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Tamil language antiquity: New dictionary links Tamil to Indo-European roots

With excavations such as the one at Keeladi revealing an urban civilisation in Tamil Nadu dating back more than 2,000 years, debates around looking at Indian history from a South India perspective ...
The Hindu

First Tamil-English dictionary by a Tamil

In the history of Tamil dictionaries, A Tamil-English Dictionary has a special place. Published in 1870 and reissued in 1888 by V. Visvanatha Pillai, it is probably the first dictionary compiled by a ...
The Hindu

Udhayanidhi Stalin releases fourth volume of etymological dictionary of Tamil, Indo-European languages

Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday (February 21, 2026) released the fourth volume of the comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages and inaugurated an ...
The New Indian Express

Metro Train is 'Maanagara Thodari', noodles, 'Izhaiyunavu': 14 lakh Tamil words & counting, Sorkuvai journey from Sangam era continues

CHENNAI: Sorkuvai Project, a comprehensive word corpus initiative of the Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of the State government launched in 2019, has uploaded 14 lakh words with ...
Indiatimes

Lyricist Madan Karky launches Tamil - English dictionary Chol Agaraadhi

CHENNAI: Imagine a Tamil to English dictionary that contains 4.25 lakh words. Karky Research Foundation (KaReFo), which has been working on Tamil computing and language literacy research for the past ...
The New Indian Express

Tracing Indo-European languages’ Tamil roots

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ could be traced to Tamil. While etymology links it to the Sanskrit root ‘pri’ ...