Where does “വെറുമ” come from?

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

വെറുമ (Malayalam): emptiness, void

Definitions

  1. emptiness, void

Ancestry of “വെറുമ”, step by step

വെറുമ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malayalam മ

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

via Malayalam വെറും

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamവെറുംjust
Every word from Proto-Dravidian *-ar →Every word from Malayalam -അർ →Every word from Malayalam മ →