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== Etymology == | == Etymology == | ||
The word ''Tolkāppiyam'' is a attribute-based composite word, with ''tol'' meaning "ancient, old", and ''kappiyam'' meaning "book, text, poem, kavya"; together, the title has been translated as "ancient book",{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=131–132 with footnote 1}} "ancient poem",<ref name="Ziegenbalg2010p1">{{cite book|author=Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg|title=Tamil Language for Europeans: Ziegenbalg's Grammatica Damulica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1HKzGXIUIUC&pg=PA1 |year=2010|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-06236-7|pages=1–2}}</ref> or "old poem".<ref name="ReijenWeststeijn1999p321">{{cite book|author1=Willem van Reijen|author2=Willem G. Weststeijn|title=Subjectivity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8F6_FJmaC20C&pg=PA321|year=1999|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-0728-1|pages=321–322}}</ref> The word 'kappiyam' is of [[Indo-Aryan]] origin from the [[Sanskrit]] ''Kavya''.<ref>Sir Ralph Lilley Turner - A comparative dictionary to the Indo-Aryan languages, Entry 3110 kāˊvya https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=kāvikā&searchhws=yes</ref> | The word ''Tolkāppiyam'' is a attribute-based composite word, with ''tol'' meaning "ancient, old", and ''kappiyam'' meaning "book, text, poem, kavya"; together, the title has been translated as "ancient book",{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=131–132 with footnote 1}} "ancient poem",<ref name="Ziegenbalg2010p1">{{cite book|author=Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg|title=Tamil Language for Europeans: Ziegenbalg's Grammatica Damulica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1HKzGXIUIUC&pg=PA1 |year=2010|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-06236-7|pages=1–2}}</ref> or "old poem".<ref name="ReijenWeststeijn1999p321">{{cite book|author1=Willem van Reijen|author2=Willem G. Weststeijn|title=Subjectivity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8F6_FJmaC20C&pg=PA321|year=1999|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-0728-1|pages=321–322}}</ref> The word 'kappiyam' is of [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] origin from the [[Sanskrit]] ''Kavya''.<ref>Sir Ralph Lilley Turner - A comparative dictionary to the Indo-Aryan languages, Entry 3110 kāˊvya https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=kāvikā&searchhws=yes</ref> | ||
According to [[Kamil Zvelebil]] – a Tamil literature and history scholar, Tamil purists tend to reject this Sanskrit-style etymology and offer "curious" alternatives. One of these breaks it into three "tol-kappu-iyanratu", meaning "ancient protection [of language]".{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=131–132 with footnote 1}} An alternate etymology that has been proposed by a few purists is that the name of the work derives from the author's name Tolkāppiyan, but this is a disputed assumption because neither the author(s) nor centuries in which this masterpiece was composed are known.{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=131–132 with footnote 1}} | According to [[Kamil Zvelebil]] – a Tamil literature and history scholar, Tamil purists tend to reject this Sanskrit-style etymology and offer "curious" alternatives. One of these breaks it into three "tol-kappu-iyanratu", meaning "ancient protection [of language]".{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=131–132 with footnote 1}} An alternate etymology that has been proposed by a few purists is that the name of the work derives from the author's name Tolkāppiyan, but this is a disputed assumption because neither the author(s) nor centuries in which this masterpiece was composed are known.{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=131–132 with footnote 1}} | ||