Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dravidian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dravidian \Dra*vid"i*an\, a. [From Skr. Dr[=a]vi[dsdot]a, the
name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.]
(Ethnol.)
Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
{Dravidian languages}, a group of languages of Southern
India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives,
before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these
languages, the Tamil is the most important.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Dravidian
n 1: a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed
south by Caucasians and now mixed with them) [syn: {Dravidian}]
2: a large family of languages spoken in south and central
India and Sri Lanka [syn: {Dravidian}, {Dravidic}, {Dravidian
language}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.