TUTTLE, Edwin Hotchkiss. New Haven, Conn. 23.9.1879 — Washington, DC 25.1.1939. U.S. Phonetician and Dravidian Scholar. Son of lawyer Lucius Bement Tuttle (1840–1929) and Emma Louise Hotchkiss. After Hillhouse High School studied at Yale College, graduated 1901. Further studies in Paris. Language teacher at Mackenzie School in Dobbs Ferry, New York and at Boys’ Latin School in Baltimore, Maryland. Committed suicide. Unmarried. He was keenly looking for distant connections (Finnic, Nubian).
Publications: “Derivatives of Sanskrit eka”, AJPh 43, 1922, 170; “Sanskrit ṣṭhīv-”, JAOS 46, 1926, 60.
– Numerous short articles and notes on Dravidian in AJPh 38-49, 1917-28, JAOS 46-59, 1926-39, also in BSOS 4:3, 1927, 575-577 & 4:4, 1928, 769-778 & 8:2-3, 1936 (Grierson Vol.), 813-815.
– Dravidian Developments. 40 p. Ling. Soc. of America Language Monographs 5. 1930; Finnic and Dravidian. 12 p. New Haven n.d. (1911).
– Studies on English and Romance languages.
Sources: R.S.S. Nair, DLA News. 42:11, 2018, 3 (ijdl.org); Yale Obituary Record 1940, 114 (in drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ms.1215&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes).
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