Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s34: 7.31 Verbal nouns

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s34

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7.31 Verbal nouns

c27.s34.1

Verbal nouns (*toḻil peyar*) are formed from verb stems. They function like nouns and can have case-markers. The following verbal nouns occur in the Corpus:

c27.s34.2

| *ko(ṭ)tal-ku* (*koṭṭu* + *al* + *ku*) 'for carving' (with dative case suffix) | 12.2 |

c27.s34.3

*pokal* (LT *pukal*) 'refuge' (105.1.b) and *tuṟukay* 'vent (in sluice)' (114.1) are formally verbal nouns; but they do not signify action and occur as nouns in the Corpus.