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**9mm_fan** · 05-13-2006, 09:31 AM

Firstly, just because there is an alternative for a word in Tamil it does not mean that word is not Tamil, for instance for water there are more than 50 words in sanskrit, does it mean that, but for one the rest all are non sanskrit ?

Secondly, if a word exist in Tamil and sanskrit, why it is assumed that Tamil got it from sanskrit ? it is more probably the other way around. Sanskrit is an artificial language perfected for liturgical purposes and for recording (supposedly) complex thought, the language was created from the existing languages, that includes Tamil and prakrits. If we get to the root of the word in tamil/prakrit better than that language is the original source of the word. For instance deepam/dheep the root is thee ie., fire in tamil, sanskrit does not have such roots for this word.

05-13-2006, 09:31 AM	#22
9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 53 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	Firstly, just because there is an alternative for a word in Tamil it does not mean that word is not Tamil, for instance for water there are more than 50 words in sanskrit, does it mean that, but for one the rest all are non sanskrit ? Secondly, if a word exist in Tamil and sanskrit, why it is assumed that Tamil got it from sanskrit ? it is more probably the other way around. Sanskrit is an artificial language perfected for liturgical purposes and for recording (supposedly) complex thought, the language was created from the existing languages, that includes Tamil and prakrits. If we get to the root of the word in tamil/prakrit better than that language is the original source of the word. For instance deepam/dheep the root is thee ie., fire in tamil, sanskrit does not have such roots for this word.
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