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- From: selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
- Subject: Re: A ThEvaaram verse (translation)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:17:08 GMT
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- In article <C1D929.Lxr@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu) writes:
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- >As I indicated with a question mark, I do not know the meaning of
- >moosu. In colloquial Tamil (used in Jaffna) this word means heavy and noisy
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >breathing (especillay after a hard work or of an asthma patient).
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- In Tamil Nadu too, moosu refers to the 'heavy and noisy breathing'.
- The expression 'moosu moosu enRu vElai seykiRaan' or 'uzhaikkiRaan'
- refers to the hard work.
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- > [ deleted some]
- >Meenan Vishnu
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- - Selva
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