--- In cybalist@..., "Dieter A. Bachmann" <dab@...> wrote:
> re sanskrit nouns on -ij: Mylius knows of only 3 besides vaNij-:
> ... bhurij- has no etymology at all.
Could [bhurij-] have come from Dravidian? I read that over the
centuries Indian Sanskrit picked up more and more Dravidian words,
until the Andhra period, as if until then Dravidian persisted as the
language of the lower castes in much of north India.