Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t2.17
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t2.17
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c22.s2.t2.17
*-aṇṇi*: honorific suffix (fem.). The dictionaries describe the word as 'local'. However, the word is undoubtedly ancient as it has been borrowed (along with the corresponding masculine honorific suffix *-aṇṇa*) in the early Prakrit inscriptions of South India.