ஊர்

ஊர்

The Tamil word for village is also the Tamil word for one's place. When a Tamil speaker asks where someone is from, the standard phrasing is 'unga ūr enge?' — where is your ūr? It does not specify village or town. The word carries the older Proto-Dravidian sense of any human habitation, the settled place as such, against the wilderness. Krishnamurti's reconstruction puts this plainly: ūr was the general word, paḷḷi w

ஊர், கிராமம் / ஊர் / பள்ளி / ஊராண்மை