Where does “നാലമ്പലം” come from?

നാലമ്പലം (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam നാൽ, from Malayalam പത്ത്, from Malayalam നാല്, from Old Swedish nāl, from Old Norse nál, from Proto-Germanic nēþlō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₁- — to spin (thread), to sew.

നാലമ്പലം (Malayalam): the four walls of a temple surrounding the shrine

Definitions

  1. the four walls of a temple surrounding the shrine

Ancestry of “നാലമ്പലം”, step by step

നാലമ്പലം traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malayalam നാൽ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamനാൽ—
2Malayalamപത്ത്ten (numeral: ൰)
3Malayalamനാല്four (numeral: ൪)
4Old Swedishnālneedle
5Old Norsenálneedle
6Proto-Germanicnēþlōneedle
7Proto-Indo-European(s)neh₁-to spin (thread), to sew

via Malayalam അമ്പലം

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamഅമ്പലംtemple
2Paliambala—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₁- →Every word from Proto-Germanic nēþlō →Every word from Old Norse nál →