About

Tamizh Lexicon is an etymological dictionary in essay form. It follows Tamil words across older Tamil, classical poetry, Sanskrit and other-language contact, and modern speech.

The project is not a crowd-sourced wiki. It is a curated notebook with one editorial voice. Each entry asks a simple question: what did this word carry from one age to the next?

The site uses structured frontmatter for sourceable claims and readable prose for interpretation. The data keeps the entry honest. The marginalia keeps the entry alive.

Tamil script is deliberately large here. The word comes first; everything else is annotation.