யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்

When I read on Baltimore or Coimbatore or Indore or Singpore or Ullanbatore or Nishapur, or Jaipur or Bangalore or Mysore or Borobudur or the other numerous ‘ur’ s or ‘ore’ s it just reminds me of Tamil saying Yaathu ure yaavarum keylir as All are towns, All are our friends.

Its also interesting to know that Abram or Abraham comes from Ur again.

In another place a Tamil scholar of some university was mentioning in a TV talk show that all the bads in towns like Allahabad or Ahmadabad comes from ‘pathi’. This is quite clear when we know there were names of Gods in Zarathusthra who moved from Saurashtra region of India to mid east also have these names of God ending with ‘pathi’. This is no surprise as we still have the names as ‘Pasupathi’

Another name while writing comes to mind is on ‘son’ who is coming in many Scandinavian names as Anderson or Patterson and our own names like Kathireson or Murugeson. Guess there must be some kind of links…Perhaps some Tamil pundits will be able to tell what ‘son’ means?