Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t5: 7.20.5 Appellative nouns
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t5
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7.20.5 Appellative nouns
c27.s23.t5.1
Appellative nouns form a special category of nouns in Tamil to express various qualities or properties. They are derived from noun-, verb- or adjectival stems by the addition of pronominal (PNG) suffixes. Most of the appellative nouns in the Corpus serve as personal names (see section 4.19.1). Some of the appellative nouns occur as common nouns:
c27.s23.t5.2
| *iḷayar* | 'young persons' (clan title) < *iḷamai* 'youth' | 49.6 |
| *kiḻār* | 'owner (honorific singular)' < *kiḻa-mai* 'ownership' | 84.2 |
| *paṇa-aṉ* | 'servant' < *paṇ* 'to work' | 1.6 |
| *parampaṉ* | 'cultivator' < *parampu* 'to flatten land for cultivation, land so flattened' | 84.1.a |
| *poṉ-kolvaṉ* | 'goldsmith' < *kol* 'smith, blacksmith' | 36.2 |
| *ta(c)caṉ* | 'carpenter, stonemason '< *taccu* 'carpentry, stone masonry' | 73.8, 117.3.b |
| *nikama(t)tōr* | 'members of a merchant guild' < *nikamam* 'merchant guild' | 6.2. |
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