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Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.
Telugu words generally end in vowels. In Old Telugu, this was absolute; in the modern language m, n, y, w may end a word. Sanskrit loans have introduced aspirated and murmured consonants as well. Telugu does not have contrastive stress, and speakers vary on where they perceive stress. Most place it on the penultimate or final syllable ...
Pages in category "Telugu words and phrases" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M.
The concept of metaphrase (word-for-word translation) is an imperfect concept, because a given word in a given language often carries more than one meaning, and because a similar given meaning may often be represented in a given language by more than one word. Nevertheless, metaphrase and paraphrase may be useful as ideal concepts that mark the ...
His writing style was mostly Telugu, unlike Nannayya whose work was mostly sanskritized. Tikkana used Telugu words even to express very difficult ideas. He used Telugu words and parables extensively. [citation needed] In the colophons of his work, Tikkana calls himself "a friend to both [kinds of] poets" (Ubhaya-kavi-mitra).
Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo. [45] Older forms of the name include Teluṅgu and Tenuṅgu. [46] Tenugu is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *ten ("south") [47] to mean "the people who lived in the south/southern direction". The name Telugu, then, is a result of an "n" to "l" alternation established in Telugu ...
The word Mahānubhāvulu is made up of two words, mahát and anubhava. Mahát is a superlative term which means "great, important, high, eminent" and is related to the word mahadbhū which means "to become great or full (said of the moon)". [4] [5] The term anubhava refers to experience or knowledge derived from personal observation. [6]
The first recorded use of the word multilingual in the English language occurred in the 1830s. The word is a combination of multi-("many") and -lingual ("pertaining to languages"). [9] The phenomenon of multilingualism is as old as the very existence of different languages. [10]