Curio

Words from Tamil

3 words in Curio passed through Tamil on their way into English.

About Tamil

Dravidian language, in the Tamil languages group  ·  spoken today

Where

Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry in India, and the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka

When

Speakers

75M

as of 2019

Speakers, Wikidata figure for 2019

Family path

  1. Tamil
  2. LatinMalayalam
  3. English

Where it came from

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, attested since about 300 BCE. Its script evolved from Tamil Brahmi, and the vatteluttu script was used later, until the current script was standardized.

Source: Wikipedia

Family

Tamil grew out of Dravidian.

The words, A to Z

  • catamaran

    A boat whose name literally describes how it was built.

  • curry

    This word for a spiced dish actually cooked up out of two unrelated kitchens at once.

  • pariah

    The word for someone cast out began as the name for someone who kept a rhythm.