Hotel - விடுதி
Cafe - அருந்தகம்
Hotel has today become a common word even in remote villages of Tamil Nadu. TN Govt has a law which has made it compulsory to write the name boards of shops/offices in Tamil also. Even then it is written as XYZ ஓட்டல் and not as விடுதி or உணவகம் (restaurant). This is how deep this word has gone into the minds of Tamil people.
அருந்தகம் - we have a native word for today's cafes also. It used to be the word for the road corner tea/coffee shops back in those days. அருந்து, like குடி, is the tamil word for the verb - to drink. அகம் has two meanings - inside/within and place/land. In this context, அகம் means place.
I wish there would be a day when words like விடுதி and அருந்தகம், which used to be common once, come back to life again. I don't believe in the argument that these words are not very stylish and hence cannot be used in the name boards of shops; trends/styles are something that is created and popularised, it only needs repeated mentions/hearings to get used to.
Cafe - அருந்தகம்
Hotel has today become a common word even in remote villages of Tamil Nadu. TN Govt has a law which has made it compulsory to write the name boards of shops/offices in Tamil also. Even then it is written as XYZ ஓட்டல் and not as விடுதி or உணவகம் (restaurant). This is how deep this word has gone into the minds of Tamil people.
அருந்தகம் - we have a native word for today's cafes also. It used to be the word for the road corner tea/coffee shops back in those days. அருந்து, like குடி, is the tamil word for the verb - to drink. அகம் has two meanings - inside/within and place/land. In this context, அகம் means place.
I wish there would be a day when words like விடுதி and அருந்தகம், which used to be common once, come back to life again. I don't believe in the argument that these words are not very stylish and hence cannot be used in the name boards of shops; trends/styles are something that is created and popularised, it only needs repeated mentions/hearings to get used to.
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