28 On the Language, Manners, and Rites, of the [July 



Sanscrit sain, to move, to go, it is corrupted both into Hindustani and 

 Tamil. The word for don't fear seems to bear a relation to the Tamil 

 crgy^^G" $ anjaie. The word for laughing is preserved in the Tamil. 



phrase ^ isiQtfoor^S rfteS-TJJeBr he lau S hs utterin S cacac > 

 in the Telugu S^^tt 0 ^) cacacnavu, is a rude, or horse laugh ; and a 

 resemblance is also found in our common English, to chuckle. The phrase 

 for talk is half Hindustani, half Telugu. Tenoomoo for eat, in the Ta- 

 mil (fFi^fS^j tinnu, with the Khoond termination. Voonoomoo in like 



manner is the Tamil jg^j unnu, eat or drink. The word for 



tell is Telugu. Tonay for friend, is the Tamil j^glRr&t tuna h a 



friend, a prop. The other word is Sanscrit mitra* a friend, it is 

 adopted into Tamil, but most usually to signify treacherous friend- 

 ship. The words for light, and break of day, have only an obscure re- 

 semblance to Tamil words of like meaning. For night, the word 

 resembles the Tamil ^ ^ ^ ;ld nattam, night. The word for stars re- 

 jecting the Khoond plural is Telugu succu a star. The word for 

 morning seems the same as the Telugu, tt>S^o nadu a day. Borasaka, 

 for year, or, as I suppose, for years is no doubt, the Tamil 

 (aj^s^LO varusham, a year. The three following* words, for hot, 



cold, and rainy season seem to come from the Hindustani : the same 

 remark applies to the word for maiming. The word for hundred seems 

 to be a corruption of the Sanscrit word, that for thousand is I think the 

 same as the Tamil e g/ uhllrr ld ayiram, and for two thousand, a sort of 



bad pronunciation of the Tamil n u 1$ rr ld ^ ra !/ t ' ram ) tw » thousand. 



Such is the result of an investigation of the list of words, transmit- 

 ted by Mr. Stevenson, expressly made the more minute, because both of 

 the precision and check afforded by being written in Telugu characters : 

 without these I should not have been able to give the words their proper 

 enunciation, as the English orthography is not systematic and therefore 

 uncertain. It must, however, be remembered that even the Telugu only 

 gives the sound as conveyed to the ears of a comparative foreigner; 

 though more likely to catch the true sound than an English ear. I sup- 

 pose the mountaineers in question to have no written language. 



From what has been stated, conclusions might be ventured ; but it 

 may be best to bring in further examples. The vocabulary of ~Di\ 

 Maxwell has a somewhat larger number of words and phrases. .It was 

 accompanied by the following letter : 



* It would have been desirable to give the Sanscrit in the original Devandgari 

 characters, in the same way as the Tamil and Telugu characters are given. They were 

 written in the copy ; but omitted, I presume, through a want of that kind of type. 



