Talk:ഫണം

Travancore_Rupee 15:18, 6 May 2023‎ (UTC)
 * It looks like rather than the Malayalam word being spelt so, the Westerners used the spelling fanam incidentally. The cognates also uses letter /pa/ (in Tamil and Telugu). From w:Travancore Fanam: "The word Fanam appears to be an Anglo-Germanic sound shift from the word Panam, which means money in Dravidian languages" Vis M (talk) 15:55, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * its the anglicized spelling like kochi-cochin, kozhikode-calicut, kollam-quilon even in Danish fano and French fanon, it was used in Madras too AleksiB 1945 (talk) 14:51, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, so the Malayalam spelling was always "പണം" and not "ഫണം" Vis M (talk) 04:22, 7 May 2023 (UTC)