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TLUGU. Candu to fade or decay as flowers and fruit by heat- Canalu to become angry - fade. Canu to see - to bring forth a child. CANN.ADI. TAMIL. Candu as in Tel Candu as in Tel 8f Can. It has this meaning in Tam. when, the last syllable is writen ru but pronounced du when written with the game final consonant as in Tel- and Can. it signifies to be spqiled - / T -j to perish generally. Canam to become rancid- to acquire a bad taste or smell by smoke or keeping. This root is used as a noun in Te- luguin the same sense. Canalu to kindle as fire - c an al to become angry. an( j Candal 3 Used as a noun, Canal means fire. In the first sense, to tee, this root in the present and future of the Can. and Tam. is written with a long a and with the nasal of the third series of conso- nants Con and Canw; in the past it is short Canden.Candenu, as in Tel : the second sense is peculiar to the latter language ; but Candu a calf in Tamil is evidently derived: from it. This root is not used in Tam. ei. ther in it's Tel. or Can. sense, but it is evident that from it in the latter acceptation is derived the Tamil terms, Capparu a hollow bason car- lied by beggars, and Cappel a ship. v become an- Cappu to dig a pit - ex- cavate - hollow out.

But though radical connection may be proved to exist between languages, their actual connection, as regards terms used for the expression of ideas, may not be intimate and it becomes necessary, therefore, to establish this point, to enter further into detail and compare the words of the three cognate dialects, as well as the roots whence they are derived. Mamidi Vencaya, the author of the Andhra Dipaca, an excellent Dictionary of the Telugu, has, in the preface to this work, introduced a concise analysis of the language, the substance of which, as affording the means, of making this comparison, is translated in the following paragraph.

"The modes of derivation in the Andhra language are four; they are Tatsaman, Tadbhavan, Desyam and Gramyam,