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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t4: 7.20.4 Common nouns (n.)

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t4

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7.20.4 Common nouns (n.)

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These are included in the Inscriptional Glossary (Appendix I) and again in the Etymological Indexes (Appendices IV-VI).

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| **Monosyllabic stems** | | | | VCVC: | | | |
| V: | *a-* | 'that' | 45.3.a | | *akaḻ* | 'tank, moat' | 76.3.a |
| | *i-* | 'this' | 13.3 | VCCVC: | | | |
| | *o* | 'to be agreeable' | 79.1.a | | *antay* | 'honorific (masc.) | 77.2.b |
| V̄: | *ā* | 'to be' | 41.2 | CVCV: | | | |
| | *ī* | 'to give' | 12.3 | | *piṟa* | 'to be born' | 49.3 |
| VC: | *il* | 'in, place' | 33.1.b | | *puli* | 'tiger' | 118.1.b |
| | *uḷ* | 'inside' | 60.2.b | | *veḷi* | 'open space' | 7.1.b |
| | *em* | 'our' | 19.1 | CV̄CV: | | | |
| V̄C: | *ūr* | 'village' | 19.2 | | *kōḻi* | 'cock' | 112.5 |
| CV̄: | *kā* | 'to protect' | 58.2 | | *cēri* | 'hamlet' | 112.2.b |
| | *kō* | 'king' | 61.6 | CVCCV: | | | |
| CVC: | *kal* | 'stone' | 61.15 | | *paḷḷi* | 'hermitage' | 83.6 |
| | *cey* | 'to make' | 49.7 | CVCVC: | | | |
| | *nel* | 'paddy' | 16.5 | | *kaṭal* | 'sea' | 1.7.a |
| | *poṉ* | 'gold' | 36.2.a | | *pokaḻ* | 'fame' | 83.1.b |
| CV̄C: | *kōṇ* | 'chief' | 73.4 | **Stems with three syllables** | | | |
| | *nīr* | 'water(course)' | 120.2.a | VCVCV: | | | |
| | *nōl* | 'to do penance' | 115.7 | | *erumi* | 'buffalo' | 49.1.a |
| | *mēl* | 'western' | 112.2.a | CVCVCV: | | | |
| **Stems with two syllables** | | | | | *muciṟi* | 'a place name' | 56.3 |
| VCV: | *aṇi* | 'that which is joined' | 44.2.b | CVCVCVC: | | | |
| | *iḷa-* | 'young' | 17.1.a | | *matiray* | 'a place name' | 36.1 |
| V̄CV: | *ēri* | 'lake' | 60.4 | | | | |
| VCCV: | | | | | | | |
| | *aṇṇi* | 'honorific (fem.)' | 83.4.c | | | | |
| | | | | (V: short vowel; V̄: long vowel; C: consonant) | | | |

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Table 7.3. Syllabic structure of stems in the Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus.