Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Interesting Tamil Etymology - Human Body.

Aasi Patri Ari -- Aasupatri --  Hospital


Kaal in Tamil means one forth or leg 
Arai in Tamil means half  or waist 
Mudi in Tamil stands for finish or hair. 

Kaal (leg)is one forth of our body (i.e.from below the knee to foot), 
Arai  (waist) is one half of out body (i.e. from below the waist to foot),
considering two different meanings for Kaal and Arai as explained above, the finishing point of human body could be called Muzhu (for full) or Mudi (finishing point). The chosen word is perhaps Mudi which is the finishing point of human body if you consider from bottom-up view.

Further 
Mutti (for knee) is called so, as it is the first part of the body when you crash (sit) on floor.  Muttu in Tamil is to hit, and Mutti is to get hit.

Thodai (for thigh )is called so 'cos it is the first extension from waist to leg.  In other words waist extends further below the body into leg via thodai.  Thodu in Tamil means to 'touch' and Thodar means continuation, Thus Thodai is the right word coined for thigh in Tamil.

Vairu (for stomach) is called so 'cos what we eat will go to stomach and stay there for some time, so it is rightlfully called Va + Iru = Vairu.  Va is to come and Iru is to stay.  Va + Iru is to come and stay.  Food that we eat comes and stays here.  How beautifully they have named it.

Please await my submission on the following words.

Kazhuthu (Neck)
Viral (Fingers)
Kai (Hand)
Netti (Forehead)
Kann (Eye)
Kadhu (Ear)
Mooku  (Nose)
Vai (Mouth)
Nakku (Tongue)
Pal (Tooth)
Egaru (Gums)
Idayam (Heart)
Nurai Eeeral (Lungs)
Kal Eeral (Liver)
Unnakku (Tonsil)
Swasa Kozhai (wind pipe)
Siru Kodal (Small Intestine)
Peru Kodal (Large Intenstine)
Viarvai ( Sweat)
Kuridhi / Ratham (Blood)
Sezeh (Pus)


Tamil is the language of infection .  In grammar, inflection is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns as declension.  We have very few languages in the world where majority of the words are have inflection and Tamil is one of such rare languages.