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The Tamil language, primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, Mauritian Creole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi.
- Ballet. In English, ballet is a “type of theatrical art that uses dance in the form of controlled and precise movements to convey a story, theme, or atmosphere.”
- Déjà vu. Have you ever gone through a scenario that you’re certain you’ve already encountered before? If so, then you’ve experienced déjà vu. In French, déjà vu is also the phrase used for this other-worldly “sensation of having previously lived a moment, even if you haven't.”
- Illusion. The definition of illusion in English is “something that the senses are likely to perceive incorrectly.” This word is not too distant from its many meanings in French, one of them being “deceptive appearance.”
- Angst. Angst is a “deep feeling of anxiety or dread” we may experience from time to time. This is a loanword from German, which defines this word as “fear” or “anxiety.”
Most discussions of the subject of loanwords in connection with the Tamil language land to be directed toward the question of words that Tamil is assumed to have borrowed from other languages.
Feb 2, 2017 · This is a collection of loanwords in the three languages- Hindi, Sanskrit, Greek, Minoan and English, of Tamil origin, described with the route of acquisition wandever relevant, and their...
Mar 9, 2016 · Category:Tamil learned borrowings: Tamil terms that are learned loanwords, that is, terms that were directly incorporated from another language instead of through normal language contact.
Loanwords from Tamil, mainly exist in cuisine, like Chinese and unlike Sanskrit. It mainly entered the lexicon of Classical Malay (and by extension, its Modern and Indonesian variants) with the immigration of South Indian traders who settled around the Strait of Malacca .
Apr 6, 2021 · This book "AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF TAMIL LOANWORDS IN ENGLISH, HINDI, SANSKRIT, GREEK, MINOAN and CYPRO-MINOAN LANGUAGES" is a collection of over 1500 words in different languages -current and ancient, that are derived from Tamil.
- Arumugam Subramanian Senthil Kumar
