Reconstruction:Proto-South Dravidian/ñān

This Proto-South Dravidian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-South Dravidian

Etymology

Back formed from the 1PL incl. pronoun *ñām making a parallel to *yĀn.

Pronoun

*ñān

1. I (1SG personal pronoun)

Descendants

• Southern:
  • Tamil-Kannada:
    • Old Kannada: ನಾನ್ (nān), ನಾನು (nānu)
      • Badaga: ನಾ (nā), ನಾನು (nānu)
      • Jennu Kurumba: ನಾನು (nānu)
      • Kannada: ನಾನು (nānu)
      • Sholaga: ನಾನು (nānu)
    • Tamil-Kodagu:
      • Irula-Muduga:
        • Irula: நா (nā), [script needed] (nānu)
        • Muduga: നാനു (nānu)
          • Attapady Kurumba: നാ, നാനു
      • Kodava: ನಾನ್ (nānŭ), ನಾ (nā)
      • Tamil-Malayalam:
        • Malayalamoid:
          • Aranadan: ഞാ
          • Kurichiya: നാ (nā), നാൻ (nāṉ)
          • Malavedan: ഞാനു (ñānu)
          • Malayalam: ഞാൻ (ñāṉ), നാൻ (nāṉ) — early inscriptional
          • Mullu Kurumba: നാനു
          • Ravula: നാനു (nānu)
        • Tamiloid:
          • Pattapu: నాను
          • Tamil: நான் (nāṉ)
• South-Central:
  • Gondi: నన్నా (nannā), ననా (nanā), నన (nana)
  • Konda-Dora: నాను (nānu), నాన్ (nān)
  • Kuvi: ନା୕ନୁ (nānu)
  • Telugu: నేను (nēnu)

References

• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “nāṉ”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Subrahmanyam, P.S. (2011) A Supplement to Dravidian etymological dictionary, Chennai : Central Institute of Classical Tamil, page 157.
• S. Nair, Ravi Shankar (2013) Tribal Languages of Kerala‎^[1], Language in India

• Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1981) “ñān”, in Problems of Identification and Classification of Some Nilagiri Tribes: Iŗulas-Ūrāļis, Kāţţu Nāyakas/Jēnu Kuŗumbas, Šōlegas‎^[2], Anthropos