A Malayalam and English DictionaryC. Stolz, 1872 - 1116 Seiten |
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Seite iii - The materials for this work have been collected during mo,re than twenty-five years' study of the language. The words have been taken from all available sources: from the lips of speakers of all ranks, castes and occupations, from the letters and records of many different districts, and from the writers in prose and poetry of every...
Seite iii - Tamil words'' as those languages of old "differed rather as dialects of the same member of the Dravidian family than as separate...
Seite iii - This history commences with Ramacaritam in which we probably have the oldest Malayalam poem still in existence composed as it was before the introduction of the Sanskrit alphabet and deserving of the particular attention of the scholar as it exhibits the earliest phase of the language perhaps centuries before the arrival of the Portugese.
Seite iv - ... Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese Dictionaries," called by Gundert the "Verapoly Dictionaries" are (to cite the words of Gundert who has freely utilised the materials of these dictionaries for his own work) "very valuable works compiled by the Portuguese and Italian missionaries of Verapoly, which though completed in 1746 rest upon materials accumulated in the 17th, perhaps even the 16th century, and rank as the oldest monuments extant of European scholarship in India.
Seite iii - It has been found difficult to draw the line of demarcation between Malayalam and Tamil words. These two languages of old differed rather as dialects of the same member of the Dravidian family than as separate languages.
Seite v - The arrangement chosen has been, to point out as far as possible the root and origin of each word, to give first its primitive sense and to add the figurative and free senses in a rational order; lastly to illustrate them by examples taken from reliable authorities.
Seite iii - Ramacaritam, in which we probably have the oldest Malayalam poem still in existence, composed as it was before the introduction of the Sanskrit alphabet and deserving of the particular attention of the scholar, as it exhibits the earliest phase of the language, perhaps centuries before the arrival...
Seite 722 - August), during which high caste women may lose caste if a slave happen to throw a stone at them after sunset.
Seite 456 - Ma. tali a creeper, the leaves of which are used in cleansing the head before bathing, or in washing off the oil rubbed on the body; (Lush.) tirutäH Ipomaea sepiaria.
Seite iv - ... attention only to those terms which are generally accepted as fairly "domiciled...