How many Tamil words are there in the recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)? Gregory James, a professor with the Language Centre of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ...

Is there a Tamil equivalent of ‘netizen’, ‘hotspot’ or ‘groupfie’? The answer would have been no until a year ago. But a Tamil Nadu government project to create a word bank now has an appropriate ...

Dry eyes could from now on be termed ular vizhi in Tamil, while cardiac failure is irudhaya seyalizhappu and anaesthesia is unarvagatri. Creating Tamil equivalents for English medical terminology has ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Matthew Prock This summer I’ve been learning Tamil. Not only is it the primary language ...

Tamils must learn to replicate the success and sweep of English language that did not stagnate at its origins but revolved to retain its relevance and eminence. This will partly address genuine ...

CHENNAI: A verse from ancient Tamil devotional treatise Thiruvachakam by saint poet Manickavachakar adores the Almighty as ‘‘munnai pazhamporutkum munnai pazham poruzhae (You are oldest of the old and ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ could be traced to Tamil. While etymology links it to the Sanskrit root ‘pri’ ...