A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.26

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The S. and M. forms seem to be connected, and with them I would associate the common O. expressions ए आड़े “in this direction,” “hither” (ओ आड़े, को आड़े, etc.), which are locatives, and ए आडु, etc., “from this place,” “hence,” which are ablatives. The Sindhi adverb, as usual in that language, is written in a dozen ways, but the simplest form is उड़े “hither,” and उड़ी “hence,” which, like O., are respectively locative and ablative. Marathi has what is apparently a fuller form इकडे “hither,” locative, where the adverbial portion is कड “a side,” said to be from Skr. कट “hip, loin.” It has also an ablative series इकडून “hence.” May we not here throw out a crumb for our Non-Aryan brethren? There is a long string of words in our seven languages of the type adda, and our Sanskrit dictionaries give √अड् “to join,” also “to stop.” On the other hand, Telugu has ikkaḍa “here,” ikkaḍiki “hither,” which looks very like M. ikaḍe. So, also, in Telugu akkaḍa “there.” All the Dravidian languages have a root add, which, in various forms, has a range of meanings such as “to be near,” “close,” “to cross,” “to stop,” and the like. They may have borrowed from the Aryans, or the Aryans from them. It by no means follows, as the opposite party always assume, that when a word is common to both groups, it must have been originally Dravidian. In the O. expression आड़ is a noun meaning “direction,” and is used in that sense independently of its adverbial employment with the pronoun.