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Acknowledgment
I thank Frederick Smith for sharing with me his knowledge of Sanskrit.
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Notes
1. Malayalam is the exception, having developed later than the others and having a high quantity of lexical borrowings from Sanskrit.
2. M. Monier-Williams, Sanskrit–English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899), p. 1152.
3. The 1971 Fabricius edition of the Tamil and English dictionary glosses the Tamil entry camaṉ as ‘evenness’ and ‘equality’, and camāṉam as ‘equality’, ‘likeness’ and ‘comparison’. See Johann Philipp Fabricius, J.P. Fabricius's Tamil and English Dictionary (Tranquebar: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Publishing House, 4th ed., 1972), p. 346.
4. In linguistics, the addition of such a vowel sound is called final anaptyxis, although the Sanskrit word, svarabhakti, is also used to indicate the addition of the extra vowel sound.