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Comparative etymological dictionary
March 28 , 2025
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- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has released a general introduction book and the first volume of comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and the Indo-European languages.
- The initiative is a part of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation’s collaboration with the Oxford University Press.
- It aims to bring out a 12-volume comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages.
- The State government had sanctioned ₹8 crore for the project in which 20 experts, headed by Professor G. Arasenthiran, have been working since 2022.
- The first volume is a compilation based on a hypothesis of the etymology of 19 words in the Western Indo-European languages such as Latin, Greek, German, French, English and the Eastern Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhalese, which are originated from Tamil.
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