Karnatakabhashabhushana 7.4

English (machine translation) 7.4

[The suffix] ica [occurs] in the sense of ‘born there’ or ‘being there’.

The suffix ica occurs after a stem ending in the locative case in the meaning ‘born there’ [or] ‘being there’.

poṟalicaṁ [‘town-dweller’],

alaricaṁ [‘born of flowers, i.e., Kāma’],

karahaḍicaṁ [‘native of Karahāṭa’],

kāluricaṁ [‘native of Kālūr’].

Here, shortening [of the vowel] is to be stated according to usage.

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