Tamil words of Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit is the primary ancient language spoken in most part of the world including Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe. Later it evolved into early languages such as Prakrit, Pali, old Tamil, Persian, Greek, Latin, Javanese, Sumerian and old Chinese. The modern languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Arab, Hebrew, Thai, Malay, Tagalog, Korean, Chinese, English, German, French, Russian and many others are of recent offshoot of these early languages.

In this page we will decipher the root of Tamil words from Sanskrit. Tamil has more connection to Sanskrit than any other language in the world. Sanskrit and Tamil were instrumental in developing many other languages.

The Tamil word for grammar "ilakkanam", is derived from the Sanskrit "lakṣaṇa", so too a number of other words that have to do with grammar in Tamil are of Sanskrit origin.

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1. Vedabase.io — Online multilingual research tool

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