Is there a Tamil equivalent of ‘netizen’, ‘hotspot’ or ‘groupfie’? The answer would have been no until a year ago. But a Tamil Nadu government project to create a word bank now has an appropriate ...

Many Tamil and Japanese words bear phonetic and semantic resemblances, claim researchers. "There are more than 500 Tamil words in Japanese," a retired Japanese professor has claimed. CHENNAI: Many ...

Dry eyes could from now on be termed ular vizhi in Tamil, while cardiac failure is irudhaya seyalizhappu and anaesthesia is unarvagatri. Creating Tamil equivalents for English medical terminology has ...

The Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year 2013 was ‘selfie’ — that ubiquitous genre of photography that has exploded as a common practice, thanks to the smartphone. But the word, like so many other ...

CHENNAI: The 45-year-old Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project is reinventing itself to preserve Tamil words for posterity. The directorate is all set to bring out three dictionaries ...

Chennai: The State government has identified or coined over 4.91 lakh Tamil words, as part of an initiative by the Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture Department, its Minister K. Pandiarajan has ...