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paraiyar · Tamil
noun · Tamil
Transliteration: paraiyar
a hereditary drummer community. The source connects paraiyar with parai, a large festival drum, and describes the community label in southern India.
Date not yet researched — The inspected source names this form but does not supply an independent date for this stage.
Location not yet researched — The inspected lexical passage does not establish a defensible historical coordinate for this stage.
pariah: Portuguese mediation and direct Tamil borrowing remain visible alternatives; the later social-outcast sense is authored as a separate English development. Entry — etymology paragraph
paria · Portuguese
noun · Portuguese
Transliteration: paria
a southern Indian caste label. Portuguese paria is retained as a reported European form in the source's alternative route.
Date not yet researched — The inspected source names this form but does not supply an independent date for this stage.
Location not yet researched — The inspected lexical passage does not establish a defensible historical coordinate for this stage.
pariah: Portuguese mediation and direct Tamil borrowing remain visible alternatives; the later social-outcast sense is authored as a separate English development. Entry — etymology paragraph
pariah · English
noun · English
Transliteration: pariah
a member of a low caste or outcaste. Early English pariah is scoped to the southern Indian caste sense described by the source.
c. 1610s · English pariah — The source gives a decade of English record, not the date of the Tamil form or borrowing event.
Location not yet researched — The inspected lexical passage does not establish a defensible historical coordinate for this stage.
pariah: Portuguese mediation and direct Tamil borrowing remain visible alternatives; the later social-outcast sense is authored as a separate English development. Entry — etymology paragraph
pariah · English
noun · English
Transliteration: pariah
a social outcast. English later extends pariah to a general social outcast, a separate semantic development.
1819 · social-outcast sense — The source dates the extended sense to 1819.
Location not yet researched — The inspected lexical passage does not establish a defensible historical coordinate for this stage.
pariah: Portuguese mediation and direct Tamil borrowing remain visible alternatives; the later social-outcast sense is authored as a separate English development. Entry — etymology paragraph
paraiyar → paria: borrowing, qualified. Portuguese paria is one reported mediation route. Entry — etymology paragraph
paria → pariah: borrowing, documented. The relationship is represented at the scope supported by the inspected source passage. Entry — etymology paragraph
paraiyar → pariah: borrowing, alternative. The source also permits a direct Tamil-to-English account. Entry — etymology paragraph
pariah → pariah: semantic-change, documented. The relationship is represented at the scope supported by the inspected source passage. Entry — etymology paragraph