Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s12: 7.10 Sandhi without change
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s12
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7.10 Sandhi without change
c27.s12.1
Sandhi may take place without any change. This is known as 'natural sandhi' (*iyalpu-p-puṇarcci*) in traditional grammar. In the Corpus, sandhi without change occurs mostly at the junction of a stem-final vowel followed by a consonant (nasal or liquid) as illustrated below.
c27.s12.2
| *aṟuvai-vaṇikaṉ* | 'cloth merchant' | 46.2.a-b |
| *iḷanataṉ* | | 17.1.a-b |
| *u(p)pu-vāṇikaṉ* | 'salt merchant' | 39.1.a-b |
| *eṇṇai-vāṇṇikaṉ* (- *vāṇikaṉ*) | 'oil merchant' | 70.1.a-c |
| *erumināṭu* | | 49.1.a-b |
| *eḷamakaṉ* | 'a clan name' | 56.5.a-b |
| *kaṇimāṉ* | | 73.1.a-b |
| *koḷu-vaṇikaṉ* | 'ironmonger' | 43.1.a-b |
| *ciṟuceṇṇaṉ* | | 106.1.a-b |
| *neṭuma(l)laṉ* | | 42.2.a-b |
| *poṉ-vāṇikaṉ* | 'gold merchant' | 69.2.a-b |