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Anyways, we have several descriptions of hot weather in Tamil. Part of the reason is that its always hot in Chennai, India and we love complaining about the heat constantly.
Wait, Hava means air in Hindi as well . In reality, Hindi is a mixture of Arabic and Sanskrit words written in the Devanagari script. Similarly, Urdu is a mixture of Sanskrit and Arabic, but it still retains the Arabic script. History of indian languages is interesting, since in the middle ages India was a major economic power with plenty of trade to other parts of Asia.
In Turkish we have plenty of words which are of arabic or persian origin.
Hava comes from arabic word of هَوَاءُ and we use it so much in everyday life.
It is interesting that Hindi and Turkish use same word with same meaning
Generally when one borrows a word from other language, the meaning of the word is changed.
Anyways, we have several descriptions of hot weather in Tamil. Part of the reason is that its always hot in Chennai, India and we love complaining about the heat constantly.
Are there native Tamil words for snow / ice / blizzard etc, since presumably the language developed in a part of the world where people wouldn't have been familiar with those concepts?
Are there native Tamil words for snow / ice / blizzard etc, since presumably the language developed in a part of the world where people wouldn't have been familiar with those concepts?
No. We use the word "pani" to refer to cold and overcast and "kuluru" to imply chilly. But that's about it.
How would you explain to a Tamil person that it was snowing then? Would you have to say "It's raining cold white stuff" or something like that?
We just say "ice katti" for freezing rain/graupel/hail and snow is just referred to as snow. Snow has never been recorded in Southern India, but freezing rain does occur in Ooty from time to time. There are words in Hindi for snow as parts of Northern India get snow.
Helle = any temp above 25.1C, but I have no idea from where the word comes from. Started appearing in early 1700's.
aalto = wave
Kuumalaine
Kuumus - heat. Laine - wave.
Surprisingly different in Finnish and Estonian.
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. In reality, Hindi is a mixture of Arabic and Sanskrit words written in the Devanagari script. Similarly, Urdu is a mixture of Sanskrit and Arabic, but it still retains the Arabic script. History of indian languages is interesting, since in the middle ages India was a major economic power with plenty of trade to other parts of Asia.
