06-01-2007, 08:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2007, 08:36 PM by Hauma Hamiddha.)
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Jun 1 2007, 07:44 AM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Jun 1 2007, 07:44 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pani is from Sanskrit, in Telugu it becomes Paniyam & changes meaning to mean any drink not just water, jalam (more literary) and neeru (or neellu) the colloquial are the words for water in Telugu.
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The tamil word taNNIr (taNNi is a just a slang of the same) is from the same root:
taN- (cold/clean?) nIr- water as the above in telugu and kaNNaDa.
this nIr is unrelated in any way to pAnIyaM which is from the root "to drink" as AK mentioned above.
The nIr is believed to be a loan word in Skt from proto-draviDian by western Indologists. However, it should be noted that it comes very early in saMskR^ita. In the shatapatha brAhmaNa the river in Bihar- sadAnIra is mentioned = always with water, which is clearly explained in the brAhmaNa passage. there are also saMskR^ita words like nIraja- lotus; analog of abja.
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The tamil word taNNIr (taNNi is a just a slang of the same) is from the same root:
taN- (cold/clean?) nIr- water as the above in telugu and kaNNaDa.
this nIr is unrelated in any way to pAnIyaM which is from the root "to drink" as AK mentioned above.
The nIr is believed to be a loan word in Skt from proto-draviDian by western Indologists. However, it should be noted that it comes very early in saMskR^ita. In the shatapatha brAhmaNa the river in Bihar- sadAnIra is mentioned = always with water, which is clearly explained in the brAhmaNa passage. there are also saMskR^ita words like nIraja- lotus; analog of abja.