Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s23.t5.2

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. |