Pale: Paalai (desert and such barren lands) (Long vowel in Pale denotes it doesn’t have much in it, so does a barren land) Plus/Plural/Poly – Pala,Pal, PalvEru (many, more,various etc…) Paleo/palaio/Palai(Greek) : Palaya (Old) Palaku(Practice) all are related. The Sanskrit word Ratha (the inverse of this sound needs mention). Towel : Thuvai/துவை (wash) Germanic source þwēan(wash), dwahan, Hindi (Dhobi) also should be related.įade: Vaadu, can also be related to word “Waste”įaith: Padithal, Padinthu (acceptance of order)ĭrive : ThEr(chariot, Cart), Like in German its Treiben, other English words like Dray, Draw, Drag etc… has the relation. Wide: vidiya(sunrise, symbolically it means wide opening) Duid another word also looks related.Ĭorn/Grain : Kurunai (smaller grain) Kuru in Tamil is small. Ancient Indian religion, people are categorized into two, one is who settle with a family and the other is monks(thuravikal), they dont have family, they go faraway places seeking knowledge. Holy : KOil (Temple) literally its gods/higher(kO) place(il),ĭervish(beggar/poor) : Thuravi (monk), Thu-ra = Give away(ra) – the – keeping within(thu). Great : Kotra, Koatra (Interesting word, Kotra in Tamil means some thing that stand aside, not comparable to others) Good: Kodai (to give alms, to donate, give more) Light/le̯uk: Ilakkam (light/lamp/destination) We will see some of the interesting words, some of which will amaze you, Watch this page, The list is growing with new words added to the top, Give your comments if you have some questions or words to share. Now after collecting and finding out so many words, I think there should be a deep connection between the so called Dravidian words in Tamil and European language base but many linguists alienated Tamil language due to reasons unknown. Some of these words could have also loaned from Indo European to Tamil. Below are the list of words from English/Indo European that looks similar to Tamil words with similar meaning, these words with origins in Tamil and have ancient connections with some old Proto European language.