Where does “മൂപ്പ്” come from?

മൂപ്പ് (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam മ, from Malayalam -അർ, from Proto-Dravidian *-ar — Indicates a human plural noun.

മൂപ്പ് (Malayalam): oldness, maturity

Definitions

  1. oldness, maturity

Ancestry of “മൂപ്പ്”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MalayalamമThe 39th letter of Malayalam alphabet, called മ. Transliterated as m
2Malayalam-അർmarks the plural of nouns describing humans
3Proto-Dravidian*-arIndicates a human plural noun
Every word from Proto-Dravidian *-ar →Every word from Malayalam -അർ →Every word from Malayalam മ →
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