Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t5.1
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t5.1
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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: