Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s30.t3: 7.27.3 Fourth case (dative)
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s30.t3
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7.27.3 Fourth case (dative)
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The dative case suffix is *-ku* with the meanings 'to, for'. The following are the occurrences in the Corpus:
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*kuv-aṉ-kē* 'to Kuvaṉ' 1.2.c (-*kē* < *ku* + *ē*, emphatic particle).
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*ko(ṭ)ṭal-ku* 'for carving' 12.2
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*mēṟcēri-ku* 'for Mēṟcēri' 112.2
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*teṉ-ku* 'southern' (lit., 'to the south') 49.5.a
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Cf. *teṟku* 'south' where the dative suffix *-ku* denoting direction gets fused with the stem .
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*mattirai-kē* 'of Matirai' 38.1
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The dative suffix *-ku* occurs in the possessive-locative sense; the emphatic particle *-ē* indicates that all the persons belong to the same place. See Commentary (38.1).
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Tamil legends on the Sātavāhana portrait coins employ the dative suffix *-ku* for the genitive. See section 5.15.3 for discussion.