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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, trgovindarajan wrote:

> --- In SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "M.N.Ramanuja" <mnr@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > These  rules apply to borrowed words in tamil.
> > Adding a little more of the rules, when the word begins with short
> 'ra' as
> > in 'ranga' letter 'a' precedes it as in 'aravam' 'arambhaiyar' etc.
> >
> > When the word starts with a long 'aa' as in ramanuja, letter 'i'
> precedes
> > it as in 'irAmanuja' 'iramayana' etc.
> >
> > When the word starts with 'ru' or 'ruu' or 'ro' or 'lo' then the
> word is
> > preceded by 'u' as in 'uruvam' 'uruupam' 'ulokam' 'urohini' etc.
> >
> > It is seen that 'uruupam' became 'uruvam' 'ulokam' became 'ulaham' etc.
> >  Similarly, lakshyam in sanskrit becomes 'ilakkiyam' and 'lakshanam' 
> > of sanskrit becomes 'ilakkaNam' in tamil


> > Regards
> > Ramanuja
> >
> 
> srI:
> In Tamil, ulokam also means "metal" whereas alokam means "nonmetal".
> dasan.
> 
  
  Sri:

   Distinctly speaking, in sanskrit, loka stands for world and loha stands 
for a metal. Confusion arises in tamil since 'k' is sometimes pronounced 
as 'h' so by context one has to interpret as world or metal in tamil. That 
facility of negating a word by prefixing 'a' is only available in 
sanskrit. So 'aloha' is a sanskrit word. I have not seen its usage in 
tamil, if I am right.

Dasan 





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