Proto-South Dravidian : *pIẓ-ai-
Meaning : to fail, do wrong
Tamil : piẓai (-pp-, -tt-)
Tamil meaning : to do wrong, fail, die, be missing, lost; n. fault, crime, defect, mistake
Tamil derivates : piẓaippu mistake, failure; piẓakku wrong, injustice; piẓampu wickedness
Malayalam : piẓa
Malayalam meaning : fault, oversight, a fine
Malayalam derivates : piẓekka to err, fail, transgress; piẓeppu, piẓappu casualty; piẓeppikka to cause to err; piẓukuka to slip off, fall out of caste; piẓukkuka to excommunicate
Tulu : puḷuku, (B-K) puḷku
Tulu meaning : slipping out, anything soft or greasy
Tulu derivates : (?) pīŋkuḍuni, pīŋkuni, pīŋguḷuni to escape, slip out; pīŋkāḍruni, pīŋkāvuni to cause to slip out, get on the sly
Notes : Tulu pīŋk- hardly belongs here; both the semantics and the phonetics are hard to match, and the forms should go back to something like *piṛ-ŋk-, unattested in any other languages.
Number in DED : 4187
