Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English - 2

[Husky]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Mar 23 2008, 10:13 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Mar 23 2008, 10:13 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->kAsu - tamil kAsu which some claim might have lent itself to cassa, cash, case etc in european languages - meaning money or money-box.[right][snapback]79953[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->On an earlier occasion, had encountered cash and its origins in my dictionary. So here we go, from "The Concise Oxford Dictionary" (1983 reprint, Oxford University Press):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>cash</b> <i>n.</i> (<i>pl.</i> same). (Hist.) E. Ind. or Chinese small coin. [ult. f. Port. <i>ca(i)xa</i> f. Tamil <i>kasu</i> f. Skr. <i>karsha</i>]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->DMK will go into a fit again. Another word to strike from their Tamizh vocabulary and blame on "oryan impositions" (never mind that kAsu <i>is</i> Tamizh, since all they care about is that it had ever had an origin in Samskritam). Obviously Bishop Caldwell hadn't done enough work in purging Tamizh words from Tamizh... the new christos (the DMK) will have to continue the grand christian task of destroying Tamizh, all in the interests of "protecting Tamizh". (From itself apparently... <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Yeah, I don't get the contradictory christologic either.)