Note 8 — Chapter XXV · LANGUAGE

D, ḍ, t, th. I have used the sign d for two sounds in the text. One I could not distinguish from the English sound expressed by this letter. It is sometimes the representative of nd of Badaga, mand or village becoming mad in Toda,8 while the Badaga form of Pidati is Benduti. The d of other Dravidian languages often becomes t in Toda; thus pandava becomes pateva, and the Teivaliol almost certainly derive their name from some form of the word deva.