From Etymology To History
The critical link between Dravidian etymology and history is brought out by the following two sets of entries: DEDR 7: aka-m ‘inside, house, place’ aka-tt-u ‘within, inside the house’ aka-tt-an\ ‘one who is in, a householder’. C.W.Kathiraiver Pillai’s Dictionary (1910) (gloss in English added by Iravatham Mahadevan ):
aka-tt-i : (1) akattiya mun\ivan\ (‘Agastya, the sage’)
(2) ul|l|-irukkir\a-van\ (‘one who is in’)
(3) oru maram (‘Agasti grandiflora’).
Note how akatti in (1) and (3) get transformed to agasti in Indo-Aryan loanwords.
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