Re: Substrate language which contributed sarSapa to

From: richardwordingham
Message: 71539
Date: 2013-11-10

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <shivkhokra@...> wrote:

> Dear Jyothibabu,

>    You are putting words in Bhadriraju's mouth. Please show us with a proper reference where he comes up with derivation of Sarson (mustard) that you invented.


It wasn't claimed that Krishnamurthy suggested an etymology for _sarSapa_.  Moreover, the etymology proposed here doesn't derive the word from Tamil, but from _some_ Dravidian source.  Therefore, the *Tamil* loss of initial Proto-Dravidian *c is irrelevant to the suggested etymology.


Richard.