Where does “പുണ്യാളൻ” come from?

പുണ്യാളൻ (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam ആൾ, from Malayalam -ഇ — ator, -ed, -machine; suffix added to a verb to produce agent nouns (names of machines that corresponds to its respective root verb.).

പുണ്യാളൻ (Malayalam): saint

Definitions

  1. saint

Ancestry of “പുണ്യാളൻ”, step by step

പുണ്യാളൻ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malayalam ആൾ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamആൾperson; individual
2Malayalam-ഇator, -ed, -machine; suffix added to a verb to produce agent nouns (names of machines that corresponds to its respective root verb.)

via Malayalam പുണ്യ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamപുണ്യholy
2Sanskritपुण्यthe good or right, virtue, purity, good work,...
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