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This verb has an
analogous lexical verb ؽÔà { poodu which means `put, drop;
plunk down; serve (food)' or `put on' clothes. There is a semantic notion of
some lack of care with this verb, so if deliberate careful placing or setting
is intended, ÙÂ¿Õ vayyi is used instead. This verb is appropriate as
used for serving food, since in order to avoid contact (and ritual pollution),
food is often `dropped' on the plate, rather than placed carefully. The AV
ؽÔà poodu varies semantically more than some AV's; for many the
notion conveyed is that of bad faith, bad motives, or even malicious
intent.Annamalai (1985) calls this AV the verb of casualness;
for him the main notion is that speakers attribute motives of `lack of care,
inconsiderateness' etc. to others when using this AV. For others the main
notion implied by the use of ؽÔà poodu is that speakers think
of other speakers' motives as involving careless disregard for the likes and
desires of others, malice aforethought, etc. When bad motives are being
attributed, the most felicitious English translations for these AV's are with
expletives or pejorative adjectives, etc. Phonologically, the AV ؽÔà
poodu may be reduced to ¤à ptu by a by-no-means regular
rule that deletes long vowels in morphemes that are involved in the
grammaticalization process.This also happens with ؽÔÁ poola
as noted earlier.
Vasu Renganathan
Sat Nov 2 21:16:08 EST 1996