Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s18.t3: 7.16.3 Elision of the stem-final shortened -u (with doubling of the preceding consonant before a vowel)

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s18.t3

*ekkāṭṭūru* (*ekkāṭu* + *ūru*) 117.1.b-c

*aimpattēḷ*(u)(*aimpatu*+ *ēḷu*) 116.1.b-c

*kuṟṟaṉ* (*kuṟu* + *aṉ*) 63.4.b

*yāṟṟūr* (*yāṟu* + *ūr*) 61.3.a-b

In some cases doubling is represented orthographically by a single consonant.

*erukāṭur* (*erukkāṭṭur* < *eru* + *kāṭu* + *ur* (*ūr*), (cf. LT *erukkāṭṭūr*) 55.1.a-b-c

*ceṟ-ataṉ* (*ceṟṟataṉ* < *ceṟu* (LT *ciṟu*) + *ataṉ*) 12.4.a-b

*pāṉkāṭa* (*pāṉkāṭṭa* < *pāṉkāṭu* + *a*) 'of Pāṉkāṭu' 8.1.b

In the following exceptional case, the stem-final shortened *-u* is preserved before the succeeding vowel and there is no change in sandhi:

*erukāṭu-ūru* (*eru* + *kāṭu* + *ūru*) (cf. LT *erukkāṭṭūr*) 52.1.b-c