Where does “എ-” come from?

എ- (Malayalam) comes from Proto-Dravidian *yA- — which (interrogative root).

എ- (Malayalam): interrogative prefix

Definitions

  1. interrogative prefix

Ancestry of “എ-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Dravidian*yA-which (interrogative root)

Words derived from “എ-”

Every word from Proto-Dravidian *yA- →