Where does “ఇద్దరు” come from?

ఇద్దరు (Telugu) comes from Telugu వారు, from Proto-Dravidian a- — that, that there.

ఇద్దరు (Telugu): each of the two; one and the other; both

Definitions

  1. each of the two; one and the other; both

Ancestry of “ఇద్దరు”, step by step

ఇద్దరు traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Telugu వారు

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Teluguవారుthey; third-person human distal plural personal...
2Proto-Dravidiana-that, that there

via Telugu ఇరు

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Teluguఇరు2; two
Every word from Proto-Dravidian a- →Every word from Telugu వారు →