Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s33.t1: 7.30.1 PNG suffixes of participial nouns
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s33.t1
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7.30.1 PNG suffixes of participial nouns
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PNG suffixes are added to participial nouns to indicate person, number and gender as in the case of nouns and pronouns. The addition of PNG suffixes to the participial nouns in the Corpus is illustrated below.
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7.30.1.1 *Third person masculine singular
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| *-avaṉ* | *ittavaṉ* | 'he who gave' | 12.3 |
| *-āṉ* | *ceyvittāṉ* | 'he who caused to be made' | 88.2 |
| | *ceyitāṉ* | 'he who made' | 73.7 |
| *-ōṉ* | *koṭṭupi(t)tōṉ* | 'he who caused to be carved' | 8.3 |
| | *ve(p)pōṉ* (LT *vaippōṉ*) | 'he who has endowed' | 13.4 |
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7.30.1.2 *Third person human (epicene) plural
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| *-avar* | *cētavar* | 'they who made' | 35.3 |
| *-ōr* | *ko(t)ti-ōr* | 'they who carved' | 6.3 |