Reversing of consonants

[VS Prasad]

Some ancient scripts were written from left to
right, and some were written from right to left. A
Telugu legend in India says that one of their
ancestors visited a western land. Can these words
have originated from that interaction? The second
one in the pair is a Telugu word having the same
meaning which is being used since 2000 years.

arid - edauri
bear - orpu
cap - paaga
creep - praaku
dance - chindu
fight - tagavu
fish - saepa
glow - velugu
grow - perugu
jug - kooja
leg - kaulu
pain - noppi
reach - chaeru
stab - poduchu
tank - kunta
wood (forest) - adawi

[jno]

unlikely, I would have thought. Whichever way you read them, written scripts are simply representations of spoken language; it's that which would have to change. It does sometimes happen that consonants get muddled up : a wasp used occasionally to be a waps. But I think you'd be struggling to come up with a linguistic philosophy linking stab and poduchu.