தொலைக்காட்சி

Tamil

Etymology

தொலை (tolai, “distance, tele-”) +‎ காட்சி (kāṭci, “show, display”); created as a calque of English television soon after the introduction of the medium to South India.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪olaɪ̯kːaːʈt͡ɕi/, [t̪olɐɪ̯kːaːʈsi]

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

தொலைக்காட்சி • (tolaikkāṭci)

1. television (the medium)

   Synonym: (Singapore) தொலைநோக்கி (tolainōkki)

2. (India) regional television broadcasted from Madras (Chennai) as opposed to the national feed from Delhi when public broadcaster Doordarshan was the only television provider.

   Coordinate term: (national feed) தூர்தர்ஷன் (tūrtarṣaṉ)

See also

• தொலைக்காட்சிப் பெட்டி (tolaikkāṭcip peṭṭi, “television set”)

References

• S. Ramakrishnan (1992), “தொலைக்காட்சி”, in தற்காலத் தமிழ் அகராதி [Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil] (in Tamil), Madras: Cre-A Publishers, page 590
• Schiffman, Harold (1999), “Language, Primordialism and Sentiment”, in Languages of Sentiment‎^[1] (in English), volume 18, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, DOI:10.1075/aicr.18.03sch
• Schiffman, Harold F. (2008-01), “The Ausbau issue in the Dravidian languages: the case of Tamil and the problem of purism”, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language‎^[2], volume 2008, issue 191, DOI:10.1515/IJSL.2008.024, ISSN 0165-2516, pages 8-9