Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English

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Thootham is from <i>teertham</i> which is the word used by the generation of grandparents in my family for designating <i>drinking</i> water (of course, they say teertham not thootam). Teertham is what water is called after Puja offerings, and this is what it is called in temples as well. People always know they can drink this.

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Man, why did I not make that connection. I was pondering from where 'thootham' must have come. That's the word I grew up with, and continued using it for several years in my twenties. The more and more I stopped using the brahmin dialect outside the brahmin circle, the more and more I stopped using the word (and other words related to brahmin dialect). But now and then, I can see it slipping in the company of aged relatives or parents.

I would say, in general the brahmin dialect is changing, or dying.