Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s31.t2: 7.28.2 Transitive and intransitive verbs
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s31.t2
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7.28.2 Transitive and intransitive verbs
c27.s31.t2.1
Transitive verbs can have objects, intransitive verbs cannot. The verb stems occurring in the Corpus may be classified accordingly as follows:
c27.s31.t2.3
*aṟu*, *ī*, *ēvu*, *karu(v)u* / *karu(k)ku*, *koṭṭu*, *koṭu* / *kuṭu*, *ko(ṟ)ṟu*,
*cey* / *ceyi* / *cē*, *tā*, *tai*, *toṭu*, *nōl*, *puṇaru*, *muṭi*, *ve* / *vai*
c27.s31.t2.5
*ama*, *ā* / *āku*, *āṭu*, *āru*, *piṟa*
c27.s31.t2.6
The preponderance of transitive verbs in the Corpus is apparently due to the votive context of the inscriptions which mostly record the giving or making of gifts or performing religious or charitable acts.