Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English

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<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Oct 11 2007, 10:13 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Oct 11 2007, 10:13 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Padi is cognate with something in Sanskrit, but I thought cognates happen only in related languages.[right][snapback]74212[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->We do use padikkire often ('padikkardu' - to study, to read, not sure of how to spell in Roman characters). But I didn't know it was related to Samskritam. At least, I never really thought about it before.

However, I can think of two possible explanations - there may be more:
(1) these being termed "cognates" might have something to do with how Indian languages are closely related by being "Bharatiya Languages" as Dr Kalyanaraman has been explaining on his site(s); or
(2) the fact that - in spite of the evil christian bishop Caldwell doing his best to throw out all the Samskritam words in order to force-fit Thamizh into his invention of 'Dravidian' language - Thamizh still has a number of Samskritam words. Or the converse: it may be a Thamizh/Telugu/... word loaned into Samskritam.

But if they say it is a cognate, it looks like it might be (1). (Indologists will only ever allow for (2) of course, so they may confiscate your Telugu dictionary/dub the issuer a Hindutvadi or something.)