍi drowsiness, sleepiness; tūgaḍipuni to be drowsy, sleepy; sūŋkaṇa, sūŋkuni, sūŋgu, sūka = t-, etc.
Number in DED : 3376
