Where does “ഏ-” come from?

ഏ- (Malayalam) comes from Proto-Dravidian *yā.

ഏ- (Malayalam): interrogative prefix; e.g. ഇത് "this" > ഏത് "which?"

Definitions

  1. interrogative prefix; e.g. ഇത് "this" > ഏത് "which?"

Ancestry of “ഏ-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Dravidian*yā—
Every word from Proto-Dravidian *yā →